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This irregularity in the boundary is the result of territorial disputes in the late 17th century, culminating with New York giving up its claim to the area, whose residents considered themselves part of Connecticut, in exchange for an equivalent area extending northwards from Ridgefield to the Massachusetts border, as well as undisputed claim ...
From Low's Encyclopaedia Map of Philipse Patent (showing the Oblong and Gore) The Connecticut panhandle is the southwestern appendage of Connecticut , where it abuts New York State . It is contained entirely in Fairfield County and the Western Connecticut Planning Region , and includes all of Greenwich , Stamford , New Canaan , and Darien , [ 1 ...
Map of the counties of colonial Connecticut, 1766. There are eight counties in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Four of the counties – Fairfield, Hartford, New Haven and New London – were created in 1666, shortly after the Connecticut Colony and the New Haven Colony combined. Windham and Litchfield counties were created later in the colonial ...
Connecticut made agreements with Pennsylvania and New York which extinguished the land claims within those states' boundaries and created the Connecticut Panhandle. The state then ceded the Western Reserve in 1800 to the federal government, [62] which brought it to its present boundaries (other than minor adjustments with Massachusetts).
Table of United States congressional district boundary maps in the State of Connecticut, presented chronologically. [4] All redistricting events that took place in Connecticut between 1973 and 2013 are shown.
“The boundary would begin at the northwestern corner of Greenwich, proceed along a line eight miles north of and parallel to the Long Island Sound, then turn due north, extending to Massachusett's southern line.” [13] In respect of the 1664 oral agreement, because Greenwich and Stamford were less than 20 miles from the Hudson the line was ...
The date of the impact coincides precisely with the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K–Pg boundary), slightly more than 66 million years ago. [7] The crater is estimated to be over 150 km (93 mi) in diameter [10] and 20 km (12 mi) in depth, well into the continental crust of the region of about 10–30 km (6.2–18.6 mi) depth.
Map of Fairfield County, Connecticut labeling types of municipalities by color. Towns in light green, Cities in Red, and Boroughs in Dark Red Map of Fairfield County, Connecticut showing cities, boroughs, towns, and CDPs. Note: Villages are named localities within towns, but have no separate corporate existence from the towns they are in.