Shirley
Shirley is a city in Merrimack Valley with a population of 7,000. The town was named for former Governor William Shirley, and was settled in 1720 and incorporated in 1775.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bob Burkhardt, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Town with 7,430 residents
- Description: town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
- Also known as: “Shirley Village”, “Shirley, MA”, and “Shirley, Massachusetts”
- Postal code: 01464
Places of Interest
Highlights include United Church of Shirley and Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center.
Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center
Prison
Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center is a supermax security prison in Lancaster, Massachusetts. It is operated by the Massachusetts Department of Correction.
Shirley station
Railway stop
Photo: Adam Moss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shirley station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Shirley, Massachusetts. It serves the Fitchburg Line, and is located in the village center. The station consists of a short low-level platform with an asphalt patch for passengers to cross the tracks, plus a small wooden shelter on the inbound side.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Devens.
Devens
Town
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Devens is a regional enterprise zone and census-designated place in the towns of Ayer and Shirley and Harvard in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is the successor to Fort Devens, a military post that operated from 1917 to 1996.
Shirley
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.5438° or 42° 32′ 38″ northLongitude
-71.6498° or 71° 38′ 59″ westPopulation
7,430Elevation
285 feet (87 metres)United Nations Location Code
US SJROpen location code
87JCG9V2+G3OpenStreetMap ID
node 158909090OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Shirley” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Shirley”
- Catalan: “Shirley”
- Cebuano: “Shirley”
- Chechen: “Ширли”
- Chinese: “雪莉”
- Dutch: “Shirley”
- French: “Shirley”
- German: “Shirley”
- Haitian: “Shirley, Massachusetts”
- Haitian: “Shirley”
- Italian: “Shirley”
- Japanese: “シャーリー”
- Kazakh: “Şïrléý”
- Kazakh: “Ширлэй”
- Kazakh: “شىيرلەي”
- Kirghiz: “Ширлэй”
- Malayalam: “ഷേർളി”
- Mazanderani: “شرلی (ماساچوست)”
- Mazanderani: “شرلی”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shirley”
- Persian: “شرلی، ماساچوست”
- Persian: “شرلی”
- Polish: “Shirley”
- Portuguese: “Shirley”
- Russian: “Ширли”
- Serbian: “Ширли”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shirley, Massachusetts”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shirley”
- South Azerbaijani: “شیرلئی، ماساچوست”
- Spanish: “Shirley (Massachusetts)”
- Spanish: “Shirley”
- Swahili: “Shirley, Massachusetts”
- Swahili: “Shirley”
- Tatar: “Ширли”
- Turkish: “Shirley, Massachusetts”
- Turkish: “Shirley”
- Ukrainian: “Ширлі”
- Volapük: “Shirley”
- Welsh: “Shirley, Massachusetts”
- Welsh: “Shirley”
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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 “Shirley”. Photo: Bob Burkhardt, CC BY 3.0.