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According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 21.6 square miles (56 km 2), of which 21.5 square miles (56 km 2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2) (0.56%) is water. Brockton is the 162nd largest city by land area in the Commonwealth, and the twelfth largest of the twenty-seven towns in Plymouth County.
Note: Massachusetts 010-012 are served by Hartford, Connecticut; Massachusetts 025-027 are served by Providence, Rhode Island. Central Massachusetts (013-017) 192 Main St., Shrewsbury, MA 01546; Middlesex-Essex (018-019, IRS 055) 76 Main St., North Reading, MA 01889; Brockton (020, 023) 225 Liberty St., Brockton, MA 02301
Numbering plan areas and area codes since May 2001 September 1997 [1] – May 2001 [2] July 1988 [3] – September 1997 [4] [5] October 1947 – July 1988 [6]. Massachusetts is divided into five distinct numbering plan areas (NPAs), which are served by nine area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), [7] organized as four overlay complexes and a single-area code NPA.
The area that is now Raynham was settled in 1639 as a part of Taunton, and was founded by Elizabeth Pole, the first woman to found a town in America.. It was to that area three years earlier that Roger Williams, proponent of separation of church and state, of paying Indians for land acquired and abolishing slavery, had escaped, traveling 55 miles during a January blizzard.
This area was once known as South Bay, as the original waterline was in the area of Charles Street and Broadway (formerly Carver Street and Pleasant Street). [6] In the 1820s, the neighborhood was landfilled by developer Ephraim Marsh , [ 7 ] in partnership with Francis Cabot Lowell Jr, before the more extensive landfills of the adjacent Back ...
Huntington is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 2,094 at the 2020 census. [1] It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The main village of Huntington is in the south of the town, with the villages of Norwich [2] and Norwich Bridge in the center. (The villages are ...
Braintree (US: / ˈ b r eɪ n ˌ t r i /), officially the Town of Braintree, is a municipality in Norfolk County, Massachusetts.It is officially known as a town, [6] but Braintree is a city with a mayor-council form of government, and it is considered a city under Massachusetts law. [7]
Major cities and towns with the area code include Waltham, Woburn, Lynn, Weymouth and Dedham. It was created as in an area code split of area code 617 on September 1, 1997. [1] Use of 781 became mandatory February 1, 1998. [2] Area code 339 is an overlay complex code for the same service area, activated on May 2, 2001. [3] Since then, ten-digit ...