Wellfleet, Massachusetts
town in Massachusetts, United States
Wellfleet is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. It is located halfway between the "tip" and "elbow" of Cape Cod. The town had a population of 3,566 at the 2020 census.[1] The population grows to five times the normal during the summer.[2] Much of the town's land area is in wetlands protection.[3] Nearly half of it is part of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Wellfleet is famous for its oysters, which are celebrated in the annual October Wellfleet OysterFest.
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Wellfleet Town Hall
References
change- ↑ "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2020 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Wellfleet town, Barnstable County, Massachusetts". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
- ↑ "Wellfleet Today". Mass Department of Housing and Community Development community profile. wellfleetma.org. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
- ↑ Wellfleet Environmental Protection Regulations (Wellfleet, MA: Wellfleet Conservation Commission, February 2014), p. 3
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