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Essex

Essex County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of . At the 2020 census, the total population was 809,829, making it the third-most populous county in the state, and the seventy-eighth-most populous in the country.
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  • Type: County with 810,000 residents
  • Description: county in Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Essex County”, “Essex County, MA”, and “Essex County, Massachusetts”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Holyoke–French House and Averills Island.

Archaeological site
Photo: Fletcher6, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a historical house at Elm Street and Topsfield Road in . It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable gambrel roof, twin interior chimneys, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation.

Island
The islands of range from barren, almost completely submerged rocks in Massachusetts Bay to the large, famous and heavily visited and .

Restaurant
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The is an historic diner at 166 Newburyport Turnpike in . It was manufactured in 1954 and moved to this location in 1970 after first being in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Topsfield and Ipswich.

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is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,569 at the 2020 census. is located in the region of . Part of the town comprises the census-designated place of .

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is a seaside town of 14,000 people in . Home to Willowdale State Forest and Sandy Point State Reservation, includes the southern part of Plum Island.

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is a city in with a population of about 7,500 in 2020. is closely tied to its sister town, Wenham, sharing a school system, library, recreation department and commuter rail station.

Essex

Latitude
42.6763° or 42° 40′ 35″ north
Longitude
-70.9487° or 70° 56′ 55″ west
Population
810,000
Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)
Open location code
87JFM3G2+GG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316965722
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4935951
Wiki­data ID
Q54076
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Essex” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Essex County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة إسكس”
  • Armenian: “Էսեքս շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu d’Essex”
  • Azerbaijani: “Esseks qraflığı”
  • Basque: “Essex konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Essex County, Massachusetts”
  • Bavarian: “Essex County”
  • Belarusian: “акруга Эсэкс”
  • Bishnupriya: “এসেক্স কাউন্টি, ম্যাসাচুসেট্‌স”
  • Bishnupriya: “এসেক্স কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Есекс”
  • Catalan: “Comtat d’Essex”
  • Cebuano: “Essex County”
  • Chechen: “Эссекс (гуо, Массачусетс)”
  • Chechen: “Эссекс”
  • Chinese: “Essex Kūn”
  • Chinese: “埃塞克斯县”
  • Chinese: “艾塞克斯縣”
  • Danish: “Essex County”
  • Dutch: “Essex County”
  • Esperanto: “Essex County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Essex”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Essex”
  • Finnish: “Essexin piirikunta”
  • French: “comté d’Essex”
  • French: “Comté d’Essex”
  • French: “Essex County”
  • Georgian: “ესექსის ოლქი”
  • German: “Essex County”
  • Gilaki: “اسکس ٚ شأرستان (ماساچۊست)”
  • Gilaki: “اسکس ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “κομητεία Έσσεξ”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Έσσεξ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז אסקס”
  • Hungarian: “Essex megye”
  • Ido: “Komtio Essex”
  • Irish: “Contae Essex, Massachusetts”
  • Irish: “Contae Essex”
  • Italian: “contea di Essex”
  • Italian: “Contea di Essex”
  • Italian: “Essex County”
  • Japanese: “エセックス・カウンティ”
  • Japanese: “エセックス郡”
  • Korean: “에식스군”
  • Latin: “Essex Comitatus”
  • Low German: “Essex County”
  • Luxembourgish: “Essex County”
  • Marathi: “एसेक्स काउंटी”
  • Mazanderani: “اسکس شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Essex Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Essex Kūn”
  • Northern Frisian: “Essex County”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Essex County”
  • Norwegian: “Essex County”
  • Ossetian: “Эссекс (зылд, Массачусетс)”
  • Ossetian: “Эссекс”
  • Persian: “شهرستان اسکس، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “شهرستان اسکس”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Essex”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Essex”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Essex”
  • Portuguese: “Essex County”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Essex, Massachusetts”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Essex”
  • Russian: “Эссекс”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Essex”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Essex County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Есекс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Essex County”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Okrug Essex, Massachusetts”
  • Slovenian: “Essex County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Essex”
  • Spanish: “condado de Essex”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Essex”
  • Spanish: “Essex County”
  • Swahili: “Essex County”
  • Swedish: “Essex County, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Essex County”
  • Tatar: “Эссекс (округ, Массачусетс)”
  • Tatar: “Эссекс”
  • Turkish: “Essex County, MA”
  • Turkish: “Essex County, Mass.”
  • Turkish: “Essex County, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Essex County”
  • Turkish: “Essex ilçesi, MA”
  • Turkish: “Essex ilçesi, Mass.”
  • Turkish: “Essex ilçesi, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Essex ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Ессекс”
  • Urdu: “ایسیکس کاؤنٹی، میساچوسٹس”
  • Urdu: “ایسیکس کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Essex”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Essex, Massachusetts”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Essex”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Essex, Massachusetts”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Essex”
  • Welsh: “Essex County, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Essex County”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایسکس کاؤنٹی،میساچیوسٹس”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Old Linebrook Cemetery and Hood Pond Community Beach.

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