North Carolina Highway 99

North Carolina Highway 99
North Carolina Highway 99
Route information
	Maintained by NCDOT
Length	33.3 mi (53.6 km)
Major junctions
South end	NC 92 / NC 306 near Bayview
	US 264 in Belhaven
North end	NC 32 / NC 45 near Plymouth
Location
Country	United States
State	North Carolina
Counties	Beaufort, Hyde, Washington
Highway system
	North Carolina Highway System; Interstate; US; State; Scenic;

North Carolina Highway 99 (NC 99) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina in the central Coastal Plain region of the state.

Route description

History

NC 99 was created in the early-1930s, being routed over a previously unnumbered road in Beaufort County. The road ran north from US 264 to a modern-day secondary road (which, at that time, was the first incarnation of NC 97).

Around the late-1930s, the highway's current alignment began to take shape. The original NC 99 was reassigned as an extension of NC 32, and NC 99 was given its current assignment as a state highway through Beaufort County, Hyde County, and Washington County. The southern terminus was originally at US 264 in Pantego.

In the mid-1980s, NC 99 was extended along US 264 and the former NC 92 to its current southern terminus in Bayview, (at NC 306). By this time, the northernmost few miles of NC 99 had been concurrent with NC 45. These two highways divide in Union Grove, and NC 45 continues southward to US 264 in Hyde County.

Junction list

County	Location	mi^[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Beaufort	Rest Haven	0.0	0.0	NC 92 west / NC 306 south (Bayview-Aurora Ferry) – Bath, Aurora	Eastern terminus of NC 92; Northern terminus of NC 306
	Belhaven	11.4	18.3	US 264 east / US 264 Bus. east (Main Street) – Swan Quarter	Southern end of US 264 concurrency; Western terminus of US 264 Bus.
	Pantego	15.1	24.3	US 264 west (Main Street) – Washington	Northern end of US 264 concurrency
	Union Grove	22.0	35.4	NC 45 south – Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge	Southern end of NC 45 concurrency
Hyde	No major junctions
Washington		33.3	53.6	NC 32 north / NC 45 – Washington, Plymouth	Northern end of NC 45 concurrency; south end of NC 32 overlap
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus