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Cheshire County
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county in New Hampshire, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Hampshire
- Named after
- Cheshire , England
- Seat
- Keene
- Largest city
- Keene
- Total
- 728.9 sq mi (1,888 km )
- Land
- 706.7 sq mi (1,830 km )
- Water
- 22.2 sq mi (57 km ) 3.1%
- Estimate 2025
- 78,269
- Density
- 108.2/sq mi (41.8/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- co .cheshire .nh .us
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Cheshire County is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of New Hampshire. As of the 2020 census, the population was 76,458. Its county seat is the city of Keene. Cheshire was one of the five original counties of New Hampshire, and is named for the county of Cheshire in England. It was organized in 1771 at Keene. Sullivan County was created from the northern portion of Cheshire County in 1827. Cheshire County comprises the Keene, NH micropolitan statistical area.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cheshire County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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