municipality · official layer

Boston

The City of Boston, Massachusetts. The subject of this archive, and the official place that contains every neighborhood boundary it holds.

The municipality of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

Also recorded as

City of Boston · Boston, Massachusetts

These are archival variants — spellings, translations, and former official names. Names people say that no authority granted are filed as claims, not here.

Place

official layer

The official layer: what an authority with the power to draw a boundary has recorded. This record carries NO BOUNDARY — the authority entered a name, and the archive holds that and says so rather than implying an extent nobody drew.

Filed by this archive as

municipality

Authority

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

GNIS feature

617565

Official places within

• 14 Green Street (Memorial Hall)
• 19 Kenton Road
• 190 Bowdoin Street
• 3-4 Folsom Ave
• 318 Metropolitan Ave
• 33 Cordis Street (Swallow Mansion)
• 38 Spring Park Avenue
• 400R Atlantic Avenue Harborwalk
• 84-90 Harrison Avenue
• A Street Park
• A Street Park Community Garden
• Aberdeen
• Aberdeen Architectural Conservation District
• Adams Nervine Asylum
• Adams Park
• Adams Street, 1203-5
• Adams/King Playground
• Agassiz Road
• Al Festa Little League Field
• Allandale Field
• Allandale Woods I
• Allandale Woods II
• Allandale Woods III
• Allandale Woods IV
• Allandale Woods ROW
• Allandale Woods V
• Allen Park
• Allston
• Allston
• Allston Depot
• Allston Village
• Alvah Kittredge House
• Amatucci Playground
• American Legion Highway
• American Legion Playground
• Ames Building
• Ames-Barnard-Everett House
• Amory Street Park
• Angell Memorial Square
• Apollos Field House
• Apple Island
• Aquarium Harborwalk I
• Aquarium Harborwalk II
• Arborway I
• Arborway II
• Arborway Overpass Path
• Arcola Green
• Arlington Street Church
• Armenian Heritage Park
• Armory of 1st Corps Cadets (exterior)
• Armory of 1st Corps Cadets (interior)
• Arnold Arboretum
• Ashmont
• Auntie Kay & Uncle Frank Chin Park
• Austin Block
• Ayer Mansion (interior)
• Babson Cookson Tract
• Back Bay
• Back Bay
• Back Bay Architectural District

60 of 1082 are shown. The complete list is served in this record's machine rendering, which has always carried it, and every one of them is a record with its own address.

Questions this record answers

Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.

This record, elsewhere

Identities the archive asserts, each named with the method that produced it. Candidates the archive did not assert here are held in the reconciliation ledger and are shown below, under candidates the archive declined, and in the reconciliation ledger. Each method is stated in full — the procedure, the value it was compared against, and the date it was decided — in this record's machine rendering.

• USGS Geographic Names Information System — 617565Method: gnis-feature-id-held-as-cross-reference · Matched against: USGS GNIS domestic feature id 617565 · Decided 3 September 2026Note: 2 records of this archive answer to this identifier. It is asserted here, on the archive's principal record for the place — chosen on the kind of place it is, no candidate holding a boundary — and held on the others, which are tied to this record by an internal same_as relation. An identifier asserted twice is a merge instruction to a consumer.
• Wikidata — Q100Method: wikidata-p590-exact-identifier-join · Matched against: wdt:P590 = 617565 on Q100 (Boston) · Decided 3 September 2026Note: 3 records of this archive answer to this identifier. It is asserted here, on the archive's principal record for the place — chosen on the kind of place it is, no candidate holding a boundary — and held on the others, which are tied to this record by an internal same_as relation. An identifier asserted twice is a merge instruction to a consumer.
• English Wikipedia — BostonMethod: wikidata-sitelink · Matched against: schema:about Q100 ; schema:isPartOf en.wikipedia · Decided 3 September 2026Note: 3 records of this archive answer to this identifier. It is asserted here, on the archive's principal record for the place — chosen on the kind of place it is, no candidate holding a boundary — and held on the others, which are tied to this record by an internal same_as relation. An identifier asserted twice is a merge instruction to a consumer.

Attested claims about this record

These are attestations, not adjudications. The archive records who says a thing and since when. Where two attestations disagree, both stand.

Identity

Identifier

urn:lemay:boston:entity:boston

Canonical URL

https://boston.fyi/place/boston

As JSON

https://boston.fyi/place/boston.json

Version

1 · last changed 2 September 2026