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Swansea is a town in Bristol County in southeastern Massachusetts, United States. It is located at the mouth of the Taunton River, just west of Fall River, 47 miles (76 km) south of Boston, and 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Providence, Rhode Island. The population was 17,144 at the 2020 census. [1]
Towns have an open town meeting or representative town meeting form of government; cities, on the other hand, use a mayor-council or council-manager form. Based on the form of government, as of 2023, [1] there are 292 towns and 59 cities in Massachusetts. Over time, many towns have voted to become cities; 14 municipalities still refer to ...
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 late 1990s.
This is a list of villages in Massachusetts, arranged alphabetically. In Massachusetts, villages usually do not have any official legal status; all villages are part of an incorporated municipality (town or city - see List of municipalities in Massachusetts ) which is the smallest official form of government.
The entire territory of Massachusetts is within the bounds of a municipality, and communities in this category may consist of part of an incorporated municipality, or perhaps a part of two incorporated municipalities. See also Commonwealth of Massachusetts list of Unincorporated Communities in Massachusetts
This article lists all 190 census-designated places in the U.S. State of Massachusetts. List CDP ... Population (2020) [1] County City or town Abington: 17,062 Plymouth:
The building at 68 Stevens Road that houses the town offices was gifted in 1890, when Swansea’s population was 1,456. Now the town is home to approximately 17,000 residents, Capital Building ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Cities in Massachusetts. It includes cities that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This is a container category .