Belmont, Massachusetts

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Belmont
town hall
town hall
Location in Massachusetts
Belmont, Massachusetts
Belmont
Belmont
Basic data
Foundation : 1859
State : United States
State : Massachusetts
County : Middlesex County
Coordinates : 42 ° 24 ′  N , 71 ° 11 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 24 ′  N , 71 ° 11 ′  W
Time zone : Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents : 24,729 (as of 2010)
Population density : 2,027 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 12.2 km 2  (approx. 5 mi 2 )
Height : 15 m
Postal code : 02478
Area code : +1 617, 857
FIPS : 25-05105
GNIS ID : 612147
Website : www.town.belmont.ma.us

Belmont is a small suburb of Boston ( United States ) in Middlesex County from Massachusetts . The place borders on Cambridge to the west . Other neighboring towns are Arlington , Lexington , Waltham and Watertown . The entire urban area has been built on since around 1940, and the number of inhabitants has fluctuated around 25,000 since then.

Industry and commerce

Belmont is primarily a living and sleeping village with no industry worth mentioning.

environment

Due to the old building structure and the lead-containing wall paint used at the time, most of the houses in Belmont are contaminated with lead. Small children should not live in such apartments, the landlord is obliged to partially renovate them if a small child suddenly lives there. The landlord can prove that the lead paint has been painted over with a "de-leading certificate".

Infrastructure

From the one-time connection to long-distance rail traffic, one line of the Boston public transport company remains. Belmont is a stop on the Boston – Fitchburg local line , approximately 50 km east of where the line ends. Belmont has no connection to the Boston subway network, the terminus of the Red Line ("Alewife") is less than 1 km west in Cambridge. However, several bus routes connect Belmont to the Harvard Square stop.

Sons and daughters

Web links

Commons : Belmont, Massachusetts  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files