Erving's Location is a
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
in
Coös County,
New Hampshire
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, United States. As of the
2020 census, the population of the township was zero.
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).
There is a dirt road that starts at
New Hampshire State Route 26 in
Millsfield just north of a pond and ends to the west in Erving's Location's northeast corner. It is the only way to get to Erving's Location without hiking.
History
In 1775, a
land grant
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was made to Captain William Erving of
Boston
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, who had fought in the
French and Indian Wars
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.
Geography
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the location has a total area of , all land.
It is drained by
Phillips Brook, which rises in the township and flows south to the
Upper Ammonoosuc River
The Upper Ammonoosuc River is a tributary of the Connecticut River that flows through Coös County in the northern part of the northeastern U.S. state of New Hampshire. Despite its name, the river is not an upstream portion of the Ammonoosuc Ri ...
in
Stark, part of the
Connecticut River
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watershed. The northeast corner of the township is drained by the West Branch of
Clear Stream, flowing east to the
Androscoggin River
The Androscoggin River (Abenaki: ''Ammoscongon'') is a river in the U.S. states of Maine and New Hampshire, in northern New England. It is U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data''The National Map'', a ...
in
Errol. The township's highest point is above
sea level
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, along its eastern boundary, partway up the slope of
Mount Kelsey, the summit of which is located in
Millsfield.
Adjacent municipalities
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Dixville (north)
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Millsfield (east)
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Odell (south)
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Columbia (west)
Demographics
In the
2020 census, no people were recorded as living in Erving's Location.
References
Townships in Coös County, New Hampshire
Berlin, New Hampshire micropolitan area
Townships in New Hampshire
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