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Francestown (CDP), New Hampshire

census-designated place in New Hampshire, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ105702244 ↗
Source-derived summary

Francestown is a census-designated place (CDP) and the main village in the town of Francestown, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the CDP was 201, out of 1,610 in the entire town.

Geography

The CDP is in the center of the town of Francestown and extends west as far as Perley Road, north past Hiram Patch Lane, northeast to Todd Road, east past Potash Road, south to Old County Road South, and southwest to Champagne Road. The Francestown Town Hall and Academy and Town Common Historic District occupies the center of the CDP.

New Hampshire Route 136 passes through the center of the community, leading east 7 miles (11 km) to New Boston and southwest 4 miles (6 km) to Greenfield. New Hampshire Route 47 has its southern terminus in Francestown and leads northwest 7 miles (11 km) to Bennington. Second New Hampshire Turnpike, a local road, leads southeast 9 miles (14 km) to Mont Vernon.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Francestown CDP has a total area of 0.93 square miles (2.4 km2), all land. The South Branch Piscataquog River, here a large brook, runs through the east side of the CDP and is part of the Merrimack River watershed.

Demographics

Francestown was first listed as a census designated place in the 2020 U.S. census.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Francestown (CDP), New Hampshire” as census-designated place in New Hampshire, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Francestown, Hampshire and census-designated can be independently traced.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q105702244. Authority coordinates are 42.988, -71.813. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Francestown (CDP), New Hampshire” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.