Maryland Route 277 is a state highway

State highway

State highway, state road or state route can refer to one of three related concepts, two of them related to a state or provincial government in a country that is divided into states or provinces :#A...

 in the U.S. state

U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

 of Maryland

Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

. The state highway runs 2.51 miles (4 km) from Elk Mills

Elk Mills, Maryland

Elk Mills is an unincorporated community in Cecil County, Maryland, United States....

 east to MD 279

Maryland Route 279

Maryland Route 279 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Elkton Road and Newark Avenue, the state highway runs from U.S. Route 40 west of Elkton to the Delaware state line north of Elkton, where the highway continues as Delaware Route 2...

 near Elkton

Elkton, Maryland

The town of Elkton is the county seat of Cecil County, Maryland, United States. The population was 11,893 as of the 2000 census and 14,842 according to current July 2008 census estimates. It is the county seat of Cecil County...

 in northeastern Cecil County

Cecil County, Maryland

Cecil County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is part of the Delaware Valley. It was named for Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore , who was the first Proprietary Governor of the colony of Maryland from 1632 until his death in 1675. The county seat is Elkton. The newspaper...

. MD 277 was paved west of MD 316

Maryland Route 316

Maryland Route 316 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Appleton Road, the state highway runs from MD 279 in Elkton north to MD 277 in Elk Mills in northeastern Cecil County. MD 316 was constructed in two sections in the early 1910s from Elkton to Elk Mills and in early...

 by 1921 and was extended east to MD 279 in the mid 1980s.

Route description

MD 277 begins at an arbitrary point on Elk Mills Road in the community of Elk Mills about 250 feet (76.2 m) west of the entrance to Elk Mills Community Park. Elk Mills Road continues west as a county highway toward MD 213

Maryland Route 213

Maryland Route 213 is a state highway located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the United States. The route runs from Maryland Route 662 in Wye Mills, Queen Anne's County north to the Pennsylvania border in Cecil County, where it continues into that state as Pennsylvania Route 841...

. MD 277 heads east through a residential area, crossing CSX

CSX Transportation

CSX Transportation operates a Class I railroad in the United States known as the CSX Railroad. It is the main subsidiary of the CSX Corporation. The company is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, and owns approximately 21,000 route miles...

's Philadelphia Subdivision at grade and then over Big Elk Creek

Elk River (Maryland)

The Elk River is a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay on the Delmarva Peninsula. It is about long, and as the most northeastern extension of the Chesapeake Bay estuary, serves as one entrance to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. It is located in Cecil County, Maryland, with its headwaters extending...

. The state highway enters a forested area along the edge of a quarry before meeting Appleton Road, which heads south as MD 316. MD 277 continues east as Fletchwood Road past a distribution center and through a residential area before reaching its eastern terminus at MD 279 (Elkton Road) northeast of Elkton and just west of the Delaware

Delaware

Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...

 state line.

History

MD 277 was paved west of MD 316 by 1921. The state highway was extended east to MD 279 around 1985.

Junction list

The entire route is in Cecil County

Cecil County, Maryland

Cecil County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is part of the Delaware Valley. It was named for Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore , who was the first Proprietary Governor of the colony of Maryland from 1632 until his death in 1675. The county seat is Elkton. The newspaper...

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Elk Mills, Maryland

Elk Mills is an unincorporated community in Cecil County, Maryland, United States....

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Elkton, Maryland

The town of Elkton is the county seat of Cecil County, Maryland, United States. The population was 11,893 as of the 2000 census and 14,842 according to current July 2008 census estimates. It is the county seat of Cecil County...

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Elkton, Maryland

The town of Elkton is the county seat of Cecil County, Maryland, United States. The population was 11,893 as of the 2000 census and 14,842 according to current July 2008 census estimates. It is the county seat of Cecil County...

|2.51
| – Newark, DE

Newark, Delaware

Newark is an American city in New Castle County, Delaware, west-southwest of Wilmington. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the city is 31,454. Newark is the home of the University of Delaware.- History :...

|Eastern terminus

External links

• MD 277 @ MDRoads.com