Interstate 95 South - Smithfield to Benson

U.S. 70 through Smithfield was redesignated as U.S. 70 Business with the opening of the Smithfield bypass by 1992.¹

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One half mile north of the parclo interchange (Exit 95) with U.S. 70 Business (Market Street) at Smithfield.

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U.S. 70 Business converges with U.S. 70 east in 3.2 miles en route to Princeton and Goldsboro. Downtown Smithfield and U.S. 301/NC 96 is 0.9 miles to the west.

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Benson, the crossroads with Interstate 40, is 15 miles to the southwest. Dunn, a city of less than 10,000, is seven miles further.

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Brogden Road (SR 1007) branches south from 3rd Street in Smithfield to meet I-95 at a parclo B2 interchange (Exit 93) in three quarters of a mile.

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Brogden Road meanders east to Brogden and Old Smithfield Road east to NC 581 near Quaker Neck Lake.

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Interstate 95 south at Exit 93 with Brogden Road (SR 1007). SR 1007 extends 0.64 miles north to U.S. 301/NC 96 (Brightleaf Boulevard) in Smithfield.

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Interstate 95 advances southwest from Smithfield to cross the Neuse River on the ensuing stretch.

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U.S. 301, U.S. 701 north and NC 96 converge with Interstate 95 at Exit 90 by Holts Lake.

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U.S. 701 travels 172 miles overall between Exit 90 and Georgetown, South Carolina.

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A loop ramp joins I-95 south to U.S. 301/NC 96 north to Smithfield, U.S. 301 south to Four Oaks and U.S. 701 south to Bentonville Battleground and Newton Grove. NC 96 also branches southwest to Blackmon Crossroads, I-40 at Exit 334 and NC 55.

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NC 96 briefly runs alongside I-95 from U.S. 701 west 1.21 miles to Brewer Road (SR 1225), where it turns south to Blackmon Crossroads.

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A diamond interchange (Exit 87) joins I-95 south with Keen Road (SR 1178) at the town of Four Oaks 1.5 miles ahead.

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Benson lies ten miles to the southwest via NC 50 from Exit 79. I-95 and U.S. 301 proceed southwest from there to Dunn in 17 miles.

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Keen Road leads 0.4 miles north from Exit 87 to U.S. 301 (Wellons Street) in Four Oaks.

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Southeast from Exit 87, Keen Road (SR 1178) continues 0.75 miles to NC 96 and 2.41 miles to U.S. 701.

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Interstate 95 proceeds southwest 5.6 miles from Exit 87 to the exchange with I-40.

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Southbound sign posted five miles north of Benson and 38 miles from Fayetteville.

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I-40 and I-95 come together at a cloverstack interchange (Exits 81A/B) in two miles.

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Interstate 40 travels south from Raleigh to Wilmington, and 420 miles west across the state from the Atlantic Coastal Plain to the Great Smokey Mountains and Pigeon River Gorge into Tennessee.

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Interstate 40 heads 26 miles north from Exit 81A to I-87/440 at Raleigh. This stretch of freeway opened in 1989.

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Interstate 95 south at Exit 81A. I-40 originally ended in Greensboro, but was extended east alongside I-85 to Durham in 1968 and southeast on a bypass of Durham to Raleigh in the 1980s.

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Interstate 40 extends 92 miles south from Exit 81B to Wilmington. Connections with U.S. 701 at Newton Grove lead motorists south to Clinton. I-40 was completed in the state on June 29, 1990.

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A third southbound lane accompanies I-95 south from I-40 east to Exit 79 to NC 50/242 (E Main Street) in Benson.

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NC 27 originates in Downtown Benson at the intersection with U.S. 301 (Wall Street) and NC 50 (Main Street). 197 miles in length, NC 27 ventures west from Coats and Lillington en route to Albemarle, Charlotte and Toluca.

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NC 50/242 overlap for 0.7 miles from Exit 79 to U.S. 301 in Benson. South from town, NC 242 leads 13 miles to Spivey's Corner while NC 50 parallels I-40 southeast to Newton Grove.

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U.S. 421 joins Interstate 95 south with the city of Dunn in six miles.

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Several overpasses spanning I-95 between Benson and Godwin are below the Interstate standard of 16 feet. Started in January 2020, widening of I-95 from I-40 south to Business Loop I-95 near Fayetteville removes remaining substandard bridges.

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Hodges Chapel Road (SR 1709) meanders 1.47 miles south from NC 27, west of Benson, to a diamond interchange (Exit 77) with Interstate 95.

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Crossing Mingo Swamp, I-95 south enters eastern reaches of Harnett County.

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Built in 1955, the forthcoming overpass for Jonesboro Road (SR 1808) is substandard.

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Exit 77 is the first of six closely spaced interchanges in Harnett County. Hodges Chapel Road (SR 1709) continues 0.80 miles south from I-95 to Jonesboro Road.

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