National Register of Historic Places listings in Maine explained

There are approximately 1,600 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. State of Maine. Each of the state's 16 counties has more than forty listings on the National Register.

Current listings by county

The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site.^[1] There are frequent additions to the listings and occasional delistings and the counts here are approximate and not official. New entries are added to the official Register on a weekly basis.^[2] Also, the counts in this table exclude boundary increase and decrease listings which only modify the area covered by an existing property or district, although carrying a separate National Register reference number.

			County		of Sites
1	Androscoggin	108
2	Aroostook	57
3.1	Cumberland: Portland	98
3.2	Cumberland: Other	149
3.3	Cumberland: Total	247
4	Franklin	48
5	Hancock	131
6	Kennebec	135
7	Knox	97
8	Lincoln	105
9	Oxford	100
10	Penobscot	110
11	Piscataquis	59
12	Sagadahoc	63
13	Somerset	60
14	Waldo	68
15	Washington	100
16	York	184
(duplicates)		(8)^[3]
Total:		1,664

See also

• List of National Historic Landmarks in Maine
• List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine

References

See main article: e.

Notes and References

1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions . January 2, 2009 . National Park Service . January 26, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110126114305/http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/nrlist.htm . dead .
2. http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/nrlist.htm Weekly List Actions
3. The following sites are listed in multiple counties: Arnold Trail to Quebec (Franklin, Kennebec, Sagadahoc, and Somerset), Georges River Canal (Knox and Waldo), Porter-Parsonfield Bridge (Oxford and York), Ryefield Bridge (Oxford and Cumberland), Whitney Farm (Knox and Waldo), and Shaker Village (Androscoggin and Cumberland).