North Branch
North Branch is an unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland, United States. The Western Maryland Railroad Right-of-Way, Milepost 126 to Milepost 160 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland
- Also known as: “North Branch, Maryland” and “North Branch, MD”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Warrior Run Generating Station and Mexico Farms Airport.
Warrior Run Generating Station
Power station
Warrior Run Generating Station, owned by the AES Corporation, was a 205 megawatt cogeneration plant located south of Cumberland, Maryland, United States, at 11600 Mexico Farms Road.
Mexico Farms Airport
Aerodrome
Mexico Farms Airport is a public airport located south of downtown Cumberland, Maryland. The airport is located immediately south of the larger Greater Cumberland Regional Airport. Mexico Farms Airport is situated 2 miles northwest of North Branch.
Greater Cumberland Regional Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: 71Demon, Copyrighted free use.
Greater Cumberland Regional Airport is a public airport in the town of Wiley Ford in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. It is two miles south of Cumberland in Allegany County, Maryland. Greater Cumberland Regional Airport is situated 2½ miles northwest of North Branch.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mexico and Patterson Creek.
Patterson Creek
Hamlet
Patterson Creek is an unincorporated community in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. It lies at the northeastern end of the county, and is named for Patterson Creek, which empties into the North Branch Potomac River here. Patterson Creek is situated 1½ miles south of North Branch.
Spring Gap
Village
Photo: Bonnachoven, CC0.
Spring Gap is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Allegany County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 55. Spring Gap is situated 2 miles southeast of North Branch.
North Branch
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Allegany County, Western Maryland, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.58953° or 39° 35′ 22″ northLongitude
-78.73224° or 78° 43′ 56″ westElevation
650 feet (198 metres)Open location code
87F3H7Q9+R4OpenStreetMap ID
node 158641458OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Russian—“North Branch” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “北布蘭奇 (馬里蘭州)”
- Chinese: “北布蘭奇”
- French: “North Branch”
- Russian: “Норт-Бранч”
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