Stacyville, Maine
human settlement in Penobscot County, Maine, United States of America
Stacyville is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States, in the foothills of Mount Katahdin. The population was 380 at the 2020 census.
It achieved national prominence in 1939 when 12-year-old Donn Fendler was lost on Katahdin for nine days, before being found in Stacyville on July 25, 1939.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 39.54 square miles (102.41 km2), of which 39.53 square miles (102.38 km2) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 396 people, 162 households, and 107 families living in the town. The population density was 10.0 inhabitants per square mile (3.9/km2). There were 224 housing units at an average density of 5.7 per square mile (2.2/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 96.5% White, 0.3% African American, 0.8% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.3% from other races, and 2.0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.8% of the population.
There were 162 households, of which 31.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.1% were married couples living together, 11.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 6.8% had a male householder with no wife present, and 34.0% were non-families.
“Stacyville, Maine” enters the record as human settlement in Penobscot County, Maine, United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Stacyville, Maine and human can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3448245. VIAF identifies the subject as 124538770. The Library of Congress control number is n2004024153. Authority coordinates are 45.864, -68.505. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1939 and 2010.
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