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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 ...
Derry is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Derry in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The CDP comprises the urban center of the town, as well as the village of East Derry and connected suburban areas. The population of the CDP was 22,879 at the 2020 census, [2] out of 34,317 in the entire town.
The area was first settled by Scots-Irish families in 1719 as part of the town of Londonderry, as were present-day Windham and portions of Manchester, Salem and Hudson.The town of Derry was formed in 1827 from the eastern portion of Londonderry and was named, like Londonderry, after the city of Derry in Ireland, [4] the Irish word Doire meaning "oak grove".
From the Hudson town line, the CDP boundary follows New Hampshire Route 102 (Nashua Road), New Hampshire Route 128 (Mammoth Road), Stonehenge Road, Interstate 93, and Ash Street to the Derry town line. [3] New Hampshire Route 102 crosses the CDP, leading northeast 3 miles (5 km) to the center of Derry and southwest 7 miles (11 km) to Hudson.
Londonderry is crossed by three New Hampshire state highways and one Interstate Highway. NH 28 crosses North Londonderry, entering the town from Derry in the east and leaving the town into Manchester in the north. NH 28 is known locally as Rockingham Road when it enters from Derry, and merges with Mammoth Road at the northern terminus of NH 128.
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 ...
Towns in the Merrimack Valley of New Hampshire. In New Hampshire, the Merrimack Valley Region is an area of the south-central part of the state, about 35 miles (56 km) wide, centered on the Merrimack River, and running from Canterbury [3] south to the Massachusetts border. Henniker marks the western extent, and Nottingham the eastern.
In this 2018 map by the N.H. Department of Transportation, the Great North Woods region is located at the northern tip of New Hampshire, colored blue-green in this map. The Great North Woods Region , also known as the North Country , is located at the northern tip of New Hampshire , United States , north of the White Mountains Region and is ...