Rhode Island
Newport County
Town of Little Compton

Little Compton

Little Compton is a rural farming town in in southeastern . It includes the villages of Adamsville and Sakonnet. It is between the Sakonnet River on its west and and the West Branch of the Westport River to the east.
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  • Type: Town with 3,540 residents
  • Description: town in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States
  • Also known as: “Common”, “Compton”, “Compton Commons”, “Little Compton Common”, “Little Compton Commons”, “Little Compton, Rhode Island”, “Little Compton, RI”, “Saughkonet”, “Seaconnet”, “Sogkonate”, and “The Commons”
  • Postal code: 02837

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brownell Library and Little Compton Historic District.

Library
Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historic site
Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a historic site.

Little Compton

Latitude
41.5101° or 41° 30′ 36″ north
Longitude
-71.1712° or 71° 10′ 16″ west
Population
3,540
Elevation
105 feet (32 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US TMT
Open location code
87HCGR6H+2G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158811402
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5223129
Wiki­data ID
Q2448539
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Little Compton” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ليتل كومبتون”
  • Basque: “Little Compton”
  • Catalan: “Little Compton”
  • Chechen: “Литтл-Комптон”
  • Chinese: “小康普頓”
  • Dutch: “Little Compton”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليتل كومبتون”
  • Finnish: “Little Compton”
  • French: “Little Compton”
  • German: “Little Compton”
  • Haitian: “Little Compton, Rhode”
  • Haitian: “Little Compton”
  • Hebrew: “ליטל קומפטון”
  • Hungarian: “Little Compton”
  • Irish: “Little Compton”
  • Italian: “Little Compton”
  • Japanese: “リトルコンプトン”
  • Korean: “리틀콤프턴”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Little Compton”
  • Polish: “Little Compton”
  • Portuguese: “Little Compton”
  • Russian: “Литл-Комптон”
  • Spanish: “Little Compton (Rhode Island)”
  • Spanish: “Little Compton”
  • Swedish: “Little Compton, Rhode Island”
  • Swedish: “Little Compton”
  • Tatar: “Литтл-Комптон”
  • Turkish: “Little Compton”
  • Ukrainian: “Літтл-Комптон”
  • Urdu: “لٹل کامپٹن، روڈ آئلینڈ”
  • Volapük: “Little Compton, Rhode Island”
  • Volapük: “Little Compton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Little Compton, Rhode Island”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Little Compton”
  • Welsh: “Little Compton, Rhode Island”
  • Welsh: “Little Compton”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Little Compton”. Photo: Zhengan, CC BY-SA 4.0.