Atkinson and Gilmanton Academy Grant is a

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in Coös County,

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. It was granted by the state legislature to Gilmanton Academy and Atkinson Academy in equal shares in 1809 and contained about . It was later expanded by annexation of previously ungranted land to the west. The population was zero as of the 2020 census. It is part of the

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, NH– VT Micropolitan Statistical Area. In New Hampshire, locations, grants, townships (which are different from towns), and purchases are unincorporated portions of a county which are not part of any town and have limited self-government (if any, as many are uninhabited). Atkinson and Gilmanton Academy Grant will fall within the path of totality during the

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Geography

According to the

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, the grant has a total area of , of which are land and or 0.57%, is covered by water. The township is drained by the

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and its branches, except for the eastern edge of the township, which is drained by Abbott Brook. Both waterways are tributaries of the

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and part of the

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watershed. The highest point is an unnamed ridge that reaches above

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near the grant's southwestern corner. The township is bordered to the east by the state of

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. The grant boundaries shown in 1874 maps differ from those of 1850s maps by showing a parcel of ungranted "state land" on the western edge of this grant (and north of Dix's Grant), and another " Dartmouth College Grant" to the west of that (later annexed to the eastern edge of Clarksville).

Demographics

As of the 2020 census, there were no people living in the township.

References

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