Dighton
Taunton is a city in Massachusetts with a population of 59,000. It is nicknamed the "Silver City" for its tradition as a center of silversmithing, and the "Christmas City" for its festive Christmas displays on Taunton Green.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 8,100 residents
- Description: town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
- Also known as: “Dighton, MA” and “Dighton, Massachusetts”
- Postal code: 02715
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dighton Rock and Dighton Rock State Park.
Dighton Rock
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Dighton Rock is a 40-ton glacial boulder composed of sandstone, originally located in the riverbed of the Taunton River at Berkley, Massachusetts. The rock is noted for its petroglyphs, carved designs of ancient and uncertain origin, and the controversy about their creators.
Dighton Rock State Park
Park
Dighton Rock State Park is a public recreation area and historic preserve located on the eastern shore of the Taunton River in the town of Berkley, Massachusetts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Berkley and Assonet.
Berkley
Village
Photo: Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Taunton is a city in Massachusetts with a population of 59,000. It is nicknamed the "Silver City" for its tradition as a center of silversmithing, and the "Christmas City" for its festive Christmas displays on Taunton Green. Berkley is situated 3 miles northeast of Dighton.
Assonet
Hamlet
Assonet is one of two villages in the town of Freetown in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. An original part of the town, Assonet was settled in 1659 along with the city of Fall River, then a part of Freetown. Assonet is situated 3 miles southeast of Dighton.
Freetown
Photo: Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Freetown is a rural town on the Assonet River in the SouthCoast region of Massachusetts. It includes the villages of East Freetown and Assonet.
Dighton
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Town of Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.81449° or 41° 48′ 52″ northLongitude
-71.11962° or 71° 7′ 11″ westPopulation
8,100Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)United Nations Location Code
US DGTOpen location code
87HCRV7J+Q5OpenStreetMap ID
node 158843799OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Dighton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دايتون”
- Basque: “Dighton”
- Catalan: “Dighton”
- Cebuano: “Dighton”
- Chechen: “Дайтон”
- Chinese: “戴頓”
- Chinese: “戴顿”
- Dutch: “Dighton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلده دايتون”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دايتون”
- French: “Dighton”
- German: “Dighton”
- Haitian: “Dighton, Massachusetts”
- Haitian: “Dighton”
- Hebrew: “דייטון”
- Hungarian: “Dighton”
- Italian: “Dighton”
- Japanese: “ダイトン”
- Kazakh: “Daýton”
- Kazakh: “Дайтон”
- Kazakh: “دايتون”
- Kirghiz: “Дайтон”
- Mazanderani: “دیگتون (ماساچوست)”
- Mazanderani: “دیگتون”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dighton”
- Norwegian: “Dighton”
- Persian: “دیگتون، ماساچوست”
- Persian: “دیگتون”
- Polish: “Dighton”
- Portuguese: “Dighton”
- South Azerbaijani: “دیقتون، ماساچوست”
- Spanish: “Dighton (Massachusetts)”
- Spanish: “Dighton”
- Swedish: “Dighton”
- Tatar: “Дайтон”
- Turkish: “Dighton”
- Ukrainian: “Дайтон”
- Volapük: “Dighton”
- Welsh: “Dighton, Massachusetts”
- Welsh: “Dighton”
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Highlights include Lane Field and Taunton Yacht Club.
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