Lincoln

Maybe you’ve never heard of sleepy Concord population 18,000, but your life has certainly been impacted by it. This is where "the shot heard round the world" was fired in the spring of 1775, setting off a chain of events that would eventually lead to the creation of the United States.
  • Type: Village with 7,010 residents
  • Description: town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Lincoln (Massachusetts)”, “Lincoln Center”, “Lincoln Centre”, “Lincoln, MA”, “Lincoln, Mass.”, and “Lincoln, Massachusetts”
  • Postal code: 01773

Places of Interest

Highlights: Lincoln Public Library and First Parish in Lincoln.

Library
is a public library at 3 Bedford Road in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

Place of worship
is a place of worship.

Building
is the home of the Bemis Lecture Series and…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Concord and Weston.

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Maybe you’ve never heard of sleepy …

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is a town in with a population of 12,000.

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is a northwestern suburb of in .

Lincoln

Latitude
42.42593° or 42° 25′ 33″ north
Longitude
-71.30395° or 71° 18′ 14″ west
Population
7,010
Elevation
253 feet (77 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US LCQ
Open location code
87JCCMGW+9C
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Lincoln” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لينكولن”
  • Armenian: “Լինկոլն”
  • Basque: “Lincoln”
  • Belarusian: “Лінкальн”
  • Catalan: “Lincoln”
  • Cebuano: “Lincoln”
  • Chechen: “Линкольн”
  • Chinese: “林肯”
  • Chinese: “林肯鎮”
  • Czech: “Lincoln”
  • Dutch: “Lincoln”
  • Estonian: “Lincoln”
  • Finnish: “Lincoln”
  • French: “Lincoln”
  • Galician: “Lincoln”
  • German: “Lincoln”
  • Greek: “Λίνκολν”
  • Haitian: “Lincoln, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Lincoln”
  • Hebrew: “לינקולן”
  • Irish: “Lincoln”
  • Italian: “Lincoln”
  • Japanese: “リンカーン”
  • Kazakh: “Линкольн”
  • Kirghiz: “Линкольн”
  • Korean: “링컨”
  • Mazanderani: “لینکلن (ماساچوست)”
  • Mazanderani: “لینکلن”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lincoln”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lincoln”
  • Norwegian: “Lincoln”
  • Persian: “لینکلن”
  • Persian: “لینکولن، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “لینکولن”
  • Polish: “Lincoln”
  • Portuguese: “Lincoln”
  • Romanian: “Lincoln, Massachusetts”
  • Romanian: “Lincoln”
  • Russian: “Линкольн”
  • Silesian: “Lincoln”
  • Slovak: “Lincoln”
  • Slovenian: “Lincoln”
  • Spanish: “Lincoln”
  • Swahili: “Lincoln, Massachusetts”
  • Swahili: “Lincoln”
  • Swedish: “Lincoln, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Lincoln”
  • Tatar: “Линкольн”
  • Turkish: “Lincoln, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Lincoln”
  • Ukrainian: “Лінкольн”
  • Urdu: “لنکن، میساچوسٹس”
  • Urdu: “لنکن”
  • Volapük: “Lincoln”
  • Welsh: “Lincoln, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Lincoln”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Tracey’s Corner and South Lincoln.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Lincoln Center Historic District and Town Hill Cemetery.

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