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Hampshire County, Massachusetts

Hampshire County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

 

County Seat: Northampton
Year Organized: 1662
Square Miles: 529
Court House:

99 Main Street

Northampton, MA 01060-3175

Etymology - Origin of County Name

For the English county of Hampshire

 

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Hampshire County is a non-governmental county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

 

Hampshire County was formed in 1662 out of Middlesex County, an original county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony which organized counties in 1643. Like a number of Massachusetts counties, Hampshire County exists today only as a historical geographic region and a judicial district and has no county government.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 545 square miles (1,413 kmē), of which, 529 square miles (1,370 kmē) of it is land and 16 square miles (42 kmē) of it (3.01%) is water.
 

Neighboring Counties:
  • North: Franklin County
  • East: Worcester County
  • South: Hampden County
  • West: Berkshire County
Cities and Towns:
- Amherst town  
- Belchertown town  
- Chesterfield town  
- Cummington town  
- Easthampton city Incorporated Area
- Goshen town  
- Granby town  
- Hadley town  
- Hatfield town  
- Huntington town  
- Middlefield town  
- Northampton (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Pelham town  
- Plainfield town  
- South Hadley town  
- Southampton town  
- Ware town  
- Westhampton town  
- Williamsburg town  
- Worthington town
County Resources:

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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."

 

 

 

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