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Portsmouth is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States.The population was 17,871 at the 2020 U.S. census.Portsmouth is the second-oldest municipality in Rhode Island, after Providence; it was one of the four colonies which merged to form the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, the others being Providence, Newport, and Warwick.
The term tidewater may be correctly applied to all portions of any area, including Virginia, where the water level is affected by the tides (more specifically, where the water level rises when the tide comes in). In the case of Virginia, the Tidewater region includes the land east of the Fall Line, the natural border with the Piedmont Region.
Mount Hope Bay is part of the Narragansett Basin, formed as a rift in the Avalon terrane. It is underlaid by sedimentary rocks estimated to be several miles thick. [1] The bay covers an area of about 13 square miles (36 square km), with an average depth of 18.7 feet, [2] although portions of the southern end of the bay are as deep as 74 feet near the Mount Hope Bridge.
Hog Island is an American island in Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. It lies at the entrance to the harbor of Bristol and is part of the town of Portsmouth. The 60 ft (18 m) tall Hog Island Shoal Lighthouse stands off the south end, warning ships of the dangerous shoals around the island. It has a land area of approximately 0.3 sq mi (78 ha ...
Narragansett Bay is a bay and estuary on the north side of Rhode Island Sound covering 147 square miles (380 km 2), 120.5 square miles (312 km 2) of which is in Rhode Island. [1] The bay forms New England 's largest estuary, which functions as an expansive natural harbor and includes a small archipelago. [ 2 ]
Aquidneck Island (/ ə ˈ k w ɪ d n ɛ k / ə-KWID-nek [1]), officially known as Rhode Island, is an island in Narragansett Bay in the state of Rhode Island. The total land area is 37.8 sq mi (98 km 2 ), which makes it the largest island in the bay.
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.
Prudence Island is the third-largest island in Narragansett Bay in the state of Rhode Island and part of the town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, United States. It is located near the geographic center of the bay. It is defined by the United States Census Bureau as Block Group 3, Census Tract 401.03 of Newport County, Rhode Island.