Mattapan Heights

Mattapan Heights is a residential area in City of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Mattapan Heights is situated nearby to Boston Center for Youth and Families Gallivan Community Center, as well as near the forest Gladeside I.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Morton Street station and Blue Hill Avenue station.

Morton Street station

Railway station

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Morton Street station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station on Fairmount Line located on Morton Street in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston. With two full-length high-level platforms and ramps to the street, the station is accessible. Morton Street station is situated 2,200 feet north of Mattapan Heights.

Blue Hill Avenue station

Railway station

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Blue Hill Avenue station is a regional rail station on the MBTA Commuter Rail Fairmount Line located in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Blue Hill Avenue station is situated 3,600 feet west of Mattapan Heights.

Mattapan station

Railway station

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Mattapan station is an MBTA light rail station in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the southern terminus of the Mattapan Line, part of the Red Line, and is also an important MBTA bus transfer station, with eight routes terminating there. Mattapan station is situated 3,600 feet southwest of Mattapan Heights.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mattapan and Lower Mills.

Mattapan

Suburb

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Mattapan is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Mattapan is the original Massachusett name for the Dorchester area, possibly meaning "a place to sit." At the 2010 census, it had a population of 36,480, with the majority of its population being immigrants.

Lower Mills

Neighborhood

Photo: Marcbela, Public domain.

The Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District is a historic district on both sides of the Neponset River in the Dorchester area of Boston and in the town of Milton, Massachusetts.

Ashmont

Neighborhood

Ashmont is a section of the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It includes the subsections of Ashmont Hill, Peabody Square, and Ashmont-Adams.

Mattapan Heights

Type: Residential area
Location: City of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.2747° or 42° 16′ 29″ north

Longitude

-71.08309° or 71° 4′ 59″ west

Open location code

87JC7WF8+VQ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 821960065

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=residential

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Boston Center for Youth and Families Gallivan Community Center and Gladeside I.

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