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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 .
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.
New Hampshire is a state located in the Northeastern United States. It is divided into 234 municipalities, including 221 towns and 13 cities. New Hampshire is organized along the New England town model, where the state is nearly completely incorporated and divided into towns, 13 of which are designated as "cities". For each town/city, the table ...
The Monadnock Region is a region in southwestern New Hampshire. It is named after Mount Monadnock , a 3,165 foot isolated mountain, which is the dominant geographic landmark in the region. Although it has no specific borders, the Monadnock Region is generally thought of comprising all of Cheshire County and the western portion of Hillsborough ...
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.
Area code 603 in a 1956 map, covering the whole state.. Area code 603 is the sole area code for the U.S. state of New Hampshire in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). It was created as one of the original 86 numbering plan areas in October 1947.
Union Street leads 2 miles (3 km) east to the Peterborough town center and 0.6 miles (1.0 km) south to New Hampshire Route 101, a highway connecting Keene to the west with Milford to the east. West Peterborough has a separate ZIP code (03468) from the rest of Peterborough.
The Atlantic coast at North Hampton, New Hampshire In this 2018 map by the N.H. Department of Transportation, New Hampshire's seacoast region (in lighter blue) lies at the southeastern corner of the state. The Seacoast Region is the southeast area of the U.S. state of New Hampshire that is centered around the city of Portsmouth.