Wakefield
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town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Massachusetts
- County
- Middlesex
- Region
- New England
- Named after
- Cyrus Wakefield
- Type
- Open town meeting
- Administrator
- Denise Y. Casey
- Board of selectmen town council
- See below…
- Town clerk
- Betsy Sheeran
- Clerk to the board of selectmen
- Sherri Dalton
- Counsel
- Thomas A. Mullen
- Total
- 7.9 sq mi (20.5 km )
- Land
- 7.5 sq mi (19.3 km )
- Water
- 0.42 sq mi (1.1 km )
- Elevation
- 98 ft (30 m)
- Density
- 3,640/sq mi (1,400/km )
- Demonym
- Wakefieldian
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- New England town
- Official name
- Wakefield
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Middlesex County
- Population
- 27090
- Area
- 7.9
- Elevation
- 30
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Melrose
- Official website
- www.wakefield.ma.us
- Image
- View of Lake Quannapowitt from the Wakefield Bandstand.jpg
- Households
- 10722
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- Commons category
- Wakefield, Massachusetts
- topic's main category
- Category:Wakefield, Massachusetts
- postal code
- 01880
- inception
- 1638-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Wakefield, Massachusetts
- per capita income
- 53524
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Encyclopedic overview
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Wakefield is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the greater Boston metropolitan area, incorporated in 1812 and located about 12.5 mi (20.1 km) north-northwest of Downtown Boston. Wakefield's population was 27,090 at the 2020 census. Wakefield offers an assortment of activities around the local lake, Lake Quannapowitt.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wakefield” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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