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English: This is a locator map showing Essex County in Massachusetts. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
Essex is a coastal town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, 26 miles (42 km) north of Boston and 13 miles (21 km) southeast of Newburyport. It is known for its former role as a center of shipbuilding. The population was 3,675 at the 2020 census. [1]
Essex County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census , the total population was 809,829, [ 1 ] making it the third-most populous county in the state, and the seventy-eighth-most populous in the country .
The U.S. state of Massachusetts has 14 counties, though eight [1] of these fourteen county governments were abolished between 1997 and 2000. The counties in the southeastern portion of the state retain county-level local government (Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Norfolk, Plymouth) or, in one case, (Nantucket County) consolidated city-county government.
The Census Bureau classifies towns in Massachusetts as a type of "minor civil division" and cities as a type of "populated place". However, from the perspective of Massachusetts law, politics, and geography, cities and towns are the same type of municipal unit, differing primarily in their form of government and some state laws which set ...
1872 Map of Ipswich plate 66–67 in the 1872 Atlas of Essex County, Massachusetts. 1872 Map of Ipswich Center plate 69 in the 1872 Atlas of Essex County, Massachusetts. Old USGS maps of Ipswich Archived 2009-01-19 at the Wayback Machine; The Birthplace of American Independence, 1687, How Ipswich, Massachusetts, Won This Inscription for Its ...
Map of Massachusetts Senate's 1st Essex and Middlesex district, based on the 2010 United States census. Massachusetts Senate's 1st Essex and Middlesex district in the United States is one of 40 legislative districts of the Massachusetts Senate. [1] It covers 17.8% of Essex County and 2.5% of Middlesex County population.
Map of Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Essex district, based on the 2010 United States census. Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Essex district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers part of Essex County. [1]