Y Salisbury Berkshire Merrimac Franklin Middlesex AMESBUR West NEWBURYPORT* Worcester HAVERHILL Newbury Newbury nd vela Essex Gro LAWRENCE* wn Clarksburg Monroe METHUEN eto Leyden n org o e n t G w s Boxford Rowley o Rowe d Northeld North st Heath r Andover NORTH Florida Colrain a Warwick Royalston Ashby Dunstable m n h Dracut Ipswich ia ADAMS r Winchendon Townsend Pepperell ug Rockport ll e ro i B Ashburnham bo W gs LOWELL* Andover d n el Charlemont y M Gill T C s Hamilton Adams Lunenbur h i p w rd e d o Erving l d e fo Shelburne Groton m Tewksbury T Essex N l sh T sf e W t enham A o n Savoy o GREENFIELD* Orange empleton r GLOUCESTER y d o North Buckland Athol n Hawley GARDNER Westford t L e l g k a g r n Reading n Cheshire P i i Danvers BEVERLY c Ayer L o e h h s Wendell i FITCHBURG* Billerica m y c Montague l S l n PEABODY b l i Manchester n ip n a o ld LEOMINSTER r e s W o to Littleton e by-the-Sea Westminster n H u r n Carlisle ld e o Asheld t g Windsor Plaineld e Reading h Conway Harvard g D n n i l SALEM* o r t akeeld t d m l t Bedford u Saugus Marblehead n Lexington e y e W a B a r r l Acton l Hubbardston Boxborough D r e u a Petersham LYNN e v b S WOBURN Cummington Stoneham MELROSE d e s Lancaster Concord Swampscott L e PITTSFIELD* Goshen n t w Princeton u e inchester u d g S Sterling r W r Whately h N Bolton a MEDFORD REVERE Hinsdale Peru S Stow n Arlington MALDEN W u y a N Nahant o b r s Barre M Lincoln Belmont d th SOMER n i m Clinton WALTHAM EVERETT CHELSEA n a VILLE Suffolk i CAMBRIDGE* o l Rutland g l Hudson m t i t Pelham Sudbury WINTHROP d M o Chestereld s Berlin h est WATER n r TOWN ic Lenox id n W Hateld e Washington d W a R l l e h NOR Hardwick Holden Northborough eston y el n Oakham Boylston MARLBOROUGH NEW d THAMPT m a o W e t Hadley Boylston FRAMINGHAM n A li W Norfolk p New T ok est ON* Paxton ON o n m Braintree Southborough r o a Belchertown B W Shrewsbury t h Natick ON* Lee g t South Hadley s N ellesley n Massachusetts Bay Chester e B o Becket i W r W Hull t r Stockbridge e o th WORCESTER* - Ware B Needham n W ON o Stockbridge T r st k BOST u o Ashland Cohasset d yringham o e estborough r Granby k Spencer Leicester Dedham* H ld W Sherborn EAST o S e f o l l M u d th HAMPT A a Dover Milton QUINCY o m t d n p s l Hopkinton Great t t ld a e Westwood g o e Grafton Otis o n YOKE E Medeld k y R Barrington m Warren k r A Scituate o Auburn u N Monterey e Ludlow o o lb Blandford r o r l D Hingham y r i Holliston Norwood B M O HOL PALMER B Upton Millis L BRAINTREE Canton P Norwell Milford H SPRINGFIELD WEYMOUTH Russell Northbridge Rockland Egremont WEST CHICOPEE Medway H n Sutton o o Holbrook Marsheld Plymouth Charlton p alpole t Hanover ed h Avon Sandiseld Brimeld a Norfolk W g Abington ilbraham Oxford le Sharon u New WESTFIELD o Sheeld W m t Marlborough Monson a S Tolland h ON* e Mendon k Provincetown SPRINGFIELD* Sturbridge Uxbridge g Whitman Mount Longmeado n o Granville East n o r ashington AGAWAM i l Foxborough BROCKT s b Wales l Southwick w e n Dudley l W Blackstone e FRANKLIN m l Bridgewater a w ebster Douglas i East e v Hampden B Holland l P Duxbury l H SOUTHBRIDGE W i rentham Longmeado W M Easton est W Plainville Manseld Truro Bridgewater Halifax Kingston BRIDGEWATER North Norton Cities are in capital letters. * Indicates County Seat. R a Plympton y Welleet Attleborough n Hampshire Hampden h a ere are 14 Counties, with 39 cities and 312 towns. ATTLEBORO m Middleborough Cape Cod Bay TAUNTON* Carver Plymouth* ere are thirteen communities that have applied for, and been granted, city forms of government, though they Eastham wish to be known as “e Town of”. ey are: AGAWAM, BARNSTABLE, BRAINTREE, BRIDGEWATER, Rehoboth Dighton Berkley Barnstable FRANKLIN, GREENFIELD, PALMER, RANDOLPH, SOUTHBRIDGE, WATERTOWN, WEST SPRINGFIELD, Seekonk Lakeville WEYMOUTH and WINTHROP. ere are four communities that have been granted the title of city though they Orleans Rochester Wareham do not have wards, they are: AMESBURY, EASTHAMPTON, METHUEN and FRAMINGHAM. Swansea Freetown A Brewster c Dennis NE u s h Sandwich e geographic center of Massachusetts is the Town of Rutland, Worcester County. W Bristol RIVER* n Bourne e BEDFORD* Somerset ALL t F MattapoisettMarion Harwich Oldest Town: Plymouth - 1620 Yarmouth Chatham BARNSTABLE* Oldest City: Boston - 1822 Fairhaven Mashpee Newest Town: East Brookeld - 1920 Dartmouth Newest City: GARDNER - 1923 Falmouth Smallest by population: Town of Gosnold - 75, City of NORTH ADAMS - 13,708 Westport Largest by population: Town of Brookline - 58,732, City of BOSTON - 617,594 Buzzards Bay Tisbury Nantucket Gosnold Sound William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Oak Blus Citizen Information Service West (617) 727-7030 • 1-800-392-6090 (in Massachusetts only) • TTY: (617) 878-3889 • www.sec.state.ma.us/cis Tisbury Dukes Aquinnah Nantucket Chilmark Edgartown* Martha’s Vineyard MASSACHUSETTS COUNTIES Nantucket* Updated 1/1/2018 (population gures are based on the 2010 Census).