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Springfield is an incorporated city and the county seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, and the most populous city in the county.

It was settled on May 14, 1636 by William Pynchon as Agawam Plantation, was renamed in 1641 for Pynchon's hometown of Springfield in Essex, England, and was incorporated as a city on May 25, 1852.

The 2020 census counted 155,929 people in Springfield, making it the third most populous city in Massachusetts and the fourth most populous in New England.

An American Community Survey 2020-2024 estimate puts Springfield at 57,772 households.

Springfield covers 33.08 square miles in total, with 31.87 square miles of land, and sits on the east bank of the Connecticut River near the confluences of the Westfield, Chicopee, and Mill rivers.

The city is nicknamed "The City of Firsts," "The City of Homes," and "Hoop City."

Basketball was invented in Springfield in 1891 by James Naismith.

George Washington designated Springfield as the site of the Springfield Armory, established in 1777, which produced the first American musket in 1794 and the famous Springfield rifles, closed in 1969, and is now a National Historic Site holding the largest collection of historic American firearms in the world.

Shays' Rebellion in 1787, whose near-capture of the armory helped lead directly to the Constitutional Convention, took place in Springfield.

Among the city's firsts are the first American-English dictionary in 1805 from Merriam-Webster, the first American gasoline-powered car in 1893 from the Duryea brothers, the first successful motorcycle company in 1901 from Indian, and the mass production of vulcanized rubber in 1844 by Charles Goodyear.