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Unless I'm mistaken, Tewksbury, Massachusetts is the largest True New England Town, as it has an open Town meating, I believe all the towns larger have a repersenitive Town Meeting, which differs from a city because it's excutive brance as an 7 or 9 people board of selectmen not a mayor.
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Unless I'm mistaken, Tewksbury, Massachusetts is the largest True New England Town, as it has an open Town meating, I believe all the towns larger have a repersenitive Town Meeting, which differs from a city because it's excutive brance as an 7 or 9 people board of selectmen not a mayor.
At 134 square miles and 56,000 people Plymouth, Mass is considerably much larger than Tewksbury. Plymouth falls under all the town criteria of hosting town meetings and electing selectmen. With such a large land area it also contains several villages within like Manomet, Cedarville, Pine Hills, & North Plymouth and it also has two high schools.
There is no standard country-wide convention that differentiates cities, towns, townships, villages, etc. from one another. Because of that, we can argue about this until the cows comes home, but we'll never have a definitive ranking of the top 30 US towns. Here is a ranking of the 576 micropolitan areas by population: Table of United States Micropolitan Statistical Areas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
I stand corrected. News articles make claims about the "city" I live in as being number x of US cities (the definition the journalist use is 250k) I see many references to but no clear definition. Thats what I get for believing a journalist I suppose. Im new to living in a town of just over 250k pop after living in Houston. With at least three magazine or news paper articles referencing us and the definition I assumed it was an official gov definition but it appears not to be so.
At 134 square miles and 56,000 people Plymouth, Mass is considerably much larger than Tewksbury. Plymouth falls under all the town criteria of hosting town meetings and electing selectmen. With such a large land area it also contains several villages within like Manomet, Cedarville, Pine Hills, & North Plymouth and it also has two high schools.
Pymouth has a Representative Town meeting, not an open Town Meeting like Tewksbury, so it is not a tradional New England Town, but an edited version to fit the growth of the Town.
If I remember correctly, anything unincorporated in Minnesota was part of a township. Parts of the township or the entire township could vote to incorporate (I think there was a minimum population requirement to do so) into a city. I could be 100% wrong on that, though-- it's just the explanation I got growing up.
I think PA's definition (where I live now) is entirely different. In Minnesota, a 'town' was not an official term. It just meant small city, as differentiated from the bigger cities or the suburbs. It was incorporated, but if you blinked you'd miss it. I think PA has 'towns' that are actually incorporated, and there's some sort of rule about population that differentiates it from cities. Also something I could be 100% wrong on, but my impression....
I'm pretty certain that Upper Darby is the largest township in the US at over 80,000 people.
Hempstead (might've spelled that wrong) NY is without a doubt the largest town, at almost 900,000 people I believe.
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