Developed land accounts for about 100% of the surrounding area.
- Developed land: 100.0%
Railroad crossing 720255J on HOSPITAL ROAD in Sylva, North Carolina
The federal record lists a public crossing on HOSPITAL ROAD in Sylva, North Carolina. The reported railroad is BLUE RIDGE SOUTHERN RAILROAD.
Overview
Crossing720255J
HOSPITAL ROAD
Sylva, Jackson County, North Carolina
BLUE RIDGE SOUTHERN RAILROAD
Source retrieved Source details
- Road traffic
- 1,875 vehicles / dayRoad count: counted 2014 · 12 years old. About traffic counts and years
- Reported trains
- 2 / dayThese reported movements are not arrival times.
Location
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- Source latitude
- 35.38949
- Source longitude
- -83.206001
Traffic
- Road traffic
- 1,875 vehicles / day
- Road count year
- 2014counted 2014 · 12 years old
- Reported train total
- 2 / day
- Daytime trains
- 2 / day
- Nighttime trains
- 0 / day
- Switching trains
- 0 / day
- Passenger trains
- 0 / day
- School bus route
- Yes
- School-bus passes
- 6 / school day
- Maximum rail speed
- 10 mph
- Road speed limit
- 25 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
- 9
- 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
No incident report was matched to this crossing in the available records from 2016 through July 2026. Earlier or unreported incidents may not be included.
Open the federal incident recordsProjects
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
- 263 · WorldPop 2025
- Regional surface elevation
- 1,259 m
- Average annual air temperature
- 10.9 °C
- Average annual rain & snow
- 1,482 mm/year
Regional sample 5.3 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.