Talk:List of towns in Massachusetts

Number
Where did the number 301 come from? I am alwasy hearing from the news, Mass Lottery commercials, etc. that there are 351 cities and towns, not 301. --Netmaster5k 18:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I was confused about the cities/towns number as well until I realized a city near my home town was not present on the list. I then discovered that there is a separate list, List of cities in Massachusetts, which contains fifty cities. 301 towns in addition to 50 cities results in the previously stated number of 351.

Barnstable
Barnstable is a town not a city. http://www.town.barnstable.ma.us-Marcus 19:55, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * No, it is a city. It is called "The Town of Barnstable" but it is a city.  See http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/cisctlist/ctlistalph.htm. —Markles 23:02, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Comment left by 71.161.58.103:
 * Barnstable IS a town and a village and a county. Three separate entities, three separate land masses. The VILLAGE of Barnstable is in the TOWN of Barnstable which is in the COUNTY of Barnstable. Just because they have applied for city government model does not make it a city.
 * The Secretary of the Commonwealth's website states: "There are eleven communities in Massachusetts which have applied for, and been granted, city forms of government, though they wish to be known as 'the town of'. They are: Agawam, Amesbury, Barnstable, Easthampton, Franklin, Greenfield, Methuen, Southbridge, Watertown, West Springfield and Weymouth. This list shows them as cities, as that is how the courts recognize them." That should be good enough for this Wikipedia article.—Markles 16:08, 16 November 2007 (UTC)