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Rye Beach, New Hampshire

Unincorporated community in New Hampshire, U.S.

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Rye Beach is an unincorporated community along the Atlantic Ocean in Rye, New Hampshire, United States. It is located along New Hampshire Route 1A near the southern border of the town of Rye, directly south of Jenness State Beach and north of Little Boar's Head. Rye Beach has a separate ZIP code (03871) from the rest of the town of Rye.

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The public source identifies “Rye Beach, New Hampshire” as unincorporated community in New Hampshire, U.S. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Beach, Hampshire and Unincorporated.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 61-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Beach, Hampshire and Unincorporated providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Rye Beach, 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.