Falmouth
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town in Massachusetts, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Massachusetts
- County
- Barnstable
- Type
- Representative town meeting
- Town administrator
- Mike Renshaw
- Total
- 54.4 sq mi (141.0 km )
- Land
- 44.1 sq mi (114.1 km )
- Water
- 10.3 sq mi (26.8 km )
- Elevation
- 9.8 ft (3 m)
- Density
- 740/sq mi (285/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 ( Eastern )
- Zip codes
- 02536 ( East Falmouth ), 02540 ( Falmouth ), 02543 ( Woods Hole ), 02556 ( North Falmouth )
- Area code
- 508 / 774
- Fips code
- 25-23105
- Gnis feature id
- 0618253
- Website
- www .falmouthma .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Falmouth, MA | Official Website
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Falmouth
- Official name
- Falmouth
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Barnstable County
- Population
- 31531
- Area
- 141.0
- Elevation
- 3
- Shares border with
- Bourne
- Official website
- www.falmouthmass.us
- Image
- Nobska Lighthouse 1.jpg
- Households
- 13983
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- Commons category
- Falmouth, Massachusetts
- topic's main category
- Category:Falmouth, Massachusetts
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Falmouth, Massachusetts
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Falmouth, Massachusetts
- postal code
- 02543
- inception
- 1660-00-00
- per capita income
- 51205
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Encyclopedic overview
Falmouth (/ˈfælməθ/ FAL-məth) is a town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. The population was 32,517 at the 2020 census, making Falmouth the second-largest municipality on Cape Cod after Barnstable. The terminal for the Steamship Authority ferries to Martha's Vineyard is located in the village of Woods Hole in Falmouth. Woods Hole also contains several scientific organizations such as the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), the Woodwell Climate Research Center, NOAA's Woods Hole Science Aquarium, and the scientific institutions' various museums.
For geographic and demographic information on specific parts of the town of Falmouth, please see the articles on East Falmouth, Falmouth Village, North Falmouth, Teaticket, West Falmouth, and Woods Hole. Falmouth also encompasses the villages of Hatchville and Waquoit, which are not census-designated places and fall within the village of East Falmouth based on postal service.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Falmouth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.