North Carolina Highway 180
# North Carolina Highway 180

North Carolina Highway 180 (NC 180) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The highway serves as a bypass east of Shelby, serving as an alternate through route of NC 18.

## Route description

NC 180 is a two-lane rural highway that traverses 12 miles (19 km) from NC 18, near the South Carolina state line, through the town of Patterson Springs, where it meets briefly with NC 226. Continuing north, it passes through Eastern Shelby, crossing US 74, then heads back to NC 18, north of Shelby.

## History

Established in 1952, as a mostly new primary route around Shelby, and has not changed since. The first NC 180 was from 1932-1952, connecting the communities of Polkville to Fallston; it was renumbered as an extension of NC 182.

## Junction list

The entire route is in Cleveland County.

| Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| ​ | 0.0 | 0.0 | NC 18 (Lafayette Street) / Mt. Sinai Church Road – Gaffney, Shelby | |
| Patterson Springs | 2.6 | 4.2 | NC 198 south (Blacksburg Road) – Earl, Blacksburg | Northern terminus of NC 198 |
| Patterson Springs | 3.6 | 5.8 | NC 226 south (Cleveland Avenue) – Grover | South end of NC 226 overlap |
| ​ | 5.1 | 8.2 | NC 226 north (Earl Road) | North end of NC 226 overlap |
| Shelby | 6.6 | 10.6 | US 74 (Dixon Boulevard) – Kings Mountain, Asheville | |
| Shelby | 7.4 | 11.9 | US 74 Bus. (East Marion Street) – Shelby, Kings Mountain | |
| Shelby | 9.7 | 15.6 | NC 150 (Cherryville Road) – Shelby, Cherryville | |
| ​ | 12.0 | 19.3 | NC 18 (Fallston Road) – Fallston, Shelby | |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus |||||
