Scarborough
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town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Maine
- County
- Cumberland
- Incorporated
- July 14, 1658
- Communities
- Blue Point Dunstan Eight Corners Grand Beach Higgins Beach North Scarborough Oak Hill Pine Point Pleasant Hill Prouts Neck Scarborough West Scarborough
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Total
- 70.63 sq mi (182.93 km )
- Land
- 47.61 sq mi (123.31 km )
- Water
- 23.02 sq mi (59.62 km )
- Elevation
- 20 ft (6.1 m)
- Density
- 465/sq mi (179.5/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Zip codes
- 04070, 04074
- Fips code
- 23-66145
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Scarborough
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Cumberland County
- Population
- 22135
- Area
- 70.63
- Elevation
- 5
- Official website
- www.scarboroughmaine.org
- Image
- 2015.12-436-031ap Sacco Bay,Gulf of Maine,Prouts Neck Peninsula,Nonsuch River Scarborough(Maine),US sat05dec2015-1226h(UTC-5(EST).jpg
- Households
- 8462
- Dialing code
- 207
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- Commons category
- Scarborough, Maine
- topic's main category
- Category:Scarborough, Maine
- inception
- 1635-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Scarborough, Maine
- per capita income
- 52133
- postal code
- 04074
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Encyclopedic overview
Scarborough is a town in Cumberland County on the southern coast of the U.S. state of Maine. Located about 7 miles (11 km) south of Portland, Scarborough is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area. The population was 22,135 at the 2020 census, making it the 6th most populous municipality in Maine, as well as the largest in the state to be referred to as "Town".
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scarborough” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.