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Northampton is an incorporated city in and the county seat of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, on the west side of the Connecticut River in the Pioneer Valley.

A petition for the township was approved on May 18, 1653, European settlers arrived in the early spring of 1654, and Northampton officially became a city on September 5, 1883.

The 2020 census recorded a population of 29,571 in Northampton, including its outer villages of Florence and Leeds.

The 2020 census counted 12,799 households in Northampton.

Northampton covers a total area of 35.75 square miles, of which 34.25 square miles is land and 1.51 square miles is water, and about 21 percent of the city is permanently protected open space.

Smith College, founded in Northampton in 1871, is the largest of the Seven Sisters colleges, and the first game of women's basketball was played at Smith College in 1892.

The Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech, founded in Northampton in 1867, was the first permanent oral school for the deaf in the United States.

Congregational preacher Jonathan Edwards led a Christian revival in Northampton in 1734 that helped spark the Great Awakening of 1739-1740.

On August 29, 1786, Daniel Shays and a group of Revolutionary War veterans stopped the civil court from sitting in Northampton, in an uprising known as Shays' Rebellion.

A flood on the Mill River on May 16, 1874, obliterated almost the entire Northampton neighborhood of Leeds, killing 139 people in Leeds and neighboring towns.