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Stamford (/ ˈ s t æ m f ər d /) is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, 34 miles (55 kilometers) outside of New York City. It is the sixth-most populous city in New England. Stamford is also the largest city in the Western Connecticut Planning Region, and Connecticut's second-most populous city, behind Bridgeport.
Stamford is a town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 19,701 [3] ... Map by John Speed, ...
Stamford is a town in Delaware County, New York, United States. The population was 2,000 at the 2020 census. The population was 2,000 at the 2020 census. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] The town is in the eastern part of the county and has a village called Stamford .
In 1873, Stamford's Town School Committee created Stamford High School, to be housed in a room of the Centre School. [11] Originally, students had to pass an examination to gain admission into the high school. [11] King School, another private all-boys school, opened in 1876. [11]
Downtown Stamford, or Stamford Downtown, is the central business district of the city of Stamford, Connecticut, United States.It includes major retail establishments, a shopping mall, a university campus, the headquarters of major corporations and Fortune 500 companies, as well as other retail businesses, hotels, restaurants, offices, entertainment venues and high-rise apartment buildings.
Old North Stamford Road at Rippowam River in northern Stamford [31]: 2 41°06′54″N 73°32′42″W / 41.115°N 73.545°W / 41.115; -73.545 ( Turn-of-River A lenticular pony truss bridge built by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company in 1892, using a design patented by William O. Douglas in 1878 for a lens-type truss bridge .
Stamford (population 40,067 in 1920), was known as the "Lock City", as the home of the Yale and Towne Lock Manufacturing Company. [ 16 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ] [ 30 ] Bridgeport, nicknamed "Park City" had in 1930 over 500 factories within its borders.
The urbanized areas of Stamford and Bridgeport are contiguous and considered by the U.S. Census Bureau as a single urban core. [8] The towns containing this merged urbanized area, plus surrounding towns with significant commuter interchange to the central towns, are grouped together as the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk New England City and Town Area.