Dracut
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town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Massachusetts
- County
- Middlesex
- Type
- Open town meeting
- Board of selectmen
- Joshua Taylor, Chair Donald Plummer Tony Archinski Heather Santiago-Hutchings
- Town manager
- Kate Hodges
- Total
- 21.36 sq mi (55.32 km )
- Land
- 20.9 sq mi (54.1 km )
- Water
- 0.46 sq mi (1.2 km )
- Elevation
- 156 ft (48 m)
- Density
- 1,560.6/sq mi (602.6/km )
- Demonym
- Dracuteer
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( Eastern )
- Zip code
- 01826
- Area code s
- 978 & 351
- Fips code
- 25-17475
- Gnis feature id
- 0618221
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Encyclopedic overview
Dracut /ˈdreɪkət/ DRAY-kət is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. At the 2020 census, the town's population was 32,617, making it the second most populous town in Massachusetts with an open town meeting system of governance. The town covers a total area of 21.36 square miles, 0.5 square miles of which are water.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dracut” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.