Mapping Historic Burial Sites

The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) is committed to planning and implementing 24 projects that avoid, mitigate, or eliminate negative impacts to cultural and historical resources important 25 to North Carolina communities. RP2025-11 -“Cemetery Mapping”, the project team engaged state 26 officials, historic preservation experts, and local communities in a county-level case study (Edgecombe 27 County) to increase NCDOT’s abilities to acknowledge, protect, and preserve known and unmapped 28 burial sites, and to engage current community members in these efforts. Project results included 29 expanding mapping datasets for cemeteries and burial sites, researching and compiling common 30 characteristics of historic burial sites, designing and implementing a community engagement 31 methodology, and identifying relevant procedural and systemic factors that affect the preservation of NC 32 burial sites. ​

• Record URL:
  • https://connect.ncdot.gov/projects/research/Pages/ProjDetails.aspx?ProjectID=TT%202027-01

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $200,000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  TT 2027-01

• Sponsor Organizations:

  North Carolina Department of Transportation

  Research and Development
  1549 Mail Service Center
  Raleigh, NC  United States  27699-1549
• Managing Organizations:

  North Carolina Department of Transportation

  Research and Development
  1549 Mail Service Center
  Raleigh, NC  United States  27699-1549
• Project Managers:

  Gunthrop, Logan

• Performing Organizations:

  North Carolina State University, Raleigh

  Institute for Transportation Research and Education
  Campus Box 8601
  Raleigh, NC  United States  27695-8601
• Principal Investigators:

  Boone, Kofi

• Start Date: 20260701
• Expected Completion Date: 20280630
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: Transportation, Planning, Research, and Development

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Historic preservation; Historic sites; Mapping
• Geographic Terms: North Carolina
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; History; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 02004649
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: North Carolina Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: TT 2027-01
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Sep 30 2026 10:18AM