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Exeter

town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States
Place new_england_town Q990504

Facts

19 properties

Identity

Instance of
New England town, human settlement, county seat[3]
Inception
1638[7]
Official website
www.town.exeter.nh.us, www.exeternh.gov[8][9]
Official name
Exeter[14]

Location

Country
United States[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 42.981°, -70.948°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Rockingham County[1]

Population and size

Area
+20.0[19]
Elevation above sea level
+10, +12[17][18]
Population
+14306, +16049[10][11]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 14,306 · 16,049 GeoNames 9,242 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
603[6]
Postal code
03833[5]
More facts +7
Capital of
Rockingham County
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The American Cyclopædia[12][13]
Different from
Exeter[16]
Located in the statistical territorial entity
Portsmouth metropolitan NECTA[20]
Named after
Exeter[4]
Number of households
+6693[15]
Per capita income
+57384[21]
🏷️ Also known as
en Exeter en Exeter, New Hampshire en Exeter, NH ar إيكستر es Exeter (Nuevo Hampshire) fa اکسیتر he אקסטר ja エクセター ru Эксетер tr Exeter, New Hampshire uk Ексетер zh 埃克塞特
🔖 Identifiers · 26
VIAF cluster ID
146565652
Library of Congress authority ID
n79018566
GND ID
4442962-9
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Water Street, Exeter NH.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
1927
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/United_States/New_Hampshire/Localities/E/Exeter/
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Exeter-New-Hampshire
FAST ID
1204490
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
33-25380
FactGrid item ID
1984–85 Ekstraklasa
Freebase ID
/m/01m9f1
GNIS Feature ID
873595
Show all 26 identifiers +14
GeoNames ID
5085966
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
exeter
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0445022
IdRef ID
196448867
MusicBrainz area ID
6d8247ea-3c82-40f9-99f2-649fc674f6d5
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007554811205171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
339435
Quora topic ID
Exeter-NH
Topic's main category
Category:Exeter, New Hampshire
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10046095
UN/LOCODE
USEXE
Who's on First ID
85975121
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJfrMKtKTbp8HbMJjj86Kd
Yale LUX ID
place/041b6f45-786c-4f41-81ae-2cf574929900

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🔗 Connections
People born here 29
Dan Brown, John Irving, Lewis Cass, Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Nicholas Gilman, Adam Lanza, Matt King, Ted King +21 more
People who died here 12
Sidney Darlington, Charles H. Bell, Gilman Marston, John S. Wells, Amos Tuck, John L. Sullivan, John Taylor Gilman, Nathaniel Folsom +4 more
Contained subdivisions 4
Phillips Exeter Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy Library, Exeter, Exeter News-Letter
Instance of 3
human settlement, county seat, New England town
Residents 3
Casey Phair, Chris Carpenter, Heather Jackson
← Headquarters location 2
Bauer Hockey, The Exonian
← Place of publication 2
The Exonian, Exeter News-Letter
Capital of 1
Rockingham County
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Exeter, New Hampshire
Country 1
United States
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Different from 1
Exeter
FactGrid item ID 1
1984–85 Ekstraklasa
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Rockingham County
Located in this place 1
Phillips Exeter Academy Library
Named after 1
Exeter
Named after 1
Exeter
Topic's main category 1
Category:Exeter, New Hampshire
← Capital 1
Rockingham County
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Exeter, New Hampshire
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Exeter, New Hampshire
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Rockingham County
← Work location 1
John Plumbe
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Cultural Significance

Things named for Exeter include Exeter[22], a village of Illinois[23], in United States[24].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Exeter include Exeter[22], a village of Illinois[23], in United States[24].

Related Entities

Dan Brown John Irving Lewis Cass United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Retrieved . books.google.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . data.census.gov. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [21] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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  1. 24w ago · 沈澄心 · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 42.981388888889, 'lon': -70.947777777778}
    IdRef ID → 196448867
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Rockingham County
    Inception → +1638-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 27 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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