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The altitude at Town Hall is 120 feet (37 m). West Hartford is adjacent to and west of Hartford, the state capital, and borders Bloomfield, Newington, New Britain, Farmington, and Avon. West Hartford is approximately 100 miles (160 km) southwest of Boston and 120 miles (190 km) northeast of New York City. Interstate 84 runs through West Hartford.
Council-manager, Mayor-council, Representative town meeting, Town meeting The U.S. state of Connecticut is divided into 169 municipalities , including 19 cities, 149 towns and one borough, which are grouped into eight historical counties , as well as nine planning regions which serve as county equivalents .
The eighteenth Connecticut House of Representatives district elects one member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. Its current representative is Jillian Gilchrest . [ 1 ] The district consists of part of the town of West Hartford .
George Stoughton (1987–1989) Former Hartford State's Attorney, returned to the Court as a Judge Trial Referee (after turning 70 in 1989 and enabling Legislation in 1995), was still active at 91 and heard cases until his death in June 2011, including assisting Justice Borden in screening criminal cases for transfer to the Supreme Court.
Connecticut also has a fair number of non-incorporated communities that are known locally as villages (usually in more rural areas), neighborhoods or "sections of" a city or town. "Villages" in this local Connecticut sense have no separate legal/corporate existence from the town they are in, although a taxing district or volunteer fire ...
Hartford County is a county located in the north central part of the U.S. state of Connecticut.According to the 2020 census, the population was 899,498, [1] making it the second-most populous county in Connecticut.
The term originated in England; it was recorded in the form "doggette" in 1485, and later also as doket, dogget(t), docquett, docquet, and docket. [4] The derivation and original sense are obscure, although it has been suggested that it derives from the verb "to dock", in the sense of cutting short (e.g. the tail of a dog or horse); [4] a long document summarised has been docked, or docket ...
West Hill Dr. bounded by Farmington Ave., West Hartford, Connecticut Coordinates 41°45′59″N 72°43′28″W / 41.76639°N 72.72444°W / 41.76639; -72