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Norfolk (/ ˈ n ɔːr f ʌ k / NOR-fuhk) is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,588 at the 2020 census. [1] The town is part of the Northwest Hills Planning Region. The urban center of the town is the Norfolk census-designated place, with a population of 553 at the 2010 census. [2]
The Norfolk Historic District encompasses the historic civic and commercial center of Norfolk, Connecticut.Centered around a triangular green at the junction of United States Route 44 and Connecticut Route 272, it is a well-preserved late 19th to early 20th-century town center, with a number of architecturally distinctive buildings and structures.
Norfolk is a census-designated place (CDP) in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is the central village within the town of Norfolk . As of the 2010 census , the population of the CDP was 553, [ 1 ] out of 1,709 in the entire town.
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 ...
The establishment of the town of Brookfield from part of New Milford in 1788 resulted in Litchfield County losing territory to Fairfield County. In 1796, the town of Hartland was transferred to Hartford County. In 1798, the town of Oxford was established from part of Southbury causing Litchfield County to lose territory to New Haven County.
Haystack Mountain [3] is a 1,680-foot-high (510 m) mountain topped with an observation tower that is the chief features of Haystack Mountain State Park, a 354-acre [4] public recreation area in the town of Norfolk, Connecticut.
The park is located in southern Norfolk, with its main access road off Connecticut Route 272. The road provides access to a picnic area, and a parking area further up the hill, from which there is access to hiking trails and the summit road. Dennis Hill stands at an elevation of 1,627 feet (496 m).
Route 182 begins at an intersection with US 44 in the town center of Norfolk and heads east towards the town of Colebrook. It crosses into Colebrook 1.6 miles (2.6 km) later, continuing east another 2.2 miles (3.5 km) to end at an intersection with Route 183 south of Colebrook center. Route 182A is a short loop route that goes through the town ...