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Boston

The City of Boston, Massachusetts. The subject of this archive, and the official place that contains every neighborhood boundary it holds.

The municipality of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

Also recorded as
City of Boston · Boston, Massachusetts

These are archival variants — spellings, translations, and former official names. Names people say that no authority granted are filed as claims, not here.

Place

official layer

An official boundary, promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it. It is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer.

Type
municipality
Authority
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
GNIS feature
617565

Official places within

Attested claims about this record

These are attestations, not adjudications. The archive records who says a thing and since when. Where two attestations disagree, both stand.

Boston was formerly named Shawmut

Attested by English Wikipedia (reference work) since as at the date of retrieval · attested

Boston was formerly named Shawmut

Attested by Samuel Adams Drake (folklorist) since 1884 · single source

Boston was formerly named Blackstone

Attested by Samuel Adams Drake (folklorist) since 1884 · single source

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:entity:boston
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/place/boston
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/place/boston.json
Version
1 · last changed 2 September 2026

Provenance

Source
Boston Planning Department neighborhood boundaries — source of record
Licence
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Source identifier
city-of-boston
Attribution
City of Boston
Rights as stated
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

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