Massachusetts
Barnstable County
Town of Chatham

Chatham

Chatham is at the "elbow" of in , and includes the villages of North Chatham, South Chatham and West Chatham. Its beautiful beaches, harbors, coastal scenes and its interesting village shops make it a popular day-trip destination as well as a top-notch vacation area.
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  • Type: Town with 6,590 residents
  • Description: town in Massachusetts, U.S.
  • Also known as: “Chatham Village”, “Chatham, MA”, “Chatham, Massachusetts”, “Manamoyik”, “Monimoy”, “Monomoyick”, and “Port Fortune”
  • Postal code: 02633

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chatham Lighthouse and Eldredge Public Library.

Lighthouse
Photo: Ted Kerwin, CC BY 2.0.
, known as Twin Lights prior to 1923, is a lighthouse in Chatham, Massachusetts, near the "elbow" of . The original station, close to the shore, was built in 1808 with two wooden towers, which were both replaced in 1841.

Library
Photo: Biruitorul, Public domain.
is the public library of Chatham, Massachusetts. It is located at 564 Main Street, in a National Register-listed Romanesque Revival building donated by Chatham native Marcellus Eldredge. It was designed by architect A. M. Marble.

Cemetery
Photo: Stephen Senter, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Chatham.

Hamlet
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a census-designated place in the town of Chatham in , , United States. The population was 1,410 at the 2010 census.

Chatham

Latitude
41.6823° or 41° 40′ 56″ north
Longitude
-69.9595° or 69° 57′ 34″ west
Population
6,590
Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US CA3
Open location code
87HGM2JR+W5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158911070
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4932844
Wiki­data ID
Q1774812
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Chatham” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تشاتهام”
  • Armenian: “Չաթհեմ”
  • Basque: “Chatham”
  • Bulgarian: “Чатъм”
  • Catalan: “Chatham”
  • Cebuano: “Chatham”
  • Chechen: “Чатгем”
  • Chinese: “Chatham”
  • Chinese: “查坦”
  • Chinese: “查塔姆”
  • Czech: “Chatham”
  • Danish: “Chatham”
  • Dutch: “Chatham”
  • Finnish: “Chatham”
  • French: “Aéroport municipal de Chatham”
  • French: “Chatham Municipal Airport”
  • French: “Chatham”
  • Galician: “Chatham”
  • German: “Chatham”
  • Haitian: “Chatham, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Chatham”
  • Hebrew: “צ’טהאם”
  • Hungarian: “Chatham”
  • Irish: “Chatham”
  • Italian: “Chatham”
  • Japanese: “チャタム”
  • Kazakh: “Çatxam”
  • Kazakh: “Чатхам”
  • Kazakh: “تشاتحام”
  • Kirghiz: “Чатхам”
  • Malayalam: “ചാതം, മസാച്യുസെറ്റ്‌സ്”
  • Mazanderani: “چتم (ماساچوست)”
  • Mazanderani: “چتم”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chatham”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chatham”
  • Persian: “چتم، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “چتم”
  • Polish: “Chatham”
  • Portuguese: “Chatham”
  • Russian: “Чатем”
  • Serbian: “Чатам”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chatham, Massachusetts”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chatham”
  • Silesian: “Chatham”
  • Slovak: “Chatham”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چاتام، ماساچوست”
  • Spanish: “Chatham”
  • Swedish: “Chatham, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Chatham”
  • Tajik: “Чатам”
  • Tatar: “Чатгем”
  • Turkish: “Chatham, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Chatham”
  • Ukrainian: “Чатгем”
  • Volapük: “Chatham”
  • Welsh: “Chatham, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Chatham”
  • “Chatham”

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