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In the town council–town meeting system, there is no full-time chief executive. [5] The largest municipality by population in Rhode Island is the state capital of Providence, with 190,934 residents. The smallest municipality by population is New Shoreham on Block Island, with 1,410 year-round residents. [1]
New Shoreham is the smallest town in the smallest state; it’s also the only town on Block Island—a 700-acre swath of land just 12 miles from the Rhode Island coastline.
As of the 2020 census, Rhode Island had 28 census-designated places. [2] Most are small communities and villages inside towns , but a few account for the entire area and population of their respective towns.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Town of North Providence has a total area of 5.8 square miles (15 km 2), of which 5.7 square miles (15 km 2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2) is water. Since North Providence is officially incorporated as a town, it maintains the distinction as the smallest town in the smallest state.
Rhode Island (/ ˌ r oʊ d-/ ⓘ, pronounced "road") [6] [7] is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. [8]
The coldest town in Rhode Island is in the northwestern part of the state. North Foster has an average annual low temp of 39 degrees. ... A small town called Kemmerer is the coldest city in ...
Central Falls is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.The population was 22,583 at the 2020 census.With an area of only 1.29 square miles (3.3 km 2), it is the smallest [5] and most densely populated city in the smallest state, and the 23rd most densely populated incorporated place in the United States.
Trump won 15 cities and towns in Rhode Island, managing to flip four municipalities from 2020. Here's how each place voted in 2024, 2020 and 2016.