Low and Burbank's Grant, New Hampshire
{{short description|Township in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2024}}
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|image_caption = The northern slope of Mount Madison, as seen from Mount Sam Adams
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|map_caption = Location in Coös County, New Hampshire
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|area_total_km2 = 67.7
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|timezone = Eastern
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|elevation_m = 676
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|area_code = 603
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Low and Burbank's Grant is a township in Coös County, New Hampshire, United States. The grant lies entirely within the White Mountain National Forest. As of the 2020 census, the grant had a population of zero.
In New Hampshire, locations, grants, townships (which are different from towns), and purchases are unincorporated portions of a county which are not part of any town and have limited self-government (if any, as many are uninhabited).
History
The purchase is named for Clovis Lowe of Jefferson and Barker Burbank of Shelburne, who purchased land from the state in 1832.{{citation |last1=Julyan |first1=Robert Hixson |last2=Julyan |first2=Mary |title=Place Names of the White Mountains |year=1993 |publisher=University Press of New England |isbn=978-0-87451-638-8 |edition=Revised |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KkKBhQVyid8C&pg=PP118 |page=94}}
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the grant has a total area of {{convert|67.7|km2|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|1335|sqm|acre|order=flip|1}}, or 0.002%, are water.
The grant is in the northern White Mountains, on the northern slopes of the Presidential Range and on the Dartmouth Range. Summits in the grant include Mt. Sam Adams—at {{convert|5584|ft|m}} above sea level, the highest point in the grant—and Mt. Madison, elevation {{convert|5367|ft|m}}. The northern slopes of the range comprise one of the most densely tracked areas in the White Mountain National Forest. The Randolph Mountain Club and the Appalachian Mountain Club maintain seasonal huts and cabins on the north slopes of these two mountains, at or above {{convert|4000|ft|m}}.
=Adjacent municipalities=
- Randolph (north)
- Gorham (northeast)
- Thompson and Meserve's Purchase (east)
- Chandler's Purchase (southeast)
- Crawford's Purchase (south)
- Carroll (west)
- Jefferson (northwest)
Demographics
{{US Census population
|1960= 0
|1970= 0
|1980= 1
|1990= 0
|2000= 0
|2010= 0
|2020= 0
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|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2016}}
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As of the 2020 census,{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=January 31, 2008|title=U.S. Census website}} there were no people living in the grant.
References
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{{Geographic location
| Centre = Low and Burbank's Grant
| North = Randolph
| Northeast = Gorham
| East = Thompson and Meserve's Purchase
| Southeast = Thompson and Meserve's Purchase
| South = Crawford's Purchase and Chandler's Purchase
| Southwest = Carroll
| West = Carroll
| Northwest = Jefferson
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{{Coos County, New Hampshire}}
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Category:Townships in Coös County, New Hampshire