Swampscott
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town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Massachusetts
- County
- Essex
- Type
- Town Manager / Representative town meeting
- Total
- 6.7 sq mi (17.4 km )
- Land
- 3.1 sq mi (7.9 km )
- Water
- 3.7 sq mi (9.6 km )
- Elevation
- 46 ft (14 m)
- Density
- 4,954/sq mi (1,912.8/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 ( Eastern )
- Zip code
- 01907
- Area code
- 339 / 781
- Fips code
- 25-68645
- Gnis feature id
- 0618311
- Website
- Town of Swampscott, Massachusetts, Official Web Site
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- New England town
- Official name
- Swampscott
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Essex County
- Population
- 15111
- Area
- 6.7
- Elevation
- 14
- Official website
- www.town.swampscott.ma.us
- Image
- Elihu Thomson House - Swampscott, MA.JPG
- Households
- 6061
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- Commons category
- Swampscott, Massachusetts
- postal code
- 01907
- inception
- 1629-00-00
- per capita income
- 58664
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
Sources (12)
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Encyclopedic overview
Swampscott (/ˈswɒmpskət/) is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, located 15 miles (24 km) up the coast from Boston in an area known as the North Shore. The population was 15,111 as of the 2020 United States census. A former summer resort on Massachusetts Bay, Swampscott is today a fairly affluent residential community and includes the village of Beach Bluff, as well as part of the neighborhood of Clifton.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Swampscott” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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