Maryland Route 639 is an unsigned

Unsigned highway

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 state highway

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 in the U.S. state

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 of Maryland

Maryland

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. The state highway runs 2.79 miles (4.5 km) from MD 51

Maryland Route 51

Maryland Route 51 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known for most of its length as Oldtown Road, the state highway runs from an interchange with Interstate 68 in Cumberland east to the West Virginia state line at the Potomac River, where the highway continues east as West...

 in Evitts Creek

Evitts Creek, Maryland

Evitts Creek is an unincorporated community located on the eastern outskirts of Cumberland, Maryland, USA along Maryland Route 51 and immediately east of the confluence of Evitts Creek and the North Branch Potomac River....

 north to Interstate 68

Interstate 68

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 (I-68), U.S. Route 40

U.S. Route 40 in Maryland

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, US 220

U.S. Route 220 in Maryland

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, and US 40 Alternate in Cumberland

Cumberland, Maryland

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. MD 639 provides access to Allegany College of Maryland

Allegany College of Maryland

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 and Western Maryland Regional Medical Center, which opened in November 2009. The Willowbrook Road portion of the state highway was constructed in the late 1960s. MD 639 was extended south to MD 51 in 2008.

Route description

MD 639 begins at an intersection with MD 51 (Oldtown Road) in Evitts Creek. The state highway heads north as two-lane Messick Road, paralleling the east side of Evitts Creek. At the northern end of Messick Road, MD 639 turns onto Williams Road, which continues to follow Evitts Creek. After crossing the creek, MD 639 turns north onto Willowbrook Road, a two-lane road that passes through a roundabout

Roundabout

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 at the entrance to the Western Maryland Regional Medical Center and then enters the city limits of Cumberland. After passing the entrance to Allegany College of Maryland, MD 639 turns northwest, passing Country Club Road before reaching its northern terminus at a diamond interchange

Diamond interchange

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 with the I-68, US 40, and US 220 (National Freeway). The roadway continues as US 40 Alternate (Baltimore Avenue), which heads toward downtown Cumberland.

History

The first section of present day MD 639 to become a state highway was the Williams Road segment, which was designated part of MD 52 by 1939. MD 52 was removed from the state highway system in 1956. Willowbrook Road between I-68 and Country Club Road was improved as a county highway in 1968 concurrent with the completion of the Cumberland Thruway east of downtown Cumberland. Willowbrook Road was extended on a new alignment south to Williams Road and brought into the state highway system as MD 639 in 1970. In 2008, MD 639 was extended south along Williams Road and Messick Road to its present southern terminus at MD 51.

Junction list

The entire route is in Allegany County

Allegany County, Maryland

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Evitts Creek, Maryland

Evitts Creek is an unincorporated community located on the eastern outskirts of Cumberland, Maryland, USA along Maryland Route 51 and immediately east of the confluence of Evitts Creek and the North Branch Potomac River....

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Cumberland, Maryland

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Cumberland, Maryland

Cumberland is a city in the far western, Appalachian portion of Maryland, United States. It is the county seat of Allegany County, and the primary city of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census, the city had a population of 20,859, and the metropolitan area had a...

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|Entrance to Western Maryland Regional Medical Center
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Roundabout

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|Entrance to Allegany College of Maryland

Allegany College of Maryland

Allegany College of Maryland is a two-year public community college located in Cumberland, Maryland. It was previously known as Allegany Community College .- History :...

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Auxiliary routes

• MD 639A is the designation for the 0.26 mile (0.4184284 km) access road from MD 639 to Allegany College of Maryland, a road that intersects itself twice.
• MD 639B is the designation for the 0.06 mile (0.0965604 km) section of Country Club Road between MD 639 and Old Willowbrook Road.