Duxbury
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town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Massachusetts
- County
- Plymouth
- Type
- Open town meeting
- Total
- 37.6 sq mi (97.4 km )
- Land
- 23.7 sq mi (61.5 km )
- Water
- 13.9 sq mi (35.9 km )
- Elevation
- 36 ft (11 m)
- Density
- 678/sq mi (261.6/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 ( Eastern )
- Zip codes
- 02331, 02332
- Area code
- 339 / 781
- Fips code
- 25-17895
- Gnis feature id
- 0618338
- Website
- www .town .duxbury .ma .us
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Duxbury (alternative older spellings: "Duxborough" and "Duxboro") is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. A suburb located on the South Shore approximately 35 miles (56 km) to the southeast of Boston, the population was 16,090 at the 2020 census. The town contains the census-designated places (CDPs) of Duxbury, Green Harbor, and South Duxbury.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Duxbury” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.