North Carolina Highway 96

NC 96
Route information
Maintained by NCDOT
Length:	112 mi (180 km)
Existed:	1940/1952 – present
Major junctions
North end:	SR 96 / SR 49 at the Virginia border in Virgilina
	US 158 in Oxford US 15 in Oxford I-85 in Oxford US 1in Youngsville US 401 near Rolesville US 64 / US 264 in Zebulon US 301 in Selma and Smithfield US 70 between Selma I-95 near Four Oaks I-40
South end:	NC 55 west of Newton Grove, North Carolina
Location
Counties:	Granville, Wake, Johnston
Highway system
North Carolina Highway System ← NC 94 NC 97 →

NC 96 is a North Carolinian state highway that is continuation of Virginia's State Route 96. The Virginia route is signed east/west while the NC route is signed north/south.. It is mostly a rural highway linking several small-to-medium sized towns in central North Carolina. Like many NC routes, it has numerous concurrencies with other highways, including NC 49 which also continues across the Virginia border, US 158 and US 15 in Oxford, US 301 in Smithfield and Selma, and US 701.

History

NC 96 is the second route to bear number 96. The first route was originally NC 562. It got its modern number in 1940, when border-crossing routes were renumbered to match their Virginia counterparts. The original routing ended at North Carolina Highway 56. It was extended in 1952 to its current terminus.

Major intersections

County	Location	Destinations	Notes
Sampson	West of Newton Grove	NC 55 (Harnett-Dunn Highway) – Dunn, Mount Olive	Southern terminus
Johnston	Peacocks Crossroads	NC 50 – Newton Grove, Benson
		I-40 (James E. Harrington Freeway) – Raleigh, Wilmington	Diamond interchange; Exit 334
	Four Oaks	I-95 / US 301 south / US 701 south – Fayetteville, Rocky Mount, Dunn, Newton Grove	Exit 90; South end of concurrency with US 301; Northern terminus of US 701
	Smithfield	US 70 Bus. (Market Street) to NC 210 south – Lillington, Fayetteville
	Selma	US 70 / NC 39 – Clayton, Princeton	Southern terminus of NC 39; South end of concurrency with NC 39
		US 301 north / NC 39 north (Pollock Street) – Emit, Micro	North end of concurrency with US 301 and NC 39
	Jordan	NC 42 – Clayton, Stancils Chapel
	Hocutts Crossroads	NC 231 – Wendell, Emit
Wake	Zebulon	US 64 Bus. / NC 97 (Gannon Avenue) – Lizard Lick, Rocky Mount
		US 64 / US 264 – Raleigh, Cary, Spring Hope, Bailey	Partial diamond interchange
	Rolesville	US 401 (Louisburg Road) – Raleigh, Louisburg
		NC 98 (Wait Avenue) – Wake Forest, Bunn
Franklin	Youngsville	US 1 Alt. south (Youngsville Boulevard) – Wake Forest	South end of concurrency with Alternate US 1
		US 1 Alt. north (Park Avenue)	North end of concurrency with Alternate US 1
		US 1 – Raliegh, Henderson
Granville	Wilton	NC 56 – Creedmoor, Franklinton
	Oxford	I-85 – Durham, Henderson	Diamond interchange; Exit 204
		US 15 south (Hillsboro Street) – Creedmoor	South end of concurrency with US 15
		US 158 east (Williamsboro Street) – Henderson, Norlina	South end of concurrency with US 158
		US 15 north (College Street) – Stovall	North end of concurrency with US 15
		US 158 west (Roxboro Road) – Roxboro	North end of concurrency with US 158
		US 15 / US 158 (Oxford Outer Loop)	Oxford truck route
		NC 49 south – Roxboro, Burlington	South end on concurrency with NC 49
Virginia state line		SR 49 / SR 96 (Red Bank Road) – Virgilina	Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi      Concurrency terminus •      Closed/former •      Incomplete access •      Unopened

Sources

• NCRoads.com Annex (NC95-NC99) [1]
• State-ends.com [2]
• NCRoads.com Annex (NC95-NC99) [3]