Developed land accounts for about 86% of the surrounding area.
- Developed land: 86.4%
- Woodland: 13.6%
Railroad crossing 716238L on OATES RD in Bessemer City, North Carolina
The federal record lists a public crossing on OATES RD in Bessemer City, North Carolina. The reported railroad is Norfolk Southern Railway Company.
Overview
Crossing716238L
OATES RD
Bessemer City, Gaston County, North Carolina
Norfolk Southern Railway Company
Source retrieved Source details
- Road traffic
- 1,941 vehicles / dayRoad count: counted 2024 · 2 years old. About traffic counts and years
- Reported trains
- 16 / dayThese reported movements are not arrival times.
Location
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- Source latitude
- 35.2877299
- Source longitude
- -81.2443599
Traffic
- Road traffic
- 1,941 vehicles / day
- Road count year
- 2024counted 2024 · 2 years old
- Reported train total
- 16 / day
- Daytime trains
- 6 / day
- Nighttime trains
- 8 / day
- Switching trains
- 2 / day
- Passenger trains
- 2 / day
- School bus route
- Yes
- School-bus passes
- 8 / school day
- Maximum rail speed
- 79 mph
- Road speed limit
- 35 mph
The daily train total combines reported daytime, nighttime and switching movements. These reported movements are not arrival times. How reported train totals work. A school bus that crosses and returns counts as two passes on a normal school day.
Equipment
- Gate arms
- 2
- Flashing-light pairs
- 5
- Crossbuck assemblies
- 0
- Stop signs
- 0
How warning equipment is recorded
- Main tracks
- 1
- Quiet-zone source value
- No
All equipment counts are reported. Zero is shown only when the source reports zero.
Open the federal crossing recordIncidents
- Reports
- 2
- People injured
- 0
- People killed
- 0
| Year | Reports | Injured | Killed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Projects
Project documents
No reviewed document names this crossing
The reviewed sources do not name this crossing. Other projects may exist.
Surroundings
The surrounding landscape
Nearby land cover
The 2025 estimates cover roughly 10 hectares around each crossing.
Population and climate nearby
- Modeled population in this map cell
- 324 · WorldPop 2025
- Regional surface elevation
- 249 m
- Average annual air temperature
- 15 °C
- Average annual rain & snow
- 1,222 mm/year
Regional sample 5.5 km from the reported crossing location. Climate averages cover 1979–2020.
What these figures describe
Population in the map cell comes from a 2025 WorldPop model, grouped into a hexagon containing the reported crossing coordinate. It is not a count of people who use the crossing. Unavailable estimates remain unknown.
Regional values use the nearest sample at roughly 5 km scale. Elevation dates from 2011–2015. They do not describe exact conditions at the crossing.
Sources and methods ↗Nearby records
These records are within 5 km of the reported location. Distances are straight-line estimates.