Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 977
Land area (2000): 5.428386 sq. miles (14.059454 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.033161 sq. miles (0.085886 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.461547 sq. miles (14.145340 sq. km)
FIPS code: 44620
Located within: Maine (ME), FIPS 23
Location: 44.109828 N, 70.389872 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 04256
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mechanic Falls
Usage examples of "mechanic falls".
The land on both sides of the Griffen Road was owned by Charles Griffen, who was the biggest dairy farmer south of Mechanic Falls, and from Schoolyard Hill you could see Griffen's huge barn with its aluminum roof glittering in the sun like a monstrous heliograph.
The way Worth goesthe way most people gois Route 97 to Mechanic Falls, then Route 11 to Lewiston, and then the Interstate to Bangor.
Highway 68 unrolled before us, turning its way through miles of woods and splitting the little towns that were there and gone in a slow blink, each one with its bar and its self-service gas station: New Sharon, Ophelia, West Ophelia, Ganistan (which had once been Afghantistan, strange but true), Mechanic Falls, Castle View, Castle Rock.
Highway 68 unrolled before us, turning its way through miles of woods and splitting the little towns that were there and gone in a slow blink, each one with its bar and its self- service gas station: New Sharon, Ophelia, West Ophelia, Ganistan (which had once been Afghantistan, strange but true), Mechanic Falls, Castle View, Castle Rock.