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Mashpee (/ ˈ m æ ʃ p i / Wampanoag: Mâseepee [1]) is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, on Cape Cod. The population was 15,060 as of 2020. [ 2 ] The town is the site of the headquarters and most members of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe , one of two federally recognized Wampanoag groups.
Monomoscoy Island is located in the southern part of the town of Mashpee at (41.569951, -70.504593 It is bordered by the tidal Little River and Hamblin Pond to the northwest and by the Great River to the southeast, and is connected to the mainland of Cape Cod by Monomoscoy Road, which crosses tidal marshes to the northeast.
The town of Barnstable is to the northeast, across Popponesset Bay. According to the United States Census Bureau , the Popponesset Island CDP has a total area of 0.39 square miles (1.0 km 2 ), of which 0.077 square miles (0.2 km 2 ) is land, and 0.31 square miles (0.8 km 2 ) (81.16%) is water.
During Mashpee town special election Tuesday, residents vote to spend $7.5 million on the design and planning of wastewater project.
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Towns have an open town meeting or representative town meeting form of government; cities, on the other hand, use a mayor-council or council-manager form. Based on the form of government, as of 2023, [ 1 ] there are 292 towns and 59 cities in Massachusetts.
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Seabrook is located in the southern part of the town of Mashpee along its western border at (41.582070, -70.498618 It is bounded by the town of Falmouth to the west, by Old Ockway Road to the northeast, by a short segment of Red Brook Road and by the Monomoscoy Island CDP to the southeast, and by Hamblin Pond to the south.