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Based on the form of government, there are 292 towns and 59 cities in Massachusetts. Some municipalities, however, still refer to themselves as "towns" even though they have a city form of government. The Census Bureau classifies towns in Massachusetts as a type of "minor civil division" and cities as a type of "populated place".
The U.S. state of Massachusetts has 14 counties, though eight [1] of these fourteen county governments were abolished between 1997 and 2000. The counties in the southeastern portion of the state retain county-level local government (Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Norfolk, Plymouth) or, in one case, ( Nantucket County) consolidated city-county ...
Towns in Essex County, Massachusetts (23 C, 8 P) F. Towns in Franklin County, Massachusetts (16 C, 25 P) H. Towns in Hampden County, Massachusetts (8 C, 15 P)
1871 Map of Middlesex County Plate 44-45 from the 1871 Atlas of Massachusetts. National Register of Historic Places listing for Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; Middlesex County entry from Hayward's New England Gazetteer of 1839; Map of cities and towns of Massachusetts Archived September 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine; Massachusetts County Map
Essex County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the total population was 809,829, [1] making it the third-most populous county in the state, and the seventy-eighth-most populous in the country. It is part of the Greater Boston area (the Boston – Cambridge – Newton, MA– NH ...
This is a non-diffused parent category for categories in Category:Towns in Massachusetts by county. It should hold all the pages in the county-level categories, and may hold other pages such as lists.
Berkshire County (pronounced / ˈbɜːrkʃər /) is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of the 2020 census, the population was 129,026. [2] Its largest city and traditional county seat is Pittsfield. [3] The county was founded in 1761. [4]
Administrative divisions of Massachusetts. Massachusetts shares with the five other New England states a governmental structure known as the New England town. Only the southeastern third of the state has functioning county governments; in western, central, and northeastern Massachusetts, traditional county-level government was eliminated in the ...