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Braintree

city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Place city_in_the_united_states Q16101

Facts

21 properties

Identity

Instance of
city in the United States
Inception
1634[13]
Official website
braintreema.gov[14]
Official name
Braintree[19]

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 42.206°, -71.005°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Suffolk County[2]
Shares border with
Quincy[4]

Population and size

Area
+14.5[23]
Elevation above sea level
+27[22]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 27 m GeoNames 30 m edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Population
+35744, +39143[15][16]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 35,744 · 39,143 GeoNames 37,297 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
781, 339[11][12]
Postal code
02184, 02185[6][7]
More facts +8
Part of
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 5th Norfolk district, Massachusetts Senate's Norfolk and Plymouth district, Massachusetts Senate's Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth district[8][9][10]
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18]
Different from
New Braintree[21]
Located in the statistical territorial entity
Boston–Cambridge–Newton NECTA division[24]
Named after
Braintree[5]
Number of households
+13751[20]
Office held by head of government
Mayor of Braintree, Massachusetts[17]
Per capita income
+47474[25]
🏷️ Also known as
en Braintree, Massachusetts en Town of Braintree en Braintree en Braintree MA en Braintree, MA en Braintree Massachusetts ar برينتري el Μπρέιντρι es Braintree (Massachusetts) fa برینتری he בריינטרי ja ブレインツリー ko 브레인트리 ru Брейнтри uk Брейнтрі vi Braintree, Massachusetts zh 布伦特里 zh-hant 布倫特里
🔖 Identifiers · 28
ISNI
0000000403724506
VIAF cluster ID
185144898748050290767
Library of Congress authority ID
n79023328
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Braintree Town Hall, MA.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
23225
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/United_States/Massachusetts/Localities/B/Braintree/
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Braintree-Massachusetts
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
25-07740
Facebook location ID
103075076399104
FactGrid item ID
Kreuzburg
Freebase ID
/m/01cj4g
GNIS Feature ID
618316
Show all 28 identifiers +16
GeoNames ID
7257540
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2049507
Harper's tag
braintree
MusicBrainz area ID
3894c5ff-3940-4ea6-b6fb-db0afd76680d
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007554950605171
OpenStreetMap node ID
158868891
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2388233
Our Campaigns container ID
151325
Quora topic ID
Braintree-MA
RKD thesaurus ID
5922
Ringgold ID
109437
Topic's main category
Category:Braintree, Massachusetts
UN/LOCODE
USBTC
Who's on First ID
85950425
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PCjBvTBHM8khKRCGyjxjvd3, E39PBJcgB8DmxctpD9qXxvPPcP
Yale LUX ID
place/7cc62743-b819-486d-9fcc-fb97d94f894e

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🔗 Connections
People born here 15
John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John Hancock, Priscilla Chan, Jim Calhoun, Brian Gibbons, Peter Kormann, Sylvanus Thayer +7 more
Located in the administrative territorial entity 3
Norfolk County, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
People who died here 3
Elke Mackenzie, Sylvanus Thayer, Ezra Sutton
Contained subdivisions 2
Rivenhall, Bulmer
← Category combines topics 2
Category:Births in Braintree, Massachusetts, Category:People from Braintree, Massachusetts
← Place of publication 2
The Pilot, Braintree Forum
Category for people born here 1
Category:Births in Braintree, Massachusetts
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Braintree, Massachusetts
Country 1
United States
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Different from 1
New Braintree
FactGrid item ID 1
Kreuzburg
Instance of 1
city in the United States
Located in time zone 1
Eastern Time Zone
Named after 1
Braintree
Shares border with 1
Quincy
Topic's main category 1
Category:Braintree, Massachusetts
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Braintree, Massachusetts
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Norfolk County
← Different from 1
New Braintree
← Headquarters location 1
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
← Location of formation 1
A Rocket to the Moon
← Main subject 1
Braintree Forum
← Shares border with 1
Quincy
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Summary

Braintree is a city in the United States[1].

Related Entities

John Adams John Hancock John Quincy Adams Priscilla Chan United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . malegislature.gov. Retrieved . malegislature.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved . sec.state.ma.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved . sec.state.ma.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . allareacodes.com. Retrieved . allareacodes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . allareacodes.com. Retrieved . allareacodes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/46713|batch #46713]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 18w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Website → —
    Category for people born here → Category:Births in Braintree, Massachusetts
    Located in the statistical territorial entity → Boston–Cambridge–Newton NECTA division
    Inception → —
    + 31 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: braintree, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289920119|braintree (#289920119)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
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