Other heavy and civil engineering construction federal obligations in North Carolina
USAspending.gov records $706,317,562.28 in NAICS 237990 obligations — Other Heavy And Civil Engineering Construction — with North Carolina place of performance, across 51 awards. Fifty-one actions against a $706.3 million book lift the mean to about $13.85 million per award. The pair is residual heavy civil plus North Carolina, not a highway or port-only total and not cash already paid.
Key figures
- NAICS 237990 in North Carolina: $706,317,562.28 across 51 awards.
- Implied mean about $13.85 million per award on a 51-row book.
- Residual heavy civil is not a highway or port-only total.
- Cite obligations from USAspending.gov; keep both sides of the join.
What the 237990–North Carolina join is
NAICS 237990 and geography NC meet here. $706,317,562.28 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not the nationwide residual heavy civil book, not North Carolina’s entire federal inflow, and not an outlay. Highway and water-sewer construction sit on other NAICS codes; 237990 is the residual heavy-civil bucket.
51 awards is a very short civil list beside $706,317,562.28. A handful of rows can still hold a large commitment if a few marine or heavy-civil vehicles dominate. The packet does not name a port, lock, or Corps district inside the extract. Treating 51 as a count of North Carolina ports would misread award records. Those labels are ordinary speech, not extra packet dollars.
Open North Carolina federal spending for every industry tagged to the state, NAICS 237990 for 237990 without a North Carolina filter, North Carolina industries for other North Carolina NAICS pairs, and All spending ties for joins outside this residual heavy civil cell. Do not add those parents into $706,317,562.28.
A thin award list next to a large civil total
Dividing $706,317,562.28 by 51 awards yields about $13.85 million per award. That mean is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical Wilmington marine job and not a typical inland heavy-civil line. Unique recipients are unpublished. 51 is not a count of projects or miles.
North Carolina geography invites a coast-versus-Piedmont civil story. This extract does not split Wilmington, Morehead City, or inland counties. All share NC inside $706,317,562.28. Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Washington, and Texas also have 237990 cells; those dollars are not this total.
Nationwide 237990 without a North Carolina overlay is a different total
The national industry hub aggregates 237990 across every state. North Carolina’s statewide hub aggregates every NAICS with an NC tag. Only awards that carry both 237990 and North Carolina place of performance belong here, which is why this page cites 51 awards and $706,317,562.28.
Place of performance can follow a payee address, in-state work, or a reporting convention. 237990 awards coded to Virginia, South Carolina, or Georgia do not enter this sum even if a contractor’s mailroom sits in Raleigh. The join cannot re-allocate dollars along a Southeast civil chain.
Obligations, not outlays, on the North Carolina 237990 cell
An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $706,317,562.28 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as fill already placed in North Carolina over-reads the field. 51 remains an award-record count, not a payment count.
What the North Carolina–237990 pair does not prove
A large residual heavy civil total in North Carolina does not mean the code caused North Carolina’s industry mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation is not causation. Channel depths and hurricane folklore are not USAspending columns here.
Keep $706,317,562.28 labeled as NAICS 237990 obligations with North Carolina place of performance. North Carolina federal spending still includes other industries that must not be folded into this residual heavy civil cell. NAICS 237990 is 237990 without the North Carolina filter. North Carolina industries lists sibling North Carolina codes.
How to cite heavy civil construction in North Carolina
A clean footnote names NAICS 237990 (residual heavy civil), North Carolina place of performance, $706,317,562.28 in obligations, and 51 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Mean dollars per action remain about $13.85 million. Do not merge 237310 into this residual bucket. All spending ties indexes other pairs.
A later ingest can restate $706,317,562.28 without changing the join of 237990 and NC. North Carolina federal spending still mixes every North Carolina industry; do not quote that parent as 237990. NAICS 237990 is the national residual heavy civil code without the North Carolina tag. North Carolina industries keeps sibling North Carolina codes unmerged. 51 is a record count, including modifications, not a unique-vendor census. Keep the obligation label on $706,317,562.28. Correlation is not causation. Fifty-one rows remain a record count, not a unique-project census.
Questions
- How much has NAICS 237990 obligated in North Carolina?
- USAspending.gov records $706,317,562.28 in obligations for NAICS 237990 with North Carolina place of performance, covering 51 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the residual heavy civil–North Carolina pair, not an outlay figure and not the nationwide 237990 total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
- Why so few 237990 awards relative to $706M in North Carolina?
- The extract lists 51 award actions totaling $706,317,562.28. A short row list can still hold a large dollar total if a few awards dominate. Average obligation per award is about $13.85 million, a ratio, not a typical civil job. Unique recipients are not published on this packet.
- Is this North Carolina highway construction?
- No. Highway and street construction is a different NAICS. This cell is 237990 only, totaling $706,317,562.28 across 51 awards. Quote residual heavy civil and North Carolina together without merging highway books. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
- Where are the live North Carolina and 237990 tables?
- North Carolina federal spending shows all industries in the state. NAICS 237990 shows NAICS 237990 without a state filter. North Carolina industries lists other North Carolina industry pairs. All spending ties lists joins outside this cell. Prefer those hubs after later USAspending ingests.
USAspending.gov NAICS industry aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.