Reading
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town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Massachusetts
- County
- Middlesex
- Named after
- Reading , England
- Type
- Representative town meeting
- Town manager
- Matt Kraunelis
- Total
- 9.9 sq mi (25.7 km )
- Land
- 9.9 sq mi (25.7 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.0 km )
- Elevation
- 128 ft (39 m)
- Density
- 2,570/sq mi (993/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 ( Eastern )
- Zip code
- 01867
- Area code
- 339 / 781
- Fips code
- 25-56130
- Gnis feature id
- 0618232
- Website
- https://www.readingma.gov/
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Reading (/ˈrɛdɪŋ/ RED-ing) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, 16 miles (26 km) north of central Boston. The population was 25,518 at the 2020 census.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Reading” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.