Lincoln County
Lincoln County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maine. As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,237. Its seat is Wiscasset. The county was founded in 1760 by the Massachusetts General Court from a portion of York County, Massachusetts and named after the English city Lincoln, the birthplace of Massachusetts Bay Provincial Governor Thomas Pownall.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Wiscasset and Jefferson.
Wiscasset
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Wiscasset is a town in and the seat of Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The municipality is located in the state of Maine's Mid Coast region. The population was 3,742 as of the 2020 census.
Jefferson
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Jefferson is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,551 at the 2020 census. Damariscotta Lake State Park, a popular Mid Coast swimming, canoeing and picnic area, is located within the town limits.
Whitefield
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Whitefield is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,408 at the 2020 census. Whitefield is named for the celebrated British evangelist George Whitefield, who inspired the colonists before the town was settled in 1770, mainly by Irish Catholics.
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Edgecomb
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Edgecomb is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,188 at the 2020 census. It includes the neighborhoods of East Edgecomb, North Edgecomb, and Pools Landing.
Bristol
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Bristol, known from 1632 to 1765 as Pemaquid, is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,834 at the 2020 census. A fishing and resort area, Bristol includes the villages of New Harbor, Pemaquid, Round Pond, Bristol Mills and Chamberlain.
Boothbay Harbor
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Boothbay Harbor is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,027 at the 2020 census. It includes the neighborhoods of Mount Pisgah, and Sprucewold, the Bayville and West Boothbay Harbor villages, the Isle of Springs summer colony, and the Boothbay Harbor census-designated place.
New Harbor
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New Harbor is a small scenic coastal village in the town of Bristol, in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. In 2019, the town of Bristol, and in turn New Harbor, was a finalist in the Reader's Digest award for "America's Nicest Place." Bristol and New Harbor were also nominated for and won the "Nicest Place in Maine Award" by Reader's Digest.
Lincoln County
- Type: county of Maine with 35,200 residents
- Description: county in Maine, United States
- Also known as: “Lincoln”, “Lincoln County, Maine”, and “Lincoln County, ME”
- Neighbors: Knox County, Sagadahoc County, and Waldo County
- Location: Mid Coast, Maine, New England, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Lincoln County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Lincoln County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة لينكولن”
- Armenian: “Լինկոլն շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Lincoln”
- Basque: “Lincoln konderria”
- Bavarian: “Lincoln County, Maine”
- Bavarian: “Lincoln County”
- Belarusian: “Лінкальн (акруга, Мэн)”
- Belarusian: “Лінкальн”
- Bishnupriya: “লিঙ্কন কাউন্টি, মেইন”
- Bishnupriya: “লিঙ্কন কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Линкълн”
- Catalan: “comtat de Lincoln”
- Catalan: “Lincoln County”
- Cebuano: “Lincoln County”
- Chechen: “Линкольн (гуо, Мэн)”
- Chechen: “Линкольн”
- Chinese: “Lincoln Kūn”
- Chinese: “林肯县”
- Chinese: “林肯縣”
- Dutch: “Lincoln County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Lincoln”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Lincoln”
- Esperanto: “Lincoln County”
- Estonian: “Lincolni maakond”
- Finnish: “Lincolnin piirikunta”
- French: “Comte de Lincoln”
- French: “comté de Lincoln”
- French: “Comté de Lincoln”
- French: “Lincoln County”
- Georgian: “ლინკოლნის ოლქი”
- German: “Lincoln County”
- Gilaki: “لینکلن شهرستان (مین)”
- Gilaki: “لینکلن شهرستان”
- Greek: “κομητεία Λίνκολν”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Λίνκολν”
- Hebrew: “לינקולן”
- Hebrew: “מחוז לינקולן”
- Hungarian: “Lincoln megye”
- Irish: “Contae Lincoln, Maine”
- Irish: “Contae Lincoln”
- Italian: “contea di Lincoln”
- Italian: “Contea di Lincoln”
- Italian: “Lincoln County”
- Japanese: “リンカーン郡”
- Korean: “링컨군”
- Low German: “Lincoln County”
- Marathi: “लिंकन काउंटी, मेन”
- Marathi: “लिंकन काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “لینکلن شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Lincoln Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lincoln Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Lincoln County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lincoln County i Maine”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lincoln County”
- Norwegian: “Lincoln County”
- Persian: “شهرستان لینکلن، مین”
- Persian: “شهرستان لینکلن”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Lincoln”
- Portuguese: “condado de Lincoln”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Lincoln”
- Portuguese: “Lincoln County”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Lincoln, Maine”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Lincoln”
- Russian: “Линкольн”
- Sardinian: “contea de Lincoln”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lincoln County”
- Serbian: “Округ Линколн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lincoln County, Maine”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lincoln County”
- Spanish: “Condado de Lincoln (Maine)”
- Spanish: “condado de Lincoln”
- Spanish: “Condado de Lincoln”
- Spanish: “Lincoln County”
- Swedish: “Lincoln County, Maine”
- Swedish: “Lincoln County”
- Tatar: “Линкольн (округ, Мэн)”
- Tatar: “Линкольн”
- Turkish: “Lincoln County, Maine”
- Turkish: “Lincoln County, Me.”
- Turkish: “Lincoln County, ME”
- Turkish: “Lincoln County”
- Turkish: “Lincoln ilçesi, Maine”
- Turkish: “Lincoln ilçesi, Me.”
- Turkish: “Lincoln ilçesi, ME”
- Turkish: “Lincoln ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Лінкольн”
- Urdu: “لنکن کاؤنٹی، میئن”
- Venetian: “contea de Lincoln”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Lincoln, Maine”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Lincoln”
- Welsh: “Lincoln County, Maine”
- Welsh: “Lincoln County”
- Western Panjabi: “لنکن کاؤنٹی”
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