Richmond, Rhode Island

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While our information shows that the community of Richmond is historic,^<1> we want to be sure that it has a presence on our website. As we gather information about Richmond, we'll be sure to add our findings.

Richmond would have been located within present day Providence County

While the community is gone, the present day location for Richmond is 80 feet [24.38 m] above sea level.^<2>

Time Zone: The area where Richmond was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time.

Communities that are also named Richmond can be found in:

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

	Community	Direction	Distance<3>	2008<4> Population	Change Since 2000
	Coventry	SW	5 mi [8.05 km]	34,660	2.95% increase
	Cranston	E	7 mi [11.27 km]	79,980	0.9% increase
	Cumberland	NE	16 mi [25.75 km]	34,209	7.44% increase
	East Providence	E	13 mi [20.92 km]	48,480	0.43% decrease
	North Providence	NE	9 mi [14.48 km]	32,695	0.88% increase
	Pawtucket	NE	14 mi [22.53 km]	71,765	1.64% decrease

To learn more about neighboring communities, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Richmond.

Websites for Richmond

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for either Richmond or Providence County, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.

The Commemorative Quarter for Rhode Island<5>

Search for Local Businesses

We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities. Since Richmond no longer exists, the following searches are actually centered on the nearby community of Boston (MA). It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

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