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Middlesex County, Massachusetts

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

County Seat: Cambridge
Year Organized: 1643
Square Miles: 824
Court House:

40 Thorndike Street

Cambridge, MA 02141-1715

Etymology - Origin of County Name

For the former English county of Middlesex

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

The county was created by the Massachusetts General Court on May 10, 1643, when it was ordered "that the whole plantation within this jurisdiction be divided into four sheires". Middlesex initially contained Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, Woburn, Medford, and Reading

Like an increasing number of Massachusetts counties, Middlesex County exists today only as a historical geographic region, and has no county government. All former county functions were assumed by state agencies in 1997

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 848 sq mi (2,195 kmē). 823 sq mi (2,133 kmē) of it is land and 24 sq mi (62 kmē ) of it (2.84%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

  • Northeast: Essex County
  • Southeast: Suffolk County; Norfolk County
  • Southwest: Worcester County
  • Northwest: Hillsborough County, N.H.

Cities and Towns:

- Acton town
- Arlington town
- Ashby town
- Ashland town
- Ayer town
- Bedford town
- Belmont town
- Billerica town
- Boston city Incorporated Area
- Boxborough town
- Burlington town
- Cambridge (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Carlisle town
- Chelmsford town
- Concord town
- Dracut town
- Dunstable town
- Everett city Incorporated Area
- Framingham town
- Groton town
- Holliston town
- Hopkinton town
- Hudson town
- Lexington town
- Lincoln town
- Littleton town
- Lowell city Incorporated Area
- Malden city Incorporated Area
- Marlborough city Incorporated Area
- Maynard town
- Medford city Incorporated Area
- Melrose city Incorporated Area
- Natick town
- Newton city Incorporated Area
- North Reading town
- Pepperell town
- Reading town
- Sherborn town
- Shirley town
- Somerville city Incorporated Area
- Stoneham town
- Stow town
- Sudbury town
- Tewksbury town
- Townsend town
- Tyngsborough town
- Wakefield town
- Waltham city Incorporated Area
- Watertown city Incorporated Area
- Wayland town
- Westford town
- Weston town
- Wilmington town
- Winchester town
- Woburn city Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this 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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