Virginia State Route 114
State highway in southwestern Virginia, US
State Route 114 is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. Known as Peppers Ferry Road, the state highway runs 10.32 miles (16.61 km) from U.S. Route 11 (US 11) in Fairlawn east to US 460 in Christiansburg. SR 114 is the northernmost of three east–west highways between Radford and Christiansburg and the most direct highway between Radford and Blacksburg. The state highway also connects those cities with the Radford Army Ammunition Plant.
Route description
SR 114 begins at an intersection with US 11 (Lee Highway) in Fairlawn, a community in Pulaski County located across the New River from the city of Radford. The state highway heads east as a five-lane road with a center left-turn lane through a commercial corridor. East of this area, SR 114 transitions into a four-lane divided highway for a short distance before the westbound lanes merge onto the eastbound carriageway.
The highway continues east as a two-lane, two-way road utilizing the southern of two carriageways; the northern carriageway remains unused. SR 114 maintains this configuration until it reaches the New River, where the two-lane road crosses a bridge closely paralleled by a defunct through truss bridge to the north. Once in Montgomery County, the state highway crosses over Norfolk Southern Railway's Christiansburg District.
“Virginia State Route 114” enters the record as state highway in southwestern Virginia, US. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Virginia, State and Route can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Virginia State Route 114” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Virginia, State and Route provides the most credible route into that argument.
The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2507824.
The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.
- Subject orientation
- Search vocabulary
- Locating named sources
The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Virginia State Route 114”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Virginia State Route 114 primary sources, Virginia State Route 114 archive and Virginia research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Virginia State Route 114”?
- Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
- What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Virginia State Route 114” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.