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Based on the form of government, as of 2023, [1] there are 292 towns and 59 cities in Massachusetts. Over time, many towns have voted to become cities; 14 municipalities still refer to themselves as "towns" even though they have a city form of government. [1] The Census Bureau classifies towns in Massachusetts as a type of "minor civil division ...
Three Rivers is a village and former census-designated place (CDP) in the city of Palmer in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is named for the confluence of the Ware and Quaboag rivers, which form the Chicopee River.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 33.1 square miles (85.8 km 2), of which 32.9 square miles (85.1 km 2) is land and 0.2 square mile (0.6 km 2) (0.72%) is water. The headwaters of the Squannacook River rise in the town's western hills. Townsend has the largest land area of any town in Middlesex County.
Massachusetts is the seventh-smallest state in the United States with an area of 10,555 square miles (27,340 km 2). [1] It is bordered to the north by New Hampshire and Vermont, to the west by New York, to the south by Connecticut and Rhode Island, and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Maine. Massachusetts is the most populous New ...
History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume 1 (A-H), Volume 2 (L-W) compiled by Samuel Adams Drake, published 1879 and 1880. 572 and 505 pages. Westford section in volume 2 page 475 by Hodgman and Julian Abbott. History of the Town of Westford, in the County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, by Rev. Edwin Ruthven Hodgman, published 1883, 494 ...
MA 181 starts at U.S. 20 in the city center, before heading north into Three Rivers and Bondsville. After that, MA 181 enters Belchertown. MA 67 starts nearby the Monson border on U.S. 20 and stays on the extreme east side of Palmer before it heads into Warren. MA 67 goes under I-90, but never intersects the highway.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 21.3 square miles (55 km 2), of which 21.0 square miles (54 km 2) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2) (0.99%) is water. Plainfield's waterways serve as the headwaters of the Westfield and Deerfield rivers.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 27.2 square miles (70 km 2), of which 26.6 square miles (69 km 2) are land and 0.6-square-mile (1.6 km 2) (2.06%) is water. Shutesbury lies at the northern end of the western branch of the Quabbin Reservoir .