populated place · official layer

Cambridge

A populated place entered on the federal register of geographic names as feature 617365 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The name is the one the United States Board on Geographic Names has recorded; what the place is called locally is filed separately as an attested claim.

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

locale

Authority

United States Board on Geographic Names

GNIS feature

617365

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 — 617365Method: gnis-feature-id-recorded-at-accession · Matched against: USGS GNIS domestic feature id 617365 · Decided 3 September 2026

Candidates the archive declined

Identities that were considered and not asserted. They are published here rather than merely filed, because a decision nobody can see is indistinguishable from never having looked. A candidate is DECLINED where the archive weighed it and refused it, and HELD where the archive asserts it nowhere on this record — most often because it is asserted on the archive's principal record for the same place, and asserting it twice would instruct a consumer to merge two records the archive deliberately keeps apart. Each row states which, in its own words. A wrong sameAs is worse than none. Every verdict is in the reconciliation ledger.

• English Wikipedia — Cambridge,_Massachusetts · held — not asserted hereMatched against: schema:about Q49111 ; schema:isPartOf en.wikipediaWhy: Held, not asserted: 2 records of this archive answer to this identifier, and it is asserted on /place/city-of-cambridge — the archive's principal record for the place, which outranks this one on the kind of place it is; neither record holds a boundary. This record is tied to it by an internal same_as relation. Asserting the identifier here as well would instruct a consumer to merge two records the archive deliberately keeps apart.Method: wikidata-sitelink · Decided 3 September 2026
• Wikidata — Q49111 · held — not asserted hereMatched against: wdt:P590 = 617365 on Q49111 (Cambridge)Why: Held, not asserted: 2 records of this archive answer to this identifier, and it is asserted on /place/city-of-cambridge — the archive's principal record for the place, which outranks this one on the kind of place it is; neither record holds a boundary. This record is tied to it by an internal same_as relation. Asserting the identifier here as well would instruct a consumer to merge two records the archive deliberately keeps apart.Method: wikidata-p590-exact-identifier-join · Decided 3 September 2026

Related records

• same as — City of Cambridge

Identity

Identifier

urn:lemay:boston:entity:cambridge

Canonical URL

https://boston.fyi/place/cambridge

As JSON

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

Version

1 · last changed 2 September 2026