A Listing of Counties
and the Cities and Towns Within
Cities are in capital letters. * indicates County Seat.
There are fourteen communities that have applied for, and been granted, city forms of government, though they wish to be known as “The Town of”. They are: AGAWAM, AMHERST, BARNSTABLE, BRAINTREE, BRIDGEWATER, FRANKLIN, NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, PALMER, RANDOLPH, SOUTHBRIDGE, WATERTOWN, WEST SPRINGFIELD, WEYMOUTH and WINTHROP. There are five communities that have been granted the title of city though they do not have wards; they are: AMESBURY, EASTHAMPTON, GREENFIELD, METHUEN and FRAMINGHAM.
Barnstable County
BARNSTABLE*
Bourne
Brewster
Chatham
Dennis
Eastham
Falmouth
Harwich
Mashpee
Orleans
Provincetown
Sandwich
Truro
Wellfleet
Yarmouth
Berkshire County
Adams
Alford
Becket
Cheshire
Clarksburg
Dalton
Egremont
Florida
Great Barrington
Hancock
Hinsdale
Lanesborough
Lee
Lenox
Monterey
Mt. Washington
New Ashford
New Marlborough
NORTH ADAMS
Otis
Peru
PITTSFIELD*
Richmond
Sandisfield
Savoy
Sheffield
Stockbridge
Tyringham
Washington
West Stockbridge
Williamstown
Windsor
Bristol County
Acushnet
ATTLEBORO
Berkley
Dartmouth
Dighton
Easton
Fairhaven
FALL RIVER*
Freetown
Mansfield
NEW BEDFORD*
NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH
Norton
Raynham
Rehoboth
Seekonk
Somerset
Swansea
TAUNTON*
Westport
Dukes County
Aquinnah
Chilmark
Edgartown*
Gosnold
Oak Bluffs
Tisbury
West Tisbury
Essex County
AMESBURY
Andover
BEVERLY
Boxford
Danvers
Essex
Georgetown
GLOUCESTER
Groveland
Hamilton
HAVERHILL
Ipswich
LAWRENCE*
LYNN
Lynnfield
Manchester by the sea
Marblehead
Merrimac
METHUEN
Middleton
Nahant
Newbury
NEWBURYPORT*
North Andover
PEABODY
Rockport
Rowley
SALEM*
Salisbury
Saugus
Swampscott
Topsfield
Wenham
West Newbury
Franklin County
Ashfield
Bernardston
Buckland
Charlemont
Colrain
Conway
Deerfield
Erving
Gill
GREENFIELD*
Hawley
Heath
Leverett
Leyden
Monroe
Montague
New Salem
Northfield
Orange
Rowe
Shelburne
Shutesbury
Sunderland
Warwick
Wendell
Whately
Hampden County
AGAWAM
Blandford
Brimfield
Chester
CHICOPEE
East Longmeadow
Granville
Hampden
Holland
HOLYOKE
Longmeadow
Ludlow
Monson
Montgomery
PALMER
Russell
Southwick
SPRINGFIELD*
Tolland
Wales
WEST SPRINGFIELD
WESTFIELD
Wilbraham
Hampshire County
AMHERST
Belchertown
Chesterfield
Cummington
EASTHAMPTON
Goshen
Granby
Hadley
Hatfield
Huntington
Middlefield
NORTHAMPTON*
Pelham
Plainfield
South Hadley
Southampton
Ware
Westhampton
Williamsburg
Worthington
Middlesex County
Acton
Arlington
Ashby
Ashland
Ayer
Bedford
Belmont
Billerica
Boxborough
Burlington
CAMBRIDGE*
Carlisle
Chelmsford
Concord
Dracut
Dunstable
EVERETT
FRAMINGHAM
Groton
Holliston
Hopkinton
Hudson
Lexington
Lincoln
Littleton
LOWELL*
MALDEN
MARLBOROUGH
Maynard
MEDFORD
MELROSE
Natick
NEWTON
North Reading
Pepperell
Reading
Sherborn
Shirley
SOMERVILLE
Stoneham
Stow
Sudbury
Tewksbury
Townsend
Tyngsborough
Wakefield
WALTHAM
WATERTOWN
Wayland
Westford
Weston
Wilmington
Winchester
WOBURN
Nantucket County
Nantucket*
Norfolk County
Avon
Bellingham
BRAINTREE
Brookline
Canton
Cohasset
Dedham*
Dover
Foxborough
FRANKLIN
Holbrook
Medfield
Medway
Millis
Milton
Needham
Norfolk
Norwood
Plainville
QUINCY
RANDOLPH
Sharon
Stoughton
Walpole
Wellesley
Westwood
WEYMOUTH
Wrentham
Plymouth County
Abington
Bridgewater
BROCKTON*
Carver
Duxbury
East Bridgewater
Halifax
Hanover
Hanson
Hingham
Hull
Kingston
Lakeville
Marion
Marshfield
Mattapoisett
Middleborough
Norwell
Pembroke
Plymouth*
Plympton
Rochester
Rockland
Scituate
Wareham
West Bridgewater
Whitman
Suffolk County
BOSTON*
CHELSEA
REVERE
WINTHROP
Worcester County
Ashburnham
Athol
Auburn
Barre
Berlin
Blackstone
Bolton
Boylston
Brookfield
Charlton
Clinton
Douglas
Dudley
East Brookfield
FITCHBURG*
GARDNER
Grafton
Hardwick
Harvard
Holden
Hopedale
Hubbardston
Lancaster
Leicester
LEOMINSTER
Lunenburg
Mendon
Milford
Millbury
Millville
New Braintree
North Brookfield
Northborough
Northbridge
Oakham
Oxford
Paxton
Petersham
Phillipston
Princeton
Royalston
Rutland
Shrewsbury
Southborough
SOUTHBRIDGE
Spencer
Sterling
Sturbridge
Sutton
Templeton
Upton
Uxbridge
Warren
Webster
West Boylston
West Brookfield
Westborough
Westminster
Winchendon
WORCESTER*