Canaan
Canaan is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,794 at the 2020 census. It is the location of Mascoma State Forest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,790 residents
- Description: town in New Hampshire, United States
- Also known as: “Canaan N.H.”, “Canaan NH”, “Canaan Village”, “Canaan, New Hampshire”, and “Canaan, NH”
- Postal code: 03741
Places of Interest
Highlights include Canaan Meetinghouse and Canaan Street Lake.
Canaan Meetinghouse
Historic building
Photo: Neil.m.young, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Canaan Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house on Canaan Street in Canaan, New Hampshire. Built in 1794, with some subsequent alterations, it is a good example of a Federal period meeting house, serving as a center of town civic and religious activity for many years. Canaan Meetinghouse is situated 2 miles northwest of Canaan.
Canaan Street Lake
Canaan Street Lake is a 291-acre water body located in Grafton County in western New Hampshire, United States, in the town of Canaan. It is part of the Mascoma River watershed, a tributary of the Connecticut River. Canaan Street Lake is situated 2 miles northwest of Canaan.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Orange and Canaan Street Historic District.
Orange
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Orange is a small town located in New Hampshire that was granted in 1769 and incorporated in 1790. The census of 2000 has the population at 299. The Mt. Cardigan State Park is located inside Orange.
Canaan Street Historic District
Neighborhood
Photo: Neil.m.young, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Canaan Street Historic District encompasses the historic original town center of Canaan, New Hampshire. It is a basically linear district, running along Canaan Street roughly from Prospect Hill Road in the north to Moss Flower Lane in the south. Canaan Street Historic District is situated 2 miles northwest of Canaan.
Canaan
- Categories: New England town and locality
- Location: Town of Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
43.64653° or 43° 38′ 48″ northLongitude
-72.01199° or 72° 0′ 43″ westPopulation
3,790Elevation
958 feet (292 metres)United Nations Location Code
US NN2Open location code
87M9JXWQ+J6OpenStreetMap ID
node 252264068OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Canaan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كانان”
- Catalan: “Canaan (Nova Hampshire)”
- Catalan: “Canaan”
- Cebuano: “Canaan”
- Chechen: “Кейнен”
- Chinese: “迦南（新罕布夏）”
- Chinese: “迦南”
- Dutch: “Canaan”
- French: “Canaan”
- German: “Canaan”
- Haitian: “Canaan, New Hampshire”
- Haitian: “Canaan”
- Irish: “Canaan”
- Italian: “Canaan”
- Kazakh: “Канаан”
- Kirghiz: “Канаан”
- Mazanderani: “کینن (نیوهمپشایر)”
- Mazanderani: “کینن”
- Norwegian: “Canaan”
- Persian: “کینن، نیوهمپشایر”
- Persian: “کینن”
- Polish: “Canaan”
- Russian: “Кейнан”
- Serbian: “Кејнан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Canaan, New Hampshire”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Canaan”
- South Azerbaijani: “کنعان، نیوهمپشایر”
- Spanish: “Canaan (Nuevo Hampshire)”
- Spanish: “Canaan”
- Swedish: “Canaan, New Hampshire”
- Swedish: “Canaan”
- Tatar: “Кейнен”
- Turkish: “Canaan”
- Ukrainian: “Кейнен”
- Urdu: “کنعان، نیو ہیمپشائر”
- Urdu: “کنعان”
- Volapük: “Canaan (NH)”
- Volapük: “Canaan, New Hampshire”
- Volapük: “Canaan, NH”
- Volapük: “Canaan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Canaan, New Hampshire”
- Waray (Philippines): “Canaan”
- Welsh: “Canaan, New Hampshire”
- Welsh: “Canaan”
- “Canaan”
- “Canaan NH”
- “Canaan, New Hampshire”
- “Canaan, NH”
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