Maryland Route 310

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Maryland Route 310 marker

Maryland Route 310
Cayots Corner Road

Maryland Route 310 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by MDSHA
Length: 3.96 mi[1] (6.37 km)
Major junctions
West end: MD 213 at Cayots
  MD 342 at St. Augustine
East end: Churchtown Road at the Delaware state line near St. Augustine
Location
Counties: Cecil
Highway system
← MD 309 MD 311 →

Maryland Route 310 (MD 310) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Cayots Corner Road, the state highway runs 3.96 miles (6.37 km) from MD 213 at Cayots east to the Delaware state line east of St. Augustine, where the highway continues as Churchtown Road, in southern Cecil County. MD 310 was built east of St. Augustine by 1921 and west to what was then U.S. Route 213 (US 213) by 1939. Cayots Corner was the sharp turn on US 213 at its intersection with MD 310 before US 213 was relocated to eliminate the turn in the mid-1950s.

Route description

MD 310 begins at an intersection with MD 213 (Augustine Herman Highway) in the hamlet of Cayots. Town Point Road heads west from the junction as a county highway. MD 310 heads east as a two-lane road past a spur road that is the old alignment of MD 213 at the highway's namesake corner. The state highway passes through farmland, intersecting MD 342 (St. Augustine Road) in the community of St. Augustine. MD 310 reaches its eastern terminus just east of Old Telegraph Road at the Delaware state line. The highway continues east as Churchtown Road.[1][2]

History

MD 310 was paved east of St. Augustine Road as a state-aid road by 1915.[3][4] The section west to US 213 was completed by 1939.[5] Cayots Corner was a right-angle turn for US 213 where the U.S. Highway originally intersected MD 310.[6] That turn and a sharp turn at Town Point Road just to the west were bypassed when US 213 was moved to a new alignment to the north and west around 1956. MD 310 was then extended to its present western terminus.[7]

Junction list

The entire route is in Cecil County.

LocationMile[1]kmDestinationsNotes
Cayots0.000.00 MD 213 (Augustine Herman Highway) – Cecilton, Chesapeake City
St. Augustine2.163.48 MD 342 north (St. Augustine Road) – Chesapeake City
 3.966.37Churchtown Road east – Mount Pleasant, DEDelaware state line
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

  • Portal icon Maryland Roads portal

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Highway Information Services Division (2012). Highway Location Reference. Maryland State Highway Administration. Retrieved 2010-10-13. 
  2. ↑ Google Inc. "Maryland Route 310". Google Maps (Map). Cartography by Google, Inc. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=MD-213+N%2FAugustine+Herman+Hwy&daddr=Cayots+Corner+Rd&hl=en&geocode=FWaDWgIdXKZ6-w%3BFdqiWgId2797-w&mra=ls&sll=39.49351,-75.781159&sspn=0.0076,0.01929&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=14. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
  3. ↑ Weller, O.E.; Parran, Thomas; Miller, W.B.; Perry, John M.; Ramsay, Andrew; Smith, J. Frank (May 1916). Annual Reports of the State Roads Commission of Maryland (1912–1915 ed.). Baltimore: Maryland State Roads Commission. p. 124. Retrieved 2010-10-13. 
  4. ↑ Maryland Geological Survey. Map of Maryland: Showing State Road System and State Aid Roads (Map) (1921 ed.).
  5. ↑ Maryland State Roads Commission. General Highway Map: State of Maryland (Map) (1939 ed.).
  6. ↑ United States Geological Survey. Cecilton, MD quadrangle (Map). 1:48,000. 15 Minute Series (Topographic) (1951 ed.). http://historical.mytopo.com/quad.cfm?quadname=Cecilton&state=MD&series=15. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
  7. ↑ Maryland State Roads Commission. Maryland: Official Highway Map (Map) (1956 ed.).

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