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Somersworth (N.H.)

LC control no.n 81039246
Descriptive conventionsrda
Geographic headingSomersworth (N.H.)
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Geographic subdivision usageNew Hampshire--Somersworth
Variant(s)Somersworth, N.H.
Great Falls (N.H.)
Sligo (N.H.)
Sumersworth (N.H.)
Summersworth (N.H.)
Associated placeStrafford County (N.H.)
Found inInterstate Publishing Company, inc., Everett, Mass. Latest map of Dover ... 1955.
GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 43°15ʹ42ʺN 070°51ʹ55ʺW)
GNIS, February 4, 2016 (Somersworth; populated place; Strafford County, New Hampshire; variant names: Great Falls; Sligo; Sumersworth; Summersworth; 43°15ʹ42ʺN 070°51ʹ55ʺW)
Wikipedia, February 4, 2016 (Somersworth, New Hampshire; Somersworth is a city in Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States; Somersworth, originally called Sligo after Sligo in Ireland, was settled before 1700 as a part of Dover; it was organized in 1729 as the parish of Summersworth; it was set off and incorporated in 1754 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, and until 1849 included Rollinsford; a clerical error at incorporation contracted the name to Somersworth; it was incorporated as a city in 1893, before which it was also known as Great Falls)
Geographic area coden-us-nh