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Lancaster

town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
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Lancaster
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Facts

18 properties

Identity

Instance of
town in the United States
Inception
1643[11]
Official website
www.ci.lancaster.ma.us[12]
Official name
Lancaster[17]

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 42.456°, -71.674°, 🗺️ 42.456°, -71.673°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Worcester County[2]
Shares border with
Shirley, Clinton, Sterling[4][5][6]

Population and size

Area
+28.2[20]
Elevation above sea level
+91[19]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 91 m GeoNames 94 m edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Population
+8055, +8441[13][14]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 8,055 · 8,441 GeoNames 7,509 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Postal code
01523[8]
More facts +6
Part of
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 12th Worcester district, Massachusetts Senate's Worcester and Middlesex district[9][10]
Described by source
The Encyclopedia Americana, New International Encyclopedia[15][16]
Located in the statistical territorial entity
Worcester metropolitan NECTA[21]
Named after
Lancaster[7]
Number of households
+2700[18]
Per capita income
+38661[22]
🏷️ Also known as
en Lancaster en Lancaster, MA en Lancaster, Massachusetts ar لانكاستر el Λάνκαστερ es Lancaster (Massachusetts) fa لنکستر he לנקסטר ja ランカスター ru Ланкастер tr Lancaster, Massachusetts zh 兰开斯特 zh 蘭開斯特
🔖 Identifiers · 16
VIAF cluster ID
261521534
Library of Congress authority ID
n82152210
ArchINFORM location ID
4657
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/United_States/Massachusetts/Localities/L/Lancaster/
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
25-34165
FactGrid item ID
Alte Weser
Freebase ID
/m/0v03z
GNIS Feature ID
618368, 610873
GeoNames ID
4941635
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007567088605171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1844172
Topic's main category
Category:Lancaster, Massachusetts
Show all 16 identifiers +4
UN/LOCODE
USLCS
Who's on First ID
404476655
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJrmf8bdgtbrjvgwQ3qCwC
Yale LUX ID
place/77f7e207-0230-46a0-a70b-1b3e38d348e5

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🔗 Connections
People born here 8
Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Luther Burbank, Caroline Lee Hentz, Hannah Flagg Gould, Herman Vandenburg Ames, Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney, Ezra Butler, James C. Carter
Shares border with 3
Clinton, Sterling, Shirley
← Shares border with 3
Clinton, Sterling, Shirley
Residents 2
Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Mary Rowlandson
← Category combines topics 2
Category:People from Lancaster, Massachusetts, Category:Births in Lancaster, Massachusetts
Category for people born here 1
Category:Births in Lancaster, Massachusetts
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Lancaster, Massachusetts
Country 1
United States
Described by source 1
New International Encyclopedia
FactGrid item ID 1
Alte Weser
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Worcester County
Located in time zone 1
Eastern Time Zone
Named after 1
Lancaster
Topic's main category 1
Category:Lancaster, Massachusetts
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Lancaster, Massachusetts
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Worcester County
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Summary

Lancaster is a town in the United States[1].

Related Entities

Henrietta Swan Leavitt Lancaster Luther Burbank United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . malegislature.gov. Retrieved . malegislature.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved . sec.state.ma.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . 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 · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Worcester County
    Named after → —
    Inception → —
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