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Eliot

Maine · ME · York County · everything worth knowing, kept by neighbors

About Eliot

Town in Maine, United States
1810Established
6,717Population
21.3 sq miArea
20 ftElevation

Eliot is a town in York County, Maine, United States. Originally settled in 1623, it was formerly a part of Kittery, to its east. After Kittery, it is the next most southern town in the state of Maine, lying on the Piscataqua River across from Portsmouth and Newington, New Hampshire. The population was 6,717 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan area. The town contains the census-designated place of South Eliot. Eliot is home to Ambush Rock, Green Acre, and the Raitt Homestead Farm Museum.

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