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Peterborough is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.The population was 6,418 at the 2020 census. [2] The main village, with 3,090 people at the 2020 census, is a census-designated place (CDP) and lies along the Contoocook River at the junction of U.S. Route 202 and New Hampshire Route 101.
The success of Hampton's schools has led to rapid expansion. Hampton Hargate Primary School was built in 2000 with one entry form (FE), extended in 2002 to two FE, and further extended in 2012 to three FE. [7] Hampton Vale Primary was built in 2004 as a one FE school, expanded to a two FE in 2002, and further extended in 2012 to three FE. [8]
In New Hampshire, locations, grants, townships (which are different from towns), and purchases are unincorporated portions of a county which are not part of any town and have limited self-government (if any, as many are uninhabited). Category:Townships in New Hampshire (25 listed, including 9 Grants, 4 Locations and 6 Purchases)
New Hampshire Route 101 crosses US 202 south of the village center, leading east 17 miles (27 km) to Milford and west 19 miles (31 km) to Keene. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the Peterborough CDP has a total area of 4.8 square miles (12.4 km 2 ), of which 0.02 square miles (0.06 km 2 ), or 0.51%, are water.
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Hillsborough County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. As of the 2020 census , the population was 422,937, [ 1 ] almost one-third the population of the entire state. Its county seats are Manchester and Nashua , the state's two biggest cities.
Peterborough's city status is formally held by the local government district rather than the urban area. [37] Much of the Peterborough urban area is unparished, but some of the suburbs are included in civil parishes, including Bretton, Hampton Hargate and Vale, Orton Longueville, and Orton Waterville. [38]
New Hampshire's major regions are the Great North Woods, the White Mountains, the Lakes Region, the Seacoast, the Merrimack Valley, the Monadnock Region, and the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee area. New Hampshire has the shortest ocean coastline of any U.S. coastal state, with a length of 18 miles (29 km), [26] sometimes measured as only 13 miles (21 km).