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Pascoag is a census-designated place and village in Providence County, Rhode Island, and one of eight villages that make up the town of Burrillville, with a population of 4,641 at the 2020 census.

As of the 2020 census, Pascoag had a population of 4,641, with 1,811 households and 1,189 families, a median age of 40.7 years, and a total area of 5.56 square miles, of which 5.07 square miles is land, and its ZIP code is 02859.

The village is centered on the Pascoag River at its outlet from the Pascoag Reservoir, and the river drops 60 feet through the village, providing ample power for industry in the village's early days.

The name of Burrillville's principal village, Pascoag, named after the Pascoag River upon which it is located, probably derives from an Algonquian Indian root, with the Nipmuc word for snake rendered 'askug' by Roger Williams in his A Key Into the Language of America.

Pascoag can trace its origins back to the first half of the 18th century, when a saw mill and other businesses were built in what is now the village center, and in the 19th century Pascoag became a textile manufacturing town, an industry that continued until after World War II.

From 1891 until the 1930s the Woonsocket and Pascoag Railroad operated trains to Pascoag, but the line, currently operated by the Providence and Worcester Railroad, now terminates in Slatersville.

The horror author H. P. Lovecraft set part of his story 'The Horror at Red Hook' of 1925 in Pascoag.

A test of the groundwater conducted on September 14, 2001, showed that Pascoag's drinking water contained the gasoline additive MTBE at levels of over 350 parts per billion, believed to have come from leaking tanks at a local ExxonMobil gas station, and nearly 1,500 residents filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil, which signed a 7 million dollar settlement with residents in May 2012 to cover the cost of having the Pascoag Public Utility District bore new wells.

The Pascoag Grammar School of 1917 is a historic site in the village, which is also served by the Pascoag Public Library, the Pascoag Utility District, and the Pascoag Riverwalk.

At the 2000 census Pascoag had 4,742 people, so its population declined slightly to 4,641 by 2020, when 92.8 percent of residents were White and the average household size was 2.6.