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Five New Hampshire state routes, two Interstate Highways, and one U.S. route cross Hooksett. NH 3A crosses Hooksett from south to north closely paralleling the Merrimack River and I-93 and is known locally as West River Road. It connects Manchester to Bow. NH 27 begins in Hooksett at NH 28/US 3 and follows Whitehall Road eastwards into Candia.
It has a span of 47 feet 8 inches (14.53 m), and an average height over the river of 36 feet 6 inches (11.13 m). The roadway is 43 feet 6 inches (13.26 m) above the riverbed. It stands on the site of four previous bridges, where the river passes through a deep gorge.
The first major fire, set in 1800 to clear the lower slopes for pasture, swept through the stands of virgin red spruce on the summit and flanks of the mountain. Between 1810 and 1820, local farmers, who believed that wolves were denning in the blowdowns, set fire to the mountain again. The conflagration raged for weeks, destroying the topsoil ...
Record heights were recorded in many rivers, including the Connecticut River, which peaked at 37.6 feet (11.5 m) in Hartford, the Merrimack River, the Pemigewasset River, and the Androscoggin River. [1] The flood led to an estimated 150 to 200 deaths across the Northeast, and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage in 1936 dollars.
Hooksett is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Hooksett in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The CDP includes the historic central village of Hooksett as well as suburban and rural land surrounding it. The population of the CDP was 5,283 at the 2020 census, [2] out of 14,871 in the entire town.
South Hooksett is located in the southern part of the town of Hooksett (and the southernmost part of Merrimack County) at (43.030833, -71.434860 It is bordered to the west and south by the city of Manchester in Hillsborough County, to the east by the town of Auburn in Rockingham County, and to the north by Legends Road, Hooksett Road (U.S. Route 3), Londonderry Turnpike (New Hampshire Route 28 ...
Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the NH State Fire Marshal’s Office at (603) 223-4289 or by email at fmo@dos.nh.gov.
Mount Chocorua (/ ʃ ə ˈ k ɔːr w ə /) is a 3,490 ft (1,060 m) mountain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the easternmost peak of the Sandwich Range.Although the mountain is not outstanding for its elevation, it is very rugged and has excellent views of the surrounding lakes, mountains, and forests.