Deering, Maine

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| official_name = City of Deering

| settlement_type = Former city

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| image_skyline = Deering High School, Deering ME.jpg

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| image_caption = Deering High School

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| pushpin_map = Maine#United States

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = United States

| subdivision_type1 = State

| subdivision_name1 = Maine

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Cumberland

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| established_title = Incorporated (town)

| established_date = 1871

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| population_as_of = 1890

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| population_total = 5353

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| timezone = Eastern (EST)

| utc_offset = -5

| timezone_DST = EDT

| utc_offset_DST = -4

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| coordinates = {{coord|43|40|18.7|N|70|17|45.3|W|region:US-ME|display=inline}}

| name = Deering

| established_date1 = 1882

| established_title1 = Incorporated (city)

| established_title2 = Disincorporated (Annexed)

| established_date2 = 1889

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{{US Census population

| 1880= 4324

| 1890= 5353

| footnote=sources:{{cite web|url=http://www.library.umaine.edu/census/townsearch.asp |title=Minor Civil Division Population Search Results |publisher=University of Maine |access-date=2011-12-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929135907/http://www.library.umaine.edu/census/townsearch.asp |archive-date=2011-09-29 }} accessed December 2011

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Deering was a city in Cumberland County, Maine which was incorporated in 1871 and annexed by the neighboring City of Portland in 1899.{{cite book|last1=Anderson|first1=Patricia McGraw|last2=Barry|first2=William David|title=Deering: A Social and Architectural History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5CbpZwEACAAJ|access-date=28 September 2017|year=2010|publisher=Greater Portland Landmarks, Incorporated|isbn=9780939761142}} Until 1871, Deering was a part of Saccarappa, which also included what is now neighboring Westbrook. In that year, the towns split with little opposition. The 1880 United States Census counted 4,324 residents of the newly formed town.{{cite book|last1=Barry|first1=William David|last2=Anderson|first2=Patricia McGraw|editor=Susan L. Ransom|others=Margaret W. Soule|title=Deering: A Social and Architectural History|year=2010|publisher=Greater Portland Landmarks|location=Portland, Maine|isbn=978-0-939761-14-2|page=86}} In 1892, Deering was incorporated as a city.{{cite book|last1=Conforti|first1=Joseph|title=Creating Portland|date=2007|publisher=UPNE|isbn=978-1-58465-449-0|page=xvii|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4WjGkuhZyaoC&q=portland+deering+expansion&pg=PR17|access-date=30 January 2016}} In 1899, Deering was annexed by Portland, becoming the northern neighborhoods of the city.{{cite book|last1=Maine Secretary of State|title=Private and Special Laws of the State of Maine|date=1899|publisher=Kennebec Journal Print|pages=9–13|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n3xKAAAAYAAJ&q=portland+deering+annex&pg=RA1-PA9|access-date=30 January 2016}}