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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.
Instead, local governance is provided by the eight cities and thirty-one towns. [3] Counties in Rhode Island have had no governmental functions since 1846 other than as court administrative and sheriff corrections boundaries which are part of state government. Within Rhode Island, Washington County is colloquially referred to as South County. [4]
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]
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.
Population: 1,180 The postcard-perfect town of Craftsbury, located in northeastern Vermont, is a place of white picket fences and family-run farms set amid rolling hills.
Bristol County is a county located in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. As of the 2020 census, the population was 50,793, [4] making it the least populous county in Rhode Island. In terms of land area, it is the third-smallest county in the United States, at only 25 square miles (65 km 2).
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.