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The region shares its name with Dartmouth College, a prestigious Ivy League institution, and Lake Sunapee, a popular tourist destination. Interstate 89 forms the main freeway connecting the region to other parts of New Hampshire, as well as to nearby Vermont. Lebanon, Hanover, and Claremont are the three most populous communities in the region.
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 most affluent parts of the state are in the Seacoast Region, in the outer Boston suburbs, and around Dartmouth College. Ranked below are the 234 incorporated cities and towns, as well as two inhabited townships, in New Hampshire by median household income, using the 2018-2022 American Community Survey 5-year data (2022 dollars).
The controversy over the management of the water level became more contentious and continued to the turn of the 20th century. The New Hampshire legislature began to shift policy and concluded that (i) Lake Sunapee was mismanaged, and (ii) that all the lakes in New Hampshire should be managed for the benefit and access of the public.
The counties tend to be smaller in land area towards the southern end of the state, where New Hampshire population is concentrated, and larger in land area in the less populous north. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The FIPS county code is the five-digit Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents ...
In 2020 New Hampshire ranked sixth in terms of per capita income in the United States of America, at $41,234 as of the 2016-2020 American Community Survey 5-year estimate. [ 1 ] New Hampshire counties ranked by per capita income
First named "Enfield" by settlers from Enfield, Connecticut, the town was renamed "Relhan" in 1766 to honor Dr. Anthony Relhan (c. 1715 –1776). The doctor was a promoter of sea-bathing as a curative, making Brighton, England, a fashionable resort. Following the American Revolution, the New Hampshire town was renamed Enfield in 1784. [3]
Populated places in New Hampshire generally fall into one or more of the following categories (which see): Category:Cities in New Hampshire (13 cities) Category:Towns in New Hampshire (221 towns) Category:Census-designated places in New Hampshire (46 places) Category:Unincorporated communities in New Hampshire (villages, hamlets, settlements, etc.)