Westover, Maryland

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Westover, Maryland
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Westover
Coordinates: 38°07′26″N75°42′23″W / 38.12389°N 75.70639°W / 38.12389; -75.70639
Country Flag of the United States.svg United States
State Flag of Maryland.svg  Maryland
County Flag of Somerset County, Maryland.svg Somerset
Elevation
4 m (13 ft)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP codes
21871, 21890
Area code(s) 410, 443, and 667
GNIS feature ID588163 [1]

Westover is an unincorporated community in Somerset County, Maryland, United States. [2] It is located on Maryland Route 413 near its terminus at U.S. Route 13. Owing to its central location in Somerset County, Westover is home to many important services and businesses.

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Westover has a post office with the zip code of 21871, located at 8930 Crisfield Hwy. Its area code is 410.

About

The community possesses a post office and a former elementary school near its center. It also has two convenience stores and gas stations, one of which is in the median of US 13. Further south on MD 413 is the Somerset County Health Department. Further north is the Eastern Correctional Institution, one of the largest employers in the county.

The Somerset County Sheriff's Department is located in the community, on 30426 Sam Barnes Road. The Somerset County Department of Parks and Recreation is also located here. The Great Hope Golf Course is located a little further south on MD 413.

Arlington, Beauchamp House, Brentwood Farm, Cedar Hill, Liberty Hall, Salisbury Plantation, St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, and William T. Tull House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3]

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Transportation

Main roads

Maryland Route 413 is the main road through the community. Development is relatively close to the road, so the speed limit drops to 40 mph from the 55 mph it usually is.

U.S. Route 13 is the main highway of the Delmarva Peninsula, and it intersects the northern terminus of MD 413.

Sam Barnes Road houses several important facilities in the county. A section of this road is Maryland Route 673, a small connector road between the two aforementioned highways, which allows the only connection from US 13 northbound to MD 413 southbound.

Old WestoverMarion Road and Sign Post Road intersect MD 413 diagonally, and itself was the original alignment of said road. It leads north to Revell's Neck Road.

Maryland Route 361 leads to Fairmount, Frenchtown and Rumbly.

Public transportation

Several routes travel through the community, provided by Shore Transit:

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Crisfield is a city in Somerset County, Maryland, United States, located on the Tangier Sound, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. The population was 2,515 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. Crisfield has the distinction of being the southernmost incorporated city in Maryland.

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Kingston is an unincorporated community in Somerset County, Maryland, United States. A small community at the head of navigation of the Big Annemessex River, it is located on Maryland Route 413 at the intersection of Kingston Lane. A very rural community far from any urban development, it is quite small in population, the land dominated by agricultural fields and tree farms.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marion Station, Maryland</span> Unincorporated community in Maryland, United States

Marion Station, also known as Marion, is an unincorporated community in Somerset County, Maryland, United States. It is located at the northern intersection of Maryland routes 413 and 667. After the arrival of the Pennsylvania Railroad arm known as the "Eastern Shore Railroad" toward Crisfield in 1866, Marion was locally hailed as the "strawberry capital of the world". After the trains stopped coming it went into decline, with some sources even hailing it as a ghost town.

References

  1. "Westover". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Westover, Maryland
  3. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.