Editing Chandler's Purchase, New Hampshire

{{short description|Township in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}
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|official_name            = Chandler's Purchase, New Hampshire
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|image_caption            = [[Mount Eisenhower]], June 2006
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|map_caption              = Location in [[Coös County, New Hampshire|Coös County]], [[New Hampshire]]
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|subdivision_name1        = [[New Hampshire]]
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|subdivision_name2        = [[Coös County, New Hampshire|Coös]]
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|area_footnotes           = <ref name="CenPopGazetteer2021">{{cite web |title=2021 U.S. Gazetteer Files – New Hampshire |url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2021_Gazetteer/2021_gaz_cousubs_33.txt |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=November 15, 2021}}</ref>
|area_total_km2           = 5.5
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|area_land_km2            = 5.5
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|population_as_of         = 2020
|population_footnotes     = <ref name="Census 2020">{{Cite web| url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=&g=0600000US3300711220&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P1| title=Chandlers purchase, Coos County, New Hampshire: 2020 DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171)| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| access-date=November 15, 2021}}</ref>
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|timezone                 = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]
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|elevation_m              = 800
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|area_code                = [[Area code 603|603]]
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|blank_info               = 33-007-11220
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'''Chandler's Purchase''' is a [[civil township#Northeastern states|township]] located in [[Coös County, New Hampshire|Coös County]], [[New Hampshire]], United States. The purchase lies entirely within the [[White Mountain National Forest]]. As of the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]], the purchase had a population of zero.<ref name="Census 2020"/> It is the smallest township by area in Coos County.

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 ==
Chandler's Purchase is named for Jeremiah Chandler of [[Conway, New Hampshire|Conway]], who purchased about {{convert|10000|acre|km2}} from commissioner James Willey in 1835 for $300.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}

== Geography ==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the purchase has a total area of {{convert|5.5|km2|order=flip}}, all land, other than by streams such as the [[Ammonoosuc River]], which flows through the purchase. The  highest point is the summit of [[Mount Eisenhower]], at {{convert|4780|ft|m}} above [[sea level]].

Two roads cross the purchase. Base Station Road leads east to the Marshfield Base Station of the [[Mount Washington Cog Railway]] in neighboring [[Thompson and Meserve's Purchase, New Hampshire|Thompson and Meserve's Purchase]] and west to [[Bretton Woods, New Hampshire|Bretton Woods]]. The hiker parking lot for the Jewell Trail and the Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail, both of which afford access to the summit of [[Mount Washington]], is along the road in Chandler's Purchase. The second road in the purchase, Jefferson Notch Road, is a dirt road which leads north from Base Station Road over Jefferson Notch to the [[Israel River]] valley in the town of [[Jefferson, New Hampshire|Jefferson]].

===Adjacent municipalities===
* [[Low and Burbank's Grant, New Hampshire|Low and Burbank's Grant]] (north)
* [[Thompson and Meserve's Purchase, New Hampshire|Thompson and Meserve's Purchase]] (northeast)
* [[Sargent's Purchase, New Hampshire|Sargent's Purchase]] (east)
* [[Cutt's Grant, New Hampshire|Cutt's Grant]] (southeast)
* [[Bean's Grant, New Hampshire|Bean's Grant]] (west)
* [[Crawford's Purchase, New Hampshire|Crawford's Purchase]] (northwest)

== Demographics ==
{{US Census population
|1890= 15
|1960= 0
|1970= 0
|1980= 0
|1990= 0
|2000= 0
|2010= 0
|2020= 0
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|estimate=
|estref=
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="Census 2020"/><ref name="DecennialCensus">{{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 }}</ref>
}}
As of the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]],<ref name="Census 2020"/> there were no people living in the purchase.

==References==

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{{Geographic location
 | Centre    = Chandler's Purchase
 | North     = [[Low and Burbank's Grant, New Hampshire|Low and Burbank's Grant]]
 | Northeast = [[Thompson and Meserve's Purchase, New Hampshire|Thompson and Meserve's Purchase]]
 | East      = [[Sargent's Purchase, New Hampshire|Sargent's Purchase]]
 | Southeast = [[Cutt's Grant, New Hampshire|Cutt's Grant]]
 | South     = [[Cutt's Grant, New Hampshire|Cutt's Grant]] 
 | Southwest = [[Bean's Grant, New Hampshire|Bean's Grant]]
 | West      = [[Crawford's Purchase, New Hampshire|Crawford's Purchase]]
 | Northwest = [[Low and Burbank's Grant, New Hampshire|Low and Burbank's Grant]]
}}

{{Coos County, New Hampshire}}

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[[Category:Townships in Coös County, New Hampshire]]
[[Category:Berlin, New Hampshire micropolitan area]]
[[Category:Townships in New Hampshire]]