List of municipalities in Rhode Island

Map of the municipalities in the state

This is a list of the 39 municipalities in Rhode Island. Eight of these municipalities were re-incorporated as cities, while the other 31 remain as towns. Note that towns in Rhode Island can adopt a city form of government without the need to re-incorporate as a city.

Some Rhode Island cities and towns also contain named localities known as villages that reflect historic settlements. Notable villages include Kingston, in the town of South Kingstown, which houses the University of Rhode Island, and Wickford, in North Kingstown, the site of an annual international art festival. Villages have no separate corporate existence from the town or city they are located in.

List

Providence, Capital of Rhode Island

Rhode Island State House, Providence

Pawtucket

Woonsocket

Newport

Name[1]	Status[1]	County[1]	Date incorporated[2]	Date re-incorporated as a city[1]	Form of government[1]
Barrington	Town	Bristol	1770	—	Council-manager
Bristol	Town	Bristol	1747[3]	—	Council-manager
Burrillville	Town	Providence	1806	—	Council-manager
Central Falls	City	Providence	1895[4]	1895	Mayor-council
Charlestown[5]	Town	Washington	1738	—	Council-manager
Coventry	Town	Kent	1741	—	Council-manager
Cranston	City	Providence	1754	1910	Mayor-council
Cumberland	Town	Providence	1747[3]	—	Mayor-council
East Greenwich	Town	Kent	1677	—	Council-manager
East Providence	City	Providence	1862[3]	1958	Council-manager
Exeter	Town	Washington	1743	—	Town meeting
Foster	Town	Providence	1781	—	Town meeting
Glocester	Town	Providence	1730	—	Town meeting
Hopkinton[5]	Town	Washington	1757	—	Town meeting
Jamestown	Town	Newport	1678	—	Council-manager
Johnston	Town	Providence	1759	—	Mayor-council
Lincoln	Town	Providence	1871[4]	—	Council-manager
Little Compton	Town	Newport	1747[3]	—	Town meeting
Middletown	Town	Newport	1743	—	Council-manager
Narragansett	Town	Washington	1901[4]	—	Council-manager
New Shoreham (Block Island)	Town	Washington	1672	—	Council-manager
Newport	City	Newport	1639 (original town)	1784/1853	Council-manager
North Kingstown	Town	Washington	1674	—	Council-manager
North Providence	Town	Providence	1765	—	Mayor-council
North Smithfield	Town	Providence	1871[4]	—	Council-manager
Pawtucket	City	Providence	1862[3]	1954	Mayor-council
Portsmouth	Town	Newport	1638 (original town)	—	Council-manager
Providence	City	Providence	1636 (original town)	1832	Mayor-council
Richmond[5]	Town	Washington	1747	—	Town meeting
Scituate	Town	Providence	1730	—	Town meeting
Smithfield	Town	Providence	1730	—	Council-manager
South Kingstown	Town	Washington	1723	—	Council-manager
Tiverton	Town	Newport	1747[3]	—	Town meeting
Warren	Town	Bristol	1747[3]	—	Council-manager
Warwick	City	Kent	1642[6] (original town)	1931	Mayor-council
West Greenwich	Town	Kent	1741	—	Town meeting
West Warwick	Town	Kent	1913[7]	—	Council-manager
Westerly	Town	Washington	1669	—	Council-manager
Woonsocket	City	Providence	1867[4]	1888	Mayor-council

See also

Rhode Island portal

• List of census-designated places in Rhode Island
• Rhode Island Villages

Notes and references

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} "State and Community Profiles". Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation. http://www.riedc.com/data-and-publications/state-and-community-profiles. Retrieved 2009-07-21. 
2. ^ Snow, Edwin M. (1865). Report Upon the Census of Rhode Island, 1865: With the Statistics of the Population, Agriculture, Fisheries and Manufactures of the State. University of Michigan. p. xxvii. http://books.google.com/books?id=NxsxC5mK7NAC&dq=bristol+rhode+island+date+of+incorporation&source=gbs_navlinks_s. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} Refers to date the town was formally annexed by Rhode Island from Massachusetts
4. ^ ^{a b c d e} Clarence Saunders Brigham, Frank Greene Bates (1904). Report on the Archives of Rhode Island. G.P.O. p. 643. http://books.google.com/books?id=2r9PKv7b5poC&dq=Woonsocket,+Rhode+Island+1867&source=gbs_navlinks_s. 
5. ^ ^{a b c} Charlestown, Richmond, and Hopkinton are often collectively referred to as Chariho, the name given to their regional school district in 1958.
6. ^ Town was organized in 1647
7. ^ Town of West Warwick

External links

• Complete List of all 39 Towns and Cities in RI (ri.gov)
• State and Community Profiles from the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation includes interactive map of town and city boundaries.