Hampshire County is a non-governmental county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of 2000, the population was 152,251. Its largest municipality is Amherst, and its county seat is Northampton.
Hampshire County is part of the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Hampshire County was formed in 1662 out of Middlesex County, an original county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony which organized counties in 1643. Like a number of Massachus...
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Hampshire County is a non-governmental county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of 2000, the population was 152,251. Its largest municipality is Amherst, and its county seat is Northampton.
Hampshire County is part of the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Hampshire County was formed in 1662 out of Middlesex County, an original county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony which organized counties in 1643. Like a number of Massachusetts counties, Hampshire County exists today only as a historical geographic region and a judicial district and has no county government. All former county functions were assumed by state agencies in 1999. The sheriff and some other regional officials with specific duties are still elected locally to perform duties within the county region, yet there is no county council or commissioner. However, communities are now granted the right to form their own regional compacts for sharing services. Hampshire County and Hampden County are part of the...
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