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Russell is a town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,775 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. ==Geography== According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and (1.79%) is water. Russell borders Granville to the south, Blandford to the west, Huntington to the north, Montgomery to the northeast and Westfield to the southeast. The town has two very different sections: South Quarter is mainly uplands at elevations from to along the rim of a plateau west of the Connecticut River Valley. Most of the escarpment is inside the town. This is the edge of a rift valley originating in the Mesozoic Era when Europe and North America separated. The Connecticut River still follows this rift valley, known as Pioneer Valley, for its early settlement by English Puritans. The escarpment between South Quarter uplands and the valley is forested—too steep to farm—and dissected by streams that have eroded ravines back into the uplands. The rest of the town is a deep valley along the swift Westfield River. During the Pleistocene Epoch, continental glaciers scraped away soil and steepened cliffs on hills around this valley, particularly on Mounts Tekoa and Shatterack east of the river, and on Turtle Mountain standing in the middle of the valley. Although none of these peaks actually rises much above the surrounding plateau, their precipitous slopes make them appear impressively high from the valley. As continental glaciers receded northward, a glacial moraine dammed the Connecticut River below Hartford, producing -long Lake Hitchcock with an arm extending northwest along the Westfield River. Gravel banks large enough to be commercially valuable were deposited in Russell where the river entered the ephemeral lake. The river has three widely separated cascades, dropping about 90 feet (27m) in total that figured in the township's industrial development, below. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Russell, Massachusetts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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