Maryland Route 610
highway in Worcester County, Maryland
Maryland Route 610 (MD 610) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known for most of its length as Whaleyville Road, the state highway runs 6.53 miles (10.51 km) from the county-maintained portion of Dale Road near Whaleyville north to U.S. Route 113 (US 113) near Bishop. The first segment of MD 610 was constructed near Whaleyville in the mid-1930s. The highway to Bishop was brought into the state highway system in the 1940s. MD 610, which did not originally reach US 50, was extended south to that highway, now MD 346, in 1955. The state highway reached its current southern terminus after the US 50 divided highway was constructed in the mid-1960s.
Route description
MD 610 begins at a point on Dale Road 0.20 miles (0.32 km) south of US 50 (Ocean Gateway) near Whaleyville. The state highway heads north from the intersection with US 50 as two-lane undivided Whaleyville Road. After crossing MD 346 (Old Ocean City Boulevard), MD 610 bypasses the center of Whaleyville on the west and intersects Sheppards Crossing Road. The state highway curves to the northeast and crosses Shavox Church Road and Peerless Road as well as Birch Branch on the way to its eastern terminus at US 113 (Worcester Highway) in Bishop.
“Maryland Route 610” enters the record as highway in Worcester County, Maryland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Maryland, Route and highway can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Maryland Route 610” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Maryland, Route and highway provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2480650. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1955.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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.
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This entry incorporates text from “Maryland Route 610” 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.