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Richmond is 35 miles (56 km) south of the state's capital, Providence.It is a mostly forested, landlocked community . According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 40.8 square miles (106 km 2), of which 40.6 square miles (105 km 2) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2) is water.
It is the central building of the "Samuel Clarke Farm", now a 40-acre parcel in Kenyon, Rhode Island, within the town of Richmond. The farm is bordered to the west by the Beaver River . This property was originally part of a larger parcel, one mile wide and five miles long, that was sold in 1662 by the Niantic Sachem Wanumachon in a historic ...
Rhode Island is a state located in the Northeastern United States. According to the 2020 United States Census, Rhode Island is the 8th least populous state with 1,097,379 [1] inhabitants and the smallest by land area spanning 1,033.81 square miles (2,677.6 km 2) of land. [2]
The New London Turnpike (Rhode Island Route 3) was built through the area in 1815. [3] [6] Also in 1815 a tavern was established on the Richmond side of the river to serve travelers on the turnpike. Two more textile mills were built on the Richmond, circa 1830 and 1845; they were later destroyed by fire. [3]
Wood River Junction is a small village in the town of Richmond, Rhode Island, Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. It is home to the Chariho school district's main campus and is otherwise largely turf farms, which were potato farms before the nuclear accident in 1964.
[1] [2] This is a list of highest points in Rhode Island, in alphabetical order by county. All elevations use the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88), the currently accepted vertical control datum for United States, Canada and Mexico. Elevations are from the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) when available.
Carolina is a village that straddles the border of the towns of Charlestown and Richmond on the Pawcatuck River in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. [2] [3] Rhode Island Route 112 passes through the village. [3] Carolina is identified as a census-designated place, with a population of 970 at the 2010 census. [4] [5] [6]
All of those functions in Rhode Island are now carried out by the state government, or by the cities and towns of Rhode Island. Newport County is included in the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is in turn constitutes a portion of the greater Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT Combined Statistical Area.