Chilmark, Massachusetts
| Chilmark, Massachusetts | ||
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 Location in Dukes County in Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates: 41°20′35″N 70°44′43″W / 41.34306°N 70.74528°WCoordinates: 41°20′35″N 70°44′43″W / 41.34306°N 70.74528°W | ||
| Country | United States | |
| State | Massachusetts | |
| County | Dukes | |
| Settled | 1660 | |
| Incorporated | 1694 | |
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| • Type | Open town meeting | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 100.4 sq mi (260.1 km2) | |
| • Land | 19.0 sq mi (49.3 km2) | |
| • Water | 81.4 sq mi (210.8 km2) | |
| Elevation | 91 ft (28 m) | |
| Population (2010) | ||
| • Total | 866 | |
| • Density | 46/sq mi (17.6/km2) | |
| Time zone | Eastern (UTC-5) | |
| • Summer (DST) | Eastern (UTC-4) | |
| ZIP code | 02535 | |
| Area code(s) | 508/774 | |
| FIPS code | 25-13800 | |
| GNIS feature ID | 0618288 | |
| Website | www |
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Chilmark is a town located on Martha's Vineyard in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 866 at the 2010 census. The fishing village of Menemsha is located on the western side of the town along its border with the town of Aquinnah. Chilmark had the highest median home sale price of any town or city in Massachusetts in 2013.
Chilmark was first settled in 1660 by James Allen, William Peabody and Lt. Josiah Standish (son of Captain Myles Standish) in the southern portion of Tisbury. The town officially incorporated on September 14, 1694, the first town to separate from the two original towns of Tisbury and Edgartown. The new town was named for Chilmark, the ancestral home of the family of Governor Thomas Mayhew of Tisbury in the English county of Wiltshire.
The town was once known for its unusually high percentage of deaf citizens. In 1854, Chilmark had a deaf population of one in every 25 people, while the national average was one deaf person in 5,728. (See Martha's Vineyard Sign Language.) Today the town is mostly residential, with a small working harbor in Menemsha along the Vineyard Sound side of the town.
In August 2009, 2010 and 2011, President Barack Obama and his family vacationed in Chilmark, renting the Blue Heron Farm.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a land area of 19.0 square miles (49.3 km2). Chilmark ranks 192nd of the 351 communities in the Commonwealth in terms of land area. Chilmark is bordered by Vineyard Sound and Aquinnah to the west, West Tisbury to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south.
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