Hanson
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town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Massachusetts
- County
- Plymouth
- Type
- Open town meeting
- Town administrator
- Lisa Green
- Select board
- Jim Hickey, Laura Fitzgerald-Kemmett, Joseph Weeks, Ann Rein, Edwin Heal
- Total
- 15.7 sq mi (40.6 km )
- Land
- 15.0 sq mi (38.9 km )
- Water
- 0.66 sq mi (1.7 km )
- Elevation
- 89 ft (27 m)
- Density
- 708/sq mi (273/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( Eastern )
- Zip codes
- 02341 (Hanson) 02350 ( Monponsett )
- Area code
- 339 / 781
- Fips code
- 25-28495
- Gnis feature id
- 0619468
- Website
- www .hanson-ma .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Hanson is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. Part of Greater Boston, Hanson is located 20 miles (32 km) south of Boston and is one of the inland towns of the South Shore. The population was 10,639 at the 2020 census. It contains the census-designated place of the same name.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hanson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.