Wakefield
Wakefield is a village of the town of South Kingstown in the state of Rhode Island. Settlers came to Wakefield early in the 18th century due to its proximity to the Saugatucket River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 8,490 residents
- Description: census designated place in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States
- Also known as: “Wakefield-Peace Dale”, “Wakefield-Peacedale CDP”, “Wakefield-Peacedale, Rhode Island”, and “Wakefield-Peacedale, RI”
Places of Interest
Highlights include South County Hospital and South Kingstown High School.
South County Hospital
Hospital
South County Hospital is an independent, non-profit acute care hospital serving southern Rhode Island. It is located in Wakefield, Rhode Island.
South Kingstown High School
School
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South Kingstown High School, originally known as the Wakefield High School is a public high school located in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Approximately 931 students attend South Kingstown High School in grades 9–12.
Broad Rock Middle School
School
Wakefield is a village in the town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States, and the commercial center of South Kingstown. Together with the village of Peace Dale, it is treated by the U.S. Census as a component of the census-designated place identified as Wakefield-Peacedale. West Kingston, another South Kingstown village, was the traditional county seat of Washington County.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Kingstown and Narragansett.
South Kingstown
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South Kingstown is a town in the South County region of Rhode Island. South Kingstown showcases some of Rhode Island's oldest buildings, including the campus of the University of Rhode Island in the central village of Kingston.
Narragansett
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Narragansett is in South County, Rhode Island. It includes the beach villages of Galilee, Scarborough, Point Judith, and Bonnet Shores. Families and students enjoy Narragansett especially in the summer because beaches are so close.
Wakefield
Village
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Wakefield is a village in the town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States, and the commercial center of South Kingstown. Together with the village of Peace Dale, it is treated by the U.S. Census as a component of the census-designated place identified as Wakefield-Peacedale. West Kingston, another South Kingstown village, was the traditional county seat of Washington County.
Wakefield
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Volapük—“Wakefield” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Wakefield-Peacedale”
- Catalan: “Wakefield-Peacedale”
- Cebuano: “Wakefield-Peacedale”
- Chechen: “Вейкфилд-Писдейл”
- French: “Wakefield-Peacedale”
- German: “Wakefield-Peace Dale”
- German: “Wakefield-Peacedale”
- Hebrew: “וייקיפילד פיס דייל”
- Irish: “Wakefield-Peacedale”
- Italian: “Wakefield-Peacedale”
- Ladin: “Wakefield-Peacedale”
- Persian: “واکفیلد-پیسدال”
- Polish: “Wakefield-Peacedale”
- Serbian: “Вејкфилд-Писдејл”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wakefield-Peacedale, Rhode Island”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wakefield-Peacedale”
- Slovak: “Wakefield-Peace Dale”
- Spanish: “Wakefield-Peacedale (Rhode Island)”
- Spanish: “Wakefield-Peacedale”
- Tatar: “Вейкфилд-Писдейл”
- Turkish: “Wakefield-Peacedale”
- Ukrainian: “Вейкфілд-Пісдейл”
- Volapük: “Wakefield-Peacedale”
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