Brockton is a city in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States; the population was 93,810 in the 2010 Census. Brockton, along with Plymouth, are the county seats of Plymouth County. Brockton is the seventh largest city in Massachusetts and is sometimes referred to as the "City of Champions", due to the success of native boxers Rocky Marciano and Marvin Hagler, as well as its successful Brockton High School sports programs. Two of the villages within the city are Montello and Campello, both have the distinction of having their own MBTA Commuter Rail Stations and post offices. Campello is the smallest neighborhood in the city, but also the most populous. Brockton hosts a baseball team, the Brockton Rox. Brockton is one of the windiest cities in the United States, with an average wind speed of 14.3 mph.
Population: 93,810
Latitude: 42° 05' 0.35" N
Longitude: -71° 01' 6.17" W
Monponsett Pond Seaplane Base (FAA LID: MA6) is a privately owned, public-use seaplane base located two miles (3 km) northwest of the central business district of Halifax, a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.
Monponsett Pond, also called Monponsett Lake and the Twin Lakes, is actually a system of two ponds, West and East, mostly in Halifax, Massachusetts, with a small portion of West Monponsett Pond extending into Hanson. The western basin is 282 acres (…
Miscoe Lake is a reservoir in Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island. It is about 0.8 miles long and the northern tip of the lake lies in Wrentham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. At normal levels it has a surface area of 49 acres.
Micajah Heights is a neighborhood in Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, in the West Plymouth section of the town, southwest of Billington Sea.
Medfield is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Medfield in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.
Route 115 is a short south–north highway in southeastern Massachusetts.
Lonsdale (also known as Londsdale) is a village and historic district in Lincoln and Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States, near Rhode Island Route 146 and Route 95. The village was originally part of the town of Smithfield unti…
Little Sandy Bottom Pond is a 54-acre (220,000 m2) pond in Pembroke, Massachusetts, in the Bryantville section of town.
Little Pond is a 43-acre (170,000 m2) cold water pond in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The pond is located in Morton Park, adjacent to Billington Sea. The average depth is 19 feet (5.8 m) and the maximum depth is 51 feet (16 m). There are 1.2 miles (1.9 …
Langlee Island or Langley Island is an island in the Hingham Bay area of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. The island has a permanent size of 4 acres (16,000 m2), plus an intertidal zone of a further 3 acres (12,000 m2), and is com…
Lake Rico is a 166-acre (0.67 km2) freshwater lake within Massasoit State Park in Taunton, Massachusetts. The lake takes up about nearly a quarter of Massasoit State Park. There are many coves, minor islands, and a few major islands located within t…
Kingston is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Kingston in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.
Hopedale is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Hopedale in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.
Hanson is a passenger rail station on MBTA Commuter Rail's Plymouth/Kingston Line.
Fort Andrew was a six-gun Patriot fort also known as Gurnet Fort. Once located at Gurnet Point, it was rebuilt in 1808, and again in 1863 and was renamed. It became a federal fort in 1869. The reservation was sold in 1926 and became private property…
Forge Pond is a 14-acre (57,000 m2) pond in the Chiltonville section of Plymouth, Massachusetts, within the Eel River watershed.
Duxbury Bay is a bay on the coast of Massachusetts in the United States. The west shore of the bay is the town of Duxbury, Massachusetts; and the bay is formed by a sandbar called The Gurnet extending southeasterly from Marshfield, Massachusetts int…
Cohasset Station is a rail station on the MBTA Commuter Rail system in Cohasset, Massachusetts. The station, located at 115 Chief Justice Cushing Highway (Route 3A), is the eighth of ten along the MBTA's Greenbush Line, which provides service betwee…