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Town of Amherst

Amherst

Amherst is a town in the of Western Massachusetts. Amherst is home to about 35,000 residents as well as the campuses of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, and Hampshire College.
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  • Type: Town with 39,300 residents
  • Description: town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Amherst Village”, “Amherst, MA”, “Amherst, Massachusetts”, “Hadley East”, “Hadley East Precinct”, “Hadley Third Precinct”, and “Third Precinct”
  • Postal codes: 01002-01004

Places of Interest

Highlights include Emily Dickinson Museum and Mead Art Museum.

Museum
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The is a historic house museum consisting of two houses: the Dickinson Homestead and the Evergreens. The Dickinson Homestead was the birthplace and home from 1855 to 1886 of 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson, whose poems were discovered in her bedroom there after her death.

Museum
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houses the fine art collection of Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Opened in 1949, the building is named after architect William Rutherford Mead, of the prestigious architectural firm McKim, Mead & White.

Stadium
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, is a 17,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in , on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Amherst and North Amherst.

Suburb
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is a census-designated place in the town of Amherst in , , United States. The population was 4,994 at the 2010 census. is situated 2½ miles south of Amherst.

Suburb
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is a census-designated place in the city of Amherst in , , United States. The population was 6,819 at the 2010 census, up from 6,019 at the 2000 census. is situated 2½ miles north of Amherst.

Neighborhood
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The is a historic district encompassing the center of the East Village of Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It includes properties on Main Street, North East Street, and South East Street.

Amherst

Latitude
42.3732° or 42° 22′ 24″ north
Longitude
-72.5199° or 72° 31′ 12″ west
Population
39,300
Elevation
269 feet (82 metres)
Open location code
87J99FFJ+72
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158816286
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4929022
Wiki­data ID
Q49164
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Amherst” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أميرست”
  • Armenian: “Ամհերսթ”
  • Armenian: “Էմըրսթ”
  • Asturian: “Amherst”
  • Basque: “Amherst, Massachusetts”
  • Basque: “Amherst”
  • Belarusian: “Амгэрст”
  • Belarusian: “Амхерст”
  • Bulgarian: “Амхърст”
  • Catalan: “Amherst”
  • Cebuano: “Amherst”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەمھێرتس”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەمھێرست”
  • Chechen: “Эмгерст”
  • Chinese: “安默斯特”
  • Chinese: “阿姆斯特”
  • Chinese: “阿姆赫斯特”
  • Chinese: “阿默斯特”
  • Czech: “Amherst”
  • Dagbani: “Amherst”
  • Danish: “Amherst”
  • Dutch: “Amherst”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اميرست ، ماساتشوستس”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اميرست”
  • Esperanto: “Amherst”
  • Estonian: “Amherst”
  • French: “Amherst”
  • Galician: “Amherst, Massachusetts”
  • Galician: “Amherst”
  • Georgian: “ამჰერსტი”
  • German: “Amherst”
  • Greek: “Άμερστ”
  • Hebrew: “אמהרסט”
  • Hungarian: “Amherst”
  • Irish: “Amherst, Massachusetts”
  • Irish: “Amherst”
  • Italian: “Amherst”
  • Japanese: “アマースト”
  • Kazakh: “Амхэрст”
  • Kikuyu: “Amherst, Massachusetts”
  • Kirghiz: “Амхэрст”
  • Korean: “애머스트”
  • Latin: “Amherst”
  • Latin: “Amherstium”
  • Luxembourgish: “Amherst”
  • Mazanderani: “امهرست (ماساچوست)”
  • Mazanderani: “امهرست”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amherst”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amherst i Massachusetts”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amherst”
  • Norwegian: “Amherst”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Amherst”
  • Persian: “امهرست، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “امهرست”
  • Polish: “Amherst”
  • Portuguese: “Amherst”
  • Romanian: “Amherst, Massachusetts”
  • Romanian: “Amherst”
  • Russian: “Амхерст”
  • Scots: “Amherst”
  • Serbian: “Амхерст”
  • Silesian: “Amherst”
  • Slovak: “Amherst”
  • Slovenian: “Amherst”
  • South Azerbaijani: “امهرست، ماساچوست”
  • Spanish: “Amherst, Massachusetts”
  • Spanish: “Amherst”
  • Swedish: “Amherst, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Amherst”
  • Tajik: “Амҳерст”
  • Tatar: “Эмгерст”
  • Turkish: “Amherst, MA”
  • Turkish: “Amherst, Mass.”
  • Turkish: “Amherst, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Amherst”
  • Ukrainian: “Емгерст”
  • Volapük: “Amherst”
  • Welsh: “Amherst, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Amherst”
  • Yiddish: “אמהערסט, מאסאטשוסעטס”
  • Yiddish: “אמהערסט”
  • Yue Chinese: “岩靴士”

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