Crossings / North Carolina
North Carolina
crossings.
Cities11310+ crossings each
Public crossings2,321at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates61%696 with no active device
Reported incidents305Form 57, since 2016
The federal crossing inventory lists 2,321 public at-grade crossings across the 113 North Carolina cities with at least ten of them. Charlotte has the most at 140.
Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates the most of them at 829, ahead of CSX Transportation at 681.
30% of those crossings carry no active warning device (crossbucks, a stop sign or nothing recorded) against 61% with gates.
Crossing counts follow how much track runs through a place, not how busy or how loud it is. A city with many short industrial spurs will list more crossings than one with a single mainline carrying far more trains.
Every North Carolina city on the inventory
| City | County | Crossings | Gated | Quiet zone | Incidents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte | Mecklenburg | 140 | 60% | 2 | 51 |
| Fayetteville | Cumberland | 95 | 52% | 0 | 13 |
| Greensboro | Guilford | 62 | 66% | 0 | 26 |
| Goldsboro | Wayne | 56 | 73% | 0 | 5 |
| Lumberton | Robeson | 52 | 48% | 0 | 6 |
| Wilmington | New Hanover | 47 | 47% | 0 | 6 |
| Durham | Durham | 46 | 83% | 0 | 33 |
| Gastonia | Gaston | 45 | 33% | 1 | 17 |
| Greenville | Pitt | 40 | 83% | 0 | 2 |
| Morehead City | Carteret | 38 | 21% | 0 | 1 |
| Statesville | Iredell | 38 | 63% | 0 | 2 |
| Rocky Mount | Nash | 37 | 95% | 7 | 8 |
| Thomasville | Davidson | 33 | 76% | 0 | 5 |
| Kinston | Lenoir | 32 | 78% | 0 | 8 |
| Wilson | Wilson | 32 | 84% | 0 | 9 |
| Mooresville | Iredell | 29 | 45% | 0 | 1 |
| Asheville | Buncombe | 28 | 79% | 1 | 3 |
| Raeford | Hoke | 28 | 29% | 0 | 0 |
| High Point | Guilford | 27 | 56% | 0 | 6 |
| Laurinburg | Scotland | 27 | 59% | 0 | 1 |
| Raleigh | Wake | 27 | 85% | 0 | 6 |
| Asheboro | Randolph | 26 | 62% | 0 | 1 |
| Salisbury | Rowan | 26 | 69% | 3 | 6 |
| Roanoke Rapids | Halifax | 25 | 72% | 0 | 0 |
| Sanford | Lee | 25 | 52% | 0 | 2 |
| Denton | Davidson | 24 | 46% | 0 | 4 |
| Henderson | Vance | 23 | 74% | 0 | 2 |
| Hickory | Catawba | 23 | 83% | 0 | 0 |
| Walkertown | Forsyth | 23 | 61% | 0 | 3 |
| Pembroke | Robeson | 22 | 91% | 0 | 10 |
| Winston Salem | Forsyth | 22 | 45% | 0 | 0 |
| Aberdeen | Moore | 21 | 38% | 0 | 1 |
| Waynesville | Haywood | 21 | 81% | 0 | 1 |
| Hamlet | Richmond | 20 | 85% | 0 | 0 |
| Robbins | Moore | 20 | 30% | 0 | 0 |
| Sylva | Jackson | 20 | 45% | 0 | 0 |
| Archdale | Randolph | 19 | 74% | 0 | 1 |
| Bryson City | Swain | 19 | 53% | 0 | 0 |
| Lexington | Davidson | 19 | 84% | 0 | 7 |
| Oxford | Granville | 19 | 26% | 0 | 0 |
| Marion | McDowell | 18 | 94% | 0 | 0 |
| Mount Holly | Gaston | 18 | 56% | 0 | 1 |
| Chadbourn | Columbus | 17 | 41% | 0 | 0 |
| Lillington | Harnett | 17 | 59% | 0 | 0 |
| Star | Montgomery | 17 | 35% | 0 | 0 |
| Tarboro | Edgecombe | 17 | 35% | 0 | 1 |
| Liberty | Randolph | 16 | 44% | 0 | 0 |
| Maxton | Robeson | 16 | 81% | 0 | 3 |
| Plymouth | Washington | 16 | 56% | 0 | 0 |
| Selma | Johnston | 16 | 94% | 0 | 2 |
| St Pauls | Robeson | 16 | 6% | 0 | 0 |
| Vanceboro | Craven | 16 | 81% | 0 | 1 |
| Cary | Wake | 15 | 100% | 0 | 2 |
| East Laurinburg | Scotland | 15 | 20% | 0 | 0 |
| Elizabeth City | Pasquotank | 15 | 47% | 0 | 0 |
| Fuquay Varina | Wake | 15 | 93% | 0 | 0 |
| Kernersville | Forsyth | 15 | 87% | 0 | 5 |
| Monroe | Union | 15 | 100% | 0 | 7 |
| New Bern | Craven | 15 | 53% | 6 | 2 |
| Norwood | Stanly | 15 | 80% | 0 | 0 |
| Rockingham | Richmond | 15 | 40% | 0 | 1 |
| Troy | Montgomery | 15 | 33% | 0 | 0 |
| Warsaw | Duplin | 15 | 67% | 0 | 2 |
| Bethel | Pitt | 14 | 50% | 0 | 1 |
| Leland | Brunswick | 14 | 43% | 0 | 0 |
| Lincolnton | Lincoln | 14 | 93% | 0 | 0 |
| Welcome | Davidson | 14 | 79% | 0 | 0 |
| Belmont | Gaston | 13 | 38% | 0 | 1 |
| Candor | Montgomery | 13 | 23% | 0 | 0 |
| Dunn | Harnett | 13 | 100% | 0 | 2 |
| Forest City | Rutherford | 13 | 54% | 0 | 1 |
| Hendersonville | Henderson | 13 | 69% | 0 | 0 |
| Jamesville | Martin | 13 | 62% | 0 | 0 |
| La Grange | Lenoir | 13 | 92% | 0 | 0 |
| Mount Airy | Surry | 13 | 38% | 0 | 0 |
| Pantego | Beaufort | 13 | 15% | 0 | 0 |
| Wagram | Scotland | 13 | 15% | 0 | 0 |
| Cherryville | Gaston | 12 | 100% | 0 | 0 |
| Dundarrach | Hoke | 12 | 67% | 0 | 1 |
| Fair Bluff | Columbus | 12 | 17% | 0 | 0 |
| Newton | Catawba | 12 | 50% | 0 | 0 |
| Oakboro | Stanly | 12 | 67% | 0 | 0 |
| Pleasant Garden | Guilford | 12 | 67% | 0 | 0 |
| Stovall | Granville | 12 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Tabor City | Columbus | 12 | 17% | 0 | 0 |
| Washington | Beaufort | 12 | 75% | 0 | 1 |
| Weldon | Halifax | 12 | 58% | 0 | 0 |
| Winterville | Pitt | 12 | 92% | 0 | 0 |
| Chocowinity | Beaufort | 11 | 91% | 0 | 1 |
| Farmville | Pitt | 11 | 82% | 0 | 0 |
| Havelock | Craven | 11 | 82% | 0 | 2 |
| Huntersville | Mecklenburg | 11 | 55% | 0 | 0 |
| Mebane | Alamance | 11 | 73% | 0 | 5 |
| Mount Olive | Wayne | 11 | 82% | 0 | 0 |
| Newport | Carteret | 11 | 64% | 0 | 2 |
| Reidsville | Rockingham | 11 | 82% | 0 | 3 |
| Rockwell | Rowan | 11 | 55% | 0 | 0 |
| Siler City | Chatham | 11 | 64% | 0 | 0 |
| Spring Hope | Nash | 11 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Stanley | Gaston | 11 | 100% | 0 | 1 |
| Bessemer City | Gaston | 10 | 80% | 0 | 5 |
| Black Mountain | Buncombe | 10 | 70% | 0 | 0 |
| Clayton | Johnston | 10 | 100% | 0 | 2 |
| Cleveland | Rowan | 10 | 60% | 0 | 1 |
| Colon | Lee | 10 | 80% | 0 | 1 |
| Glendon | Moore | 10 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Hiddenite | Alexander | 10 | 50% | 0 | 0 |
| King | Stokes | 10 | 80% | 0 | 0 |
| Mount Gilead | Montgomery | 10 | 50% | 0 | 0 |
| Pilot Mountain | Surry | 10 | 30% | 0 | 0 |
| Roxboro | Person | 10 | 20% | 0 | 0 |
| Southern Pines | Moore | 10 | 100% | 0 | 1 |
| Stony Point | Alexander | 10 | 20% | 0 | 0 |
Only cities with at least ten public at-grade crossings appear here. A city missing from this table has fewer, not none.