Crawford's Purchase, New Hampshire
Township in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States
Crawford's Purchase, New Hampshire
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Upper Falls of the
Ammonoosuc River
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Location in
Coös County
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New Hampshire
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Coordinates: 44°15′41″N 71°24′9″W / 44.26139°N 71.40250°W / 44.26139; -71.40250 | |
Country | United States |
State | New Hampshire |
County | Coös |
Area | |
• Total | 8.2 sq mi (21.2 km 2 ) |
• Land | 8.2 sq mi (21.2 km 2 ) |
• Water | 0 sq mi (0 km 2 ) 0% |
Elevation
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1,860 ft (567 m) |
Population
(2020)
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• Total | 0 |
Time zone | UTC-5 ( Eastern ) |
• Summer ( DST ) | UTC-4 ( Eastern ) |
Area code | 603 |
FIPS code | 33-007-16100 |
Crawford's Purchase is a township in Coös County , New Hampshire , United States . The purchase lies entirely within the White Mountain National Forest . As of the 2020 census , the purchase had a population of zero. [2]
In New Hampshire, locations, grants, townships (which are different from towns), and purchases are unincorporated portions of a county which are not part of any town and have limited self-government (if any, as many are uninhabited).
History
Crawford's Purchase was granted by commissioner James Willey to Thomas Abbott, Nathaniel Abbott and Ethan Allen Crawford in 1834 for $8,000, [3] and contained about 15,712 acres (63.58 km 2 ) .
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau , the purchase has a total area of 8.2 square miles (21.2 km 2 ) . None of it is covered by water, except for streams such as the Ammonoosuc River , which flows across the purchase from east to west. The highest point is 2,890 feet (880 m) above sea level , on the southern slopes of the Dartmouth Range at the northern corner of the purchase boundary.
Demographics
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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1880 | 28 | — | |
1890 | 28 | 0.0% | |
1900 | 10 | −64.3% | |
1960 | 0 | — | |
1970 | 0 | — | |
1980 | 0 | — | |
1990 | 0 | — | |
2000 | 0 | — | |
2010 | 0 | — | |
2020 | 0 | — | |
U.S. Decennial Census [2] [4] |
As of the 2020 census , [2] there were no people living in the purchase.
References
- ↑ "2021 U.S. Gazetteer Files – New Hampshire" . United States Census Bureau . Retrieved November 15, 2021 .
- 1 2 3 4 "Crawfords purchase, Coos County, New Hampshire: 2020 DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171)" . U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved November 15, 2021 .
- ↑ Julyan, Robert Hixson; Julyan, Mary (1993), Place Names of the White Mountains (Revised ed.), University Press of New England, p. 36, ISBN 978-0-87451-638-8
- ↑ "Census of Population and Housing" . Census.gov . Retrieved June 4, 2016 .
Places adjacent to Crawford
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s Purchase, New Hampshire
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