Shirley

Shirley is a city in with a population of 7,000. The town was named for former Governor William Shirley, and was settled in 1720 and incorporated in 1775.
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  • 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.

Church

Prison
is a supermax security prison in . It is operated by the Massachusetts Department of Correction.

Railway stop
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.

Town
is a regional enterprise zone and census-designated place in the towns of and Shirley and in the U.S. state of . It is the successor to , a military post that operated from 1917 to 1996.

Shirley

Latitude
42.5438° or 42° 32′ 38″ north
Longitude
-71.6498° or 71° 38′ 59″ west
Population
7,430
Elevation
285 feet (87 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US SJR
Open location code
87JCG9V2+G3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158909090
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4950848
Wiki­data ID
Q2318103
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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.