Southampton (Massachusetts)

Southampton is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It was established first as a district of Northampton in 1753. It was incorporated in 1753. The name Southampton was given to it during its first town meeting in 1773. Its ZIP code is 01073. Southampton is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town had a population of 5,792 at the 2010 census.Southampton was rated having the best tasting tap water in the country in 2008 by the National Rural Water Association.U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy was involved in a plane crash there in 1964.Lewis Strong Clarke, a Louisiana sugarcane planter and 19th century Republican politician, was born there in 1837.GeographyAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 29.1sqmi, of which 28.1sqmi is land and 0.9sqmi (3.20%) is water. Southampton is bordered by Easthampton to the northeast, Holyoke to the southeast, Westfield to the south, Montgomery to the southwest, Huntington for a very short length on the west, and Westhampton to the northwest. Southampton is located 17 miles northwest of Springfield and 100 miles to the west of Boston.