Warwick, Rhode Island | |
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City | |
| City of Warwick | |
 _--_2006_--_6.jpg)  .jpg) Warwick City Hall, Brush Neck Cove, theCaleb Greene House, andT. F. Green Airport | |
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 Location inKent County, Rhode Island | |
| Coordinates:41°43′N71°25′W / 41.717°N 71.417°W /41.717; -71.417 | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  Rhode Island |
| County | Kent |
| Founded | 1642 |
| Incorporated (town) | August 8, 1647 |
| Incorporated (city) | April 21, 1931 |
| Named after | Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor-council |
| • Mayor | Frank Picozzi (I) |
| • City Council | William Foley (D) Jeremy M. Rix (D) Bryan Nappa (D) Salvatore DeLuise (D) Edgar N. Ladouceur (D) William Muto (D) John Kirby (D) Anthony Sinapi (D) Vincent Gebhart (D) |
| Area | |
• Total | 49.75 sq mi (128.85 km2) |
| • Land | 35.00 sq mi (90.65 km2) |
| • Water | 14.75 sq mi (38.20 km2) |
| Elevation | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
| Population | |
• Total | 82,823 |
| • Density | 2,366.3/sq mi (913.64/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (Eastern) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (Eastern) |
| ZIP Codes | 02886, 02888–02889 |
| Area code | 401 |
| FIPS code | 44-74300[4] |
| GNIS feature ID | 1220018[2] |
| Website | warwickri |
Warwick (/ˈwɒrɪk/WORR-ik or/ˈwɔːrwɪk/WOR-wik[5]) is a city inKent County, Rhode Island, United States, and is the third-largest city in the state, with a population of 82,823 at the2020 census. Warwick is located approximately 12 miles (19 km) south of downtownProvidence, Rhode Island, 63 miles (101 km) southwest ofBoston, Massachusetts, and 171 miles (275 km) northeast ofNew York City.
Warwick was founded bySamuel Gorton in 1642 and has witnessed major events in American history. It was decimated duringKing Philip's War (1675–1676) and was the site of theGaspee Affair, the first act of armed resistance against the British, preceding even theBoston Tea Party, and a significant prelude to theAmerican Revolution. Warwick was also the home ofRevolutionary War GeneralNathanael Greene, George Washington's second-in-command, andCivil War GeneralGeorge S. Greene, a hero of theBattle of Gettysburg.
Today, it is home to Rhode Island's main airport,T. F. Green Airport, which serves theProvidence area and also functions as a reliever forLogan International Airport inBoston, Massachusetts. Warwick was also home toRocky Point, which closed in 1995 and is now a state park.
Warwick was settled bySamuel Gorton in 1642.Narragansett SachemMiantonomi sold him the Shawhomett Purchase for 144 fathoms ofwampum. This included the towns ofCoventry andWest Warwick, Rhode Island. However, Sachems Sacononoco andPumham claimed that Miantonomi had sold the land without asking for their approval. They took their case to Boston, where they placed their lands under Massachusetts rule. In 1643,Massachusetts Bay Colony sent a militia force to Shawomett to arrest Gorton and his followers. After a tense standoff, all but three of the Gortonists surrendered to the Massachusetts forces. Gorton then sailed back to England and sought a charter from the King. He was greatly assisted in gaining it byRobert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, so Gorton and his fellow settlers changed the name of their colony from Shawumet to Warwick.[6]
The ongoing harassment from Massachusetts Bay Colony, however, caused the other three colonies on Narragansett Bay (Providence Plantations,Portsmouth, andNewport) to unite with Warwick and get a British royal charter allowing them to form theColony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.[7]: 302
In 1772, Warwick was the scene of the first violent act against the British Crown in theGaspee Affair. Local patriots boarded theGaspee,[8] a revenue cutter that enforced theStamp Act 1765 andTownshend Acts inNarragansett Bay. It was here that the first blood was spilled in theAmerican Revolution whenGaspee's commanding officer Lt. Dudingston was shot and seriously wounded during the struggle for the ship. TheGaspee was stripped of all cannons and arms, then burned.[9]
During the Revolution, Warwick militiamen participated in the battles of Montreal,Quebec,Saratoga,Monmouth, andTrenton, and they were present for the British surrender atYorktown in 1781.
Major traversing highways include:
Interstate 95 is the major thoroughfare of Rhode Island, with the first southbound exit in Warwick at Jefferson Boulevard, and ending with theRoute 117 interchange, near the Apponaug rotaries.Interstate 295 connects to the main highway at exit 27, providing direct travel toWoonsocket andMassachusetts. Smaller routes includeRoute 37 (Lincoln Avenue Freeway) connecting 295 toU.S. Route 1, and theAirport Connector Road.
TheRhode Island T. F. Green International Airport is the main airport serving Rhode Island, and is located in Warwick. The name was changed from T.F. Green Airport in 2021.[10]T. F. Green Airport is a station on theProvidence/StoughtonCommuter Rail Line, providing weekday service toProvidence Station and Boston'sSouth Station.[11]
Climate data for Providence, Rhode Island (T. F. Green Airport), 1991–2020 normals,[a] extremes 1904–present[b] | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °F (°C) | 70 (21) | 72 (22) | 90 (32) | 98 (37) | 96 (36) | 100 (38) | 102 (39) | 104 (40) | 100 (38) | 88 (31) | 81 (27) | 77 (25) | 104 (40) |
| Mean maximum °F (°C) | 58.7 (14.8) | 57.9 (14.4) | 67.1 (19.5) | 79.3 (26.3) | 87.2 (30.7) | 91.5 (33.1) | 94.8 (34.9) | 92.7 (33.7) | 87.6 (30.9) | 78.9 (26.1) | 70.1 (21.2) | 61.5 (16.4) | 96.6 (35.9) |
| Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 38.3 (3.5) | 40.5 (4.7) | 47.7 (8.7) | 58.9 (14.9) | 68.9 (20.5) | 77.7 (25.4) | 83.6 (28.7) | 82.2 (27.9) | 74.8 (23.8) | 63.8 (17.7) | 53.2 (11.8) | 43.4 (6.3) | 61.1 (16.2) |
| Daily mean °F (°C) | 30.2 (−1.0) | 32.0 (0.0) | 38.9 (3.8) | 49.3 (9.6) | 59.1 (15.1) | 68.2 (20.1) | 74.4 (23.6) | 73.0 (22.8) | 65.6 (18.7) | 54.4 (12.4) | 44.5 (6.9) | 35.5 (1.9) | 52.1 (11.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 22.1 (−5.5) | 23.5 (−4.7) | 30.2 (−1.0) | 39.6 (4.2) | 49.2 (9.6) | 58.8 (14.9) | 65.2 (18.4) | 63.9 (17.7) | 56.5 (13.6) | 45.1 (7.3) | 35.8 (2.1) | 27.6 (−2.4) | 43.1 (6.2) |
| Mean minimum °F (°C) | 4.1 (−15.5) | 7.4 (−13.7) | 15.1 (−9.4) | 28.5 (−1.9) | 38.1 (3.4) | 47.2 (8.4) | 56.2 (13.4) | 54.3 (12.4) | 43.1 (6.2) | 31.7 (−0.2) | 21.8 (−5.7) | 12.3 (−10.9) | 2.0 (−16.7) |
| Record low °F (°C) | −13 (−25) | −17 (−27) | 1 (−17) | 11 (−12) | 29 (−2) | 39 (4) | 48 (9) | 40 (4) | 32 (0) | 20 (−7) | 6 (−14) | −12 (−24) | −17 (−27) |
| Averageprecipitation inches (mm) | 3.96 (101) | 3.44 (87) | 4.90 (124) | 4.29 (109) | 3.37 (86) | 3.81 (97) | 2.91 (74) | 3.59 (91) | 4.17 (106) | 4.18 (106) | 4.27 (108) | 4.65 (118) | 47.54 (1,208) |
| Average snowfall inches (cm) | 10.3 (26) | 10.5 (27) | 6.4 (16) | 0.6 (1.5) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.2 (0.51) | 1.0 (2.5) | 7.6 (19) | 36.6 (93) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.01 in) | 11.2 | 10.3 | 11.6 | 11.7 | 12.2 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 9.1 | 9.1 | 10.2 | 9.6 | 11.9 | 127.0 |
| Average snowy days(≥ 0.1 in) | 5.7 | 5.4 | 3.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 3.4 | 19.3 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 63.9 | 63.0 | 62.9 | 61.4 | 66.6 | 70.1 | 71.0 | 72.5 | 73.0 | 70.2 | 68.9 | 67.0 | 67.5 |
| Averagedew point °F (°C) | 16.3 (−8.7) | 17.4 (−8.1) | 25.0 (−3.9) | 33.1 (0.6) | 45.0 (7.2) | 55.6 (13.1) | 61.5 (16.4) | 61.0 (16.1) | 53.8 (12.1) | 42.6 (5.9) | 33.3 (0.7) | 22.1 (−5.5) | 38.9 (3.8) |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 171.7 | 172.6 | 215.6 | 225.1 | 254.9 | 274.1 | 290.6 | 262.8 | 233.0 | 208.7 | 148.0 | 148.6 | 2,605.7 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 58 | 58 | 58 | 56 | 57 | 60 | 63 | 61 | 62 | 61 | 50 | 52 | 58 |
| Averageultraviolet index | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Source 1:NOAA (relative humidity, dew point, and sun 1961–1990)[13][14][15] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: Weather Atlas[16] | |||||||||||||
| Climate data for Providence | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average sea temperature °F (°C) | 41.4 (5.2) | 38.1 (3.4) | 38.7 (3.8) | 44.1 (6.7) | 50.9 (10.5) | 59.6 (15.3) | 67.0 (19.4) | 69.3 (20.7) | 66.7 (19.3) | 61.6 (16.4) | 54.2 (12.3) | 47.7 (8.8) | 53.3 (11.8) |
| Source: Weather Atlas[16] | |||||||||||||
Warwick is located at41°43′N71°25′W / 41.717°N 71.417°W /41.717; -71.417 (41.7181, −71.4152).[17]
According to theUnited States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 49.6 square miles (128 km2), of which 35.5 square miles (92 km2) is land and 14.1 square miles (37 km2) (28.46%) is water. Warwick's entire eastern edge is waterfront, starting with theProvidence River at its northern border withCranston. Conimicut Point marks the end of the river and the beginning ofNarragansett Bay, which extends beyond the city's southern limit on its way to theAtlantic Ocean; two southern Warwick peninsulas,Warwick Neck andPotowomut, enclose the water to formGreenwich Bay.
Warwick is bordered byCranston to the north,West Warwick to the west, andEast Greenwich to the south. The city's southernmost neighborhood, Potowomut, is asemi-exclave, reachable by land only by passing through East Greenwich; through Potowomut, Warwick also shares a border withNorth Kingstown. Because of the North Kingstown border, Warwick borders two Rhode Island counties:Providence County andWashington County.
The followingvillages are located in Warwick:
| Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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| 1830 | 5,529 | — | |
| 1840 | 6,726 | 21.6% | |
| 1850 | 7,740 | 15.1% | |
| 1860 | 8,916 | 15.2% | |
| 1870 | 10,453 | 17.2% | |
| 1880 | 12,164 | 16.4% | |
| 1890 | 17,761 | 46.0% | |
| 1900 | 21,316 | 20.0% | |
| 1910 | 26,629 | 24.9% | |
| 1920 | 13,481 | −49.4% | |
| 1930 | 23,196 | 72.1% | |
| 1940 | 28,757 | 24.0% | |
| 1950 | 43,028 | 49.6% | |
| 1960 | 68,504 | 59.2% | |
| 1970 | 83,694 | 22.2% | |
| 1980 | 87,123 | 4.1% | |
| 1990 | 85,427 | −1.9% | |
| 2000 | 85,808 | 0.4% | |
| 2010 | 82,672 | −3.7% | |
| 2020 | 82,823 | 0.2% | |
| U.S. Decennial Census[3] | |||
Warwick is officially a part of theProvidence metropolitan area, which has a population of 1,600,852 in the2010 census.
The2020 United States census counted 82,823 people, 36,555 households, and 21,150 families in Warwick. The population density was 2,366.3 inhabitants per square mile (913.6/km2). There were 38,625 housing units at an average density of 1,103.5 per square mile (426.1/km2).[19][20] The racial makeup was 85.69% (70,967)white orEuropean American (84.28%non-Hispanic white), 2.11% (1,751)black orAfrican-American, 0.3% (252)Native American orAlaska Native, 3.11% (2,575)Asian, 0.02% (13)Pacific Islander orNative Hawaiian, 2.58% (2,138) fromother races, and 6.19% (5,127) fromtwo or more races.[21]Hispanic orLatino of any race was 6.06% (5,019) of the population.[22]
Of the 36,555 households, 22.5% had children under the age of 18; 42.6% were married couples living together; 30.5% had a female householder with no spouse or partner present. 33.8% of households consisted of individuals and 16.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.[19] The average household size was 2.3 and the average family size was 2.9.[23] The percent of those with a bachelor’s degree or higher was estimated to be 25.3% of the population.[24]
16.9% of the population was under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 25.1% from 25 to 44, 29.4% from 45 to 64, and 21.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 46.0 years. For every 100 females, the population had 108.6 males.[19] For every 100 females ages 18 and older, there were 112.4 males.[19]
The 2016-2020 5-yearAmerican Community Survey estimates show that the median household income was $73,285 (with a margin of error of +/- $2,534) and the median family income was $90,027 (+/- $4,102). Males had a median income of $51,057 (+/- $1,899) versus $39,959 (+/- $1,627) for females.[25] The median income for those above 16 years old was $44,491 (+/- $1,873).[26] Approximately, 3.8% of families and 7.2% of the population were below thepoverty line, including 7.0% of those under the age of 18 and 9.2% of those ages 65 or over.[27][28]
| Year | GOP | DEM | Others |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 42.20%19,578 | 55.70%25,845 | 2.19%1,018 |
| 2016 | 44.25%18,338 | 48.35%20,038 | 7.39%3,064 |
| 2012 | 37.21%15,027 | 60.54%24,448 | 2.24%905 |
| 2008 | 38.37%16,541 | 59.85%25,802 | 1.79%770 |
| 2004 | 41.02%16,640 | 57.10%23,164 | 1.87%760 |
| 2000 | 32.37%12,741 | 60.85%23,948 | 6.78%2,669 |
| 1996 | 26.83%10,414 | 59.64%23,152 | 13.53%5,254 |
| 1992 | 29.88%13,348 | 45.90%20,504 | 24.22%10,822 |
| 1988 | 45.29%18,052 | 54.34%21,662 | 0.37%149 |
Warwick is split into three districts in theRhode Island Senate which are currently held by DemocratsMichael McCaffrey (District 29),Jeanine Calkin (District 30), andKendra Anderson (District 31). The town is a part ofRhode Island's 2nd congressional district, which is currently represented by DemocratSeth Magaziner. It is traditionally Democratic in presidential elections; no Republican has carried it in over three decades.
It is considered part of thePawtuxet River Valley [Wikidata]. Before its dissolution,Eckerd Corporation had its headquarters in Warwick.[30]
The ten largest employers in Warwick are Kent Memorial Hospital, Citizens Bank- Warwick Call Center, UPS, MetLife, City of Warwick, Leviton Manufacturing, Wal-Mart, Community College of Rhode Island, J.C. Penney, Kenney Manufacturing, and Inskip Automall.
Local public schools are operated byWarwick Public Schools.[36]Toll Gate High School andPilgrim High School are the two comprehensive public high schools located in Warwick. The high schools are set for renovations in March 2025, a year after the city council issued a $350 million bond to rebuild them.[37] The two public middle schools are Winman Junior High School and Warwick Veterans Junior High School. Aldrich Junior High School and Gorton Junior High School closed in 2016 as part of the school consolidation project.[38] The school department is headed by superintendent Lynn Dambruch.[39]
Bishop Hendricken High School is an all-malecollege preparatoryCatholic high school located in Warwick.[40]Rocky Hill School is aPre-K–12co-edsecularcountry day school located on Warwick's isolatedPotowomut peninsula. The school lists anEast Greenwich address, despite being geographically included as part of the city of Warwick.[41]
TheCommunity College of Rhode Island Knight Campus is also located in Warwick on the formerKnight Estate.[42]
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