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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Maine
- County
- Sagadahoc
- Incorporated town
- February 17, 1781
- Incorporated city
- June 14, 1847
- Total
- 13.22 sq mi (34.23 km )
- Land
- 9.12 sq mi (23.62 km )
- Water
- 4.10 sq mi (10.61 km )
- Elevation
- 33 ft (10 m)
- Density
- 961/sq mi (371.1/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 (EDT)
- Zip code
- 04530
- Fips code
- 23-03355
- Website
- www .cityofbathmaine .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Bath
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Sagadahoc County
- Population
- 8766
- Area
- 34.234062
- Elevation
- 19
- Time zone
- Q5390
- Capital of
- Sagadahoc County
- Official website
- www.cityofbath.com
- Image
- Bath City Hall, Maine, USA 4th of July Photo.jpg
- Households
- 3879
- Dialing code
- 207
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- Commons category
- Bath, Maine
- topic's main category
- Category:Bath, Maine
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Bath, Maine
- postal code
- 04530
- twinned administrative body
- Tsugaru
- P8168
- DLB
- date of incorporation
- 1781-02-17
- water as percent of area
- 31.1723
- different from
- Bath
- per capita income
- 31503
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Encyclopedic overview
Bath is a city in and county seat of Sagadahoc County, Maine, United States. Bath had a 2024 population of 8,870. Bath is growing at a rate of 0.29% annually, and its population has increased by 1.21% since the most recent census, which recorded a population of 8,764 in 2020. The city is popular with tourists, many drawn by its 19th-century architecture. It is home to the Bath Iron Works and Heritage Days Festival, held annually during the Fourth of July weekend. It is commonly known as the "City of Ships" due to the number of sailing ships that were built in the Bath shipyards. Bath is part of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan statistical area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bath” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.