Interstate 81 | DisamKB

Interstate 81

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Interstate Highway

Interstate 81 is a major north–south U.S. highway running primarily through the Appalachian region from Tennessee to the Canadian border in New York, serving as a key freight and travel corridor.

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Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Interstate Highway →
avoids	major East Coast urban centers →
connectsTo	Interstate 40 NERFINISHED → Interstate 64 NERFINISHED → Interstate 66 → Interstate 70 NERFINISHED → Interstate 76 NERFINISHED → Interstate 78 NERFINISHED → Interstate 80 → Interstate 84 NERFINISHED → Interstate 86 NERFINISHED → Interstate 88 NERFINISHED → Interstate 90 →
country	United States →
direction	north–south →
follows	Appalachian Mountains →
highwayNumber	81 →
highwayType	Interstate Highway →
laneConfiguration	mostly four-lane divided highway →
maintainedBy	state departments of transportation →
opened	1960s →
parallelTo	Interstate 95 →
partOf	Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways →
passesThrough	Binghamton, New York → Bristol, Tennessee → Carlisle, Pennsylvania → Chambersburg, Pennsylvania → Hagerstown, Maryland → Harrisburg, Pennsylvania → Harrisonburg, Virginia → Knoxville metropolitan area → Roanoke, Virginia → Scranton, Pennsylvania → Syracuse, New York → Watertown, New York NERFINISHED → Winchester, Virginia →
region	Appalachian region →
role	major freight corridor → major travel corridor →
state	Maryland → New York → Pennsylvania → Tennessee → Virginia → West Virginia →
terminusNorth	Canadian border → Wellesley Island, New York →
terminusSouth	Dandridge, Tennessee → Interstate 40 NERFINISHED →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Interstate 80 →	connectsTo
Shenandoah River ("Interstate 81 (via its forks and tributaries in the valley)") →	crossedBy
West Virginia Route 9 ("Interstate 81 in Berkeley County, West Virginia") →	intersects
Interstate 66 →	junctionWith
Martinsburg, West Virginia →	servedBy
Shenandoah Valley →	traversedBy