North Carolina Highway 61

North Carolina Highway 61 (NC 61) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It serves as the main north–south highway in eastern Guilford County, connecting Whitsett and Gibsonville.

North Carolina Highway 61
Route information
Maintained by NCDOT
Length	19.8 mi[1] (31.9 km)
Existed	1930–present
Major junctions
South end	NC 62 near Alamance
Major intersections	I-40 / I-85 in Whitsett US 70 in Whitsett
North end	NC 150 in Osceola
Location
Country	United States
State	North Carolina
Counties	Guilford
Highway system
North Carolina Highway System Interstate US State Scenic
← NC 60 → NC 62

Route description

NC 61 is a two-lane rural highway from NC 62, located between Julian and Alamance, to NC 150, in Osceola. Serving primary as a farm-to-market, it connects the farms in eastern Guilford County with Whitsett and Gibsonville.

History

Established in 1930 as a new primary routing, it traversed from NC 109, in Thomasville, to NC 60, in Julian.^[2] In 1936, NC 61 was extended northeast to US 70, near Whitsett. In 1940, NC 61 was truncated at its current southern terminus, its former routing south to Thomasville replaced by NC 62.^[3] In 1961, NC 61 was extended on new primary routing north and onto NC 100 to Gibsonville; there, it continued north to its current northern terminus at NC 150, in Osceola.^[4]

Major intersections

The entire route is in Guilford County.

Location	mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
​	0.0	0.0	NC 62 – Burlington, Julian, High Point	Western terminus
Whitsett	6.3	10.1	I-40 / I-85 – Burlington, Greensboro
	7.4	11.9	US 70 (Burlington Road) – Burlington, Greensboro
	8.2	13.2	NC 100 west	West end of NC 100 overlap
Gibsonville	10.0	16.1	NC 100 east (Main Street) – Elon	East end of NC 100 overlap
Osceola	19.8	31.9	NC 150 (Burlington Road) – Brown Summit	Eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus