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Skowhegan
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town in Somerset County, Maine, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Maine
- County
- Somerset
- Incorporated
- February 5, 1823
- Total
- 60.47 sq mi (156.62 km )
- Land
- 58.85 sq mi (152.42 km )
- Water
- 1.62 sq mi (4.20 km )
- Elevation
- 112 ft (34 m)
- Density
- 163/sq mi (63.1/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Zip code
- 04976
- Fips code
- 23-68910
- Website
- www .skowhegan .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Skowhegan
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Somerset County
- Population
- 8620
- Area
- 60.47
- Elevation
- 68
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Capital of
- Somerset County
- Official website
- www.skowhegan.org
- Image
- Business Section, Water Street, Skowhegan, ME.jpg
- Households
- 3651
- Dialing code
- 207
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- Commons category
- Skowhegan, Maine
- postal code
- 04976
- inception
- 1823-02-05
- per capita income
- 24938
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Skowhegan (/skaʊˈhiːɡən/) is the county seat of Somerset County, Maine, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 8,620. It contains the census-designated place of the same name. Every August, Skowhegan hosts the annual Skowhegan State Fair, the oldest continuously held state fair in the United States. Skowhegan was originally inhabited by the indigenous Abenaki people who named the area Skowhegan, meaning "watching place [for fish]," and were mostly dispersed by the end of the 4th Anglo-Abenaki War.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Skowhegan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.