Hanson
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- Type: Town with 9,990 residents
- Description: town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
- Also known as: “Hanson, MA”, “Hanson, Massachusetts”, and “North Hanson”
- Postal code: 02341
Places of Interest
Highlights include Camp Kiwanee and Whitman-Hanson Regional High School.
Camp Kiwanee
Park
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Camp Kiwanee is a summer camp and function facility at 1 Camp Kiwanee Road in Hanson, Massachusetts. The core of the property is a summer estate called "The Needles" which was built by industrialist Albert Cameron Burrage between 1899 and 1905. Camp Kiwanee is situated 2 miles southeast of Hanson.
Whitman-Hanson Regional High School
School
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Whitman-Hanson Regional High School is a public high school located in Hanson, Massachusetts, United States. The school serves students in grades 9-12 from the towns of Whitman, Massachusetts and Hanson, Massachusetts.
Hanson station
Railway station
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Hanson station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Hanson, Massachusetts, served by the Kingston Line. It is located off Main Street in the South Hanson village. Hanson station is situated 2 miles south of Hanson.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitman and Pembroke.
Whitman
Town
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Whitman is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 15,121 at the 2020 census. It is located approximately 20 miles south of Boston on the western edge of the South Shore. Whitman is situated 3 miles west of Hanson.
Pembroke
Town
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Pembroke is a historic town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. Pembroke is a South Shore suburb of the Boston metropolitan area. The town is located approximately halfway between Boston and Cape Cod. Pembroke is situated 3½ miles east of Hanson.
Abington
Town
Abington is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, 20 miles southeast of Boston. The population was 17,062 at the 2020 census. Abington is situated 4 miles northwest of Hanson.
Hanson
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Town of Hanson, Plymouth, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.07531° or 42° 4′ 31″ northLongitude
-70.88006° or 70° 52′ 48″ westPopulation
9,990Elevation
98 feet (30 metres)United Nations Location Code
US UJPOpen location code
87JF34G9+4XOpenStreetMap ID
node 158851986OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Hanson” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هانسون”
- Basque: “Hanson”
- Catalan: “Hanson”
- Cebuano: “Hanson”
- Chechen: “Гансон”
- Chinese: “漢森”
- Czech: “Hanson”
- Dutch: “Hanson”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هانسون”
- French: “Hanson”
- German: “Hanson”
- Haitian: “Hanson, Massachusetts”
- Haitian: “Hanson”
- Hebrew: “הנסון”
- Hungarian: “Hanson”
- Italian: “Hanson”
- Japanese: “ハンソン”
- Kazakh: “Xénson”
- Kazakh: “Хэнсон”
- Kazakh: “حەنسون”
- Kirghiz: “Хэнсон”
- Mazanderani: “هانسن (ماساچوست)”
- Mazanderani: “هانسن”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hanson”
- Norwegian: “Hanson”
- Persian: “هانسن”
- Polish: “Hanson”
- Portuguese: “Hanson”
- Serbian: “Хансон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hanson, Massachusetts”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hanson”
- Slovak: “Hanson”
- South Azerbaijani: “هانزون، ماساچوست”
- Spanish: “Hanson (Massachusetts)”
- Spanish: “Hanson”
- Swahili: “Hanson, Massachusetts”
- Swahili: “Hanson”
- Swedish: “Hanson, Massachusetts”
- Swedish: “Hanson”
- Tatar: “Гансон”
- Turkish: “Hanson, Massachusetts”
- Turkish: “Hanson”
- Ukrainian: “Гансон”
- Volapük: “Hanson”
- Welsh: “Hanson, Massachusetts”
- Welsh: “Hanson”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Historic Site and Little Cedar Swamp.
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