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Damariscotta
Maine, United States · Population 2,297
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Winter heating joins the live tide widget up top. Property tax sits third: it does not change day to day, but it is the other big bill and the exemptions are easy to miss.
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Tide Times
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What Will It Cost to Heat This Winter?
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Highest Tides to Watch
Estimate Your Property Tax
Put in the assessed value from your bill to see roughly what a year comes to, what the homestead, veteran and blind exemptions take off, and which state programmes can lower it further.
Downtown Parking
Where to park downtown, the overflow lots, and the winter ban and snowstorm-lot rules that catch people out.
Flood Zone Check
Type an address, see its zone on FEMA's current flood map for Lincoln County in plain words — and what the 2015 map does and doesn't say about the water downtown already sees.
On the Water in 2026
Pumpkin regatta, oyster festival, and the spring alewife run — dates, places, and what fills up.
The Damariscotta Oyster Trail
Where to taste the river the town is famous for — buy oysters straight from a farm, ride out past the farms by boat, or sit down to a dozen in town.
Transfer Station
Whether the Nobleboro–Jefferson Transfer Station is open right now, its hours and holiday closures, who can use it, and what it takes.
How School Works Here
Who runs the schools after the 2025 change, where children go from pre-K through grade 8, and how high school tuition and choice work when the town runs no high school of its own.
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Changelog
- New toolShipped a winter heating cost planner
- New toolShipped a property tax estimator
- New toolShipped a flood zone check for Damariscotta and Newcastle addresses
- New toolShipped daily tide times for the Damariscotta River
- Town updateAdded a sketch of the river's oyster farms
- New toolThe Damariscotta Oyster Trail: four real ways to taste the river
- New toolAdded a Transfer Station guide
- New toolShipped a plain guide to how school works here
- New townDamariscotta, Maine is live
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