Skowhegan

Skowhegan is the county seat of , United States. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 8,620. It contains the census-designated place of the same name.
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  • Type: Town with 6,400 residents
  • Description: town in Somerset County, Maine, United States
  • Also known as: “Milburn”, “Skowhegan (Maine)”, “Skowhegan, Maine”, “Skowhegan, ME”, “סקואוואגן”, “שוואגן”, “スコウヒーガン (メイン州)”, and “スコウヒガン (メイン州)”
  • Postal code: 04976

Places of Interest

Highlights: History House and Somerset County Courthouse.

Museum
Photo: Boscophotos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Skowhegan is a historic house and museum at 66 Elm Street in Skowhegan, Maine. Built in 1839, this two-story brick house is one of the few of that period to survive Skowhegan's industrialization later in the 19th century.

Courthouse
Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a historic county government building on Court Street in downtown Skowhegan, Maine, the county seat of .

Library
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The Skowhegan Free Public Library is the public library of Skowhegan, Maine. It is located at 9 Elm Street, in an architecturally significant Queen Anne brick building designed by Edwin E.

Skowhegan

Latitude
44.7651° or 44° 45′ 54″ north
Longitude
-69.7194° or 69° 43′ 10″ west
Population
6,400
Elevation
171 feet (52 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US SH5
Open location code
87PGQ78J+26
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158901925
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4978701
Wiki­data ID
Q1002388
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Skowhegan” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Skowhegan herria (Maine)”
  • Basque: “Skowhegan herria”
  • Bulgarian: “Скаухигън”
  • Catalan: “Skowhegan”
  • Cebuano: “Skowhegan”
  • Chechen: “Сковеган”
  • Chinese: “斯科希甘”
  • Chinese: “斯考希根”
  • Dutch: “Skowhegan”
  • Finnish: “Skowhegan”
  • French: “Skowhegan”
  • German: “Skowhegan”
  • Haitian: “Skowhegan, Maine”
  • Haitian: “Skowhegan”
  • Hebrew: “סקאוהיגן”
  • Hungarian: “Skowhegan”
  • Irish: “Skowhegan”
  • Italian: “Skowhegan”
  • Japanese: “スカウヒーガン”
  • Kazakh: “Skovxegan”
  • Kazakh: “Сковхеган”
  • Kazakh: “سكوۆحەگان”
  • Kirghiz: “Сковхеган”
  • Mazanderani: “اسکوهیگان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Skowhegan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Skowhegan”
  • Norwegian: “Skowhegan”
  • Persian: “اسکوهیگان”
  • Polish: “Skowhegan”
  • Portuguese: “Skowhegan”
  • Romanian: “Skowhegan”
  • Russian: “Скаухиган”
  • Russian: “Сковхеган”
  • Serbian: “Skowhegan, Maine”
  • Serbian: “Skowhegan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Skowhegan, Maine”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Skowhegan”
  • Slovenian: “Skowhegan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اسکوهیقان، مین”
  • Spanish: “Skowhegan”
  • Swedish: “Skowhegan”
  • Tatar: “Сковеган”
  • Turkish: “Skowhegan”
  • Ukrainian: “Сковеган”
  • Urdu: “سکاوہیگن، میئن”
  • Volapük: “Skowhegan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Skowhegan, Maine”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Skowhegan”
  • Welsh: “Skowhegan, Maine”
  • Welsh: “Skowhegan”

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