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Towns in Connecticut are allowed to adopt a city form of government without the need to re-incorporate as an inner-city. Connecticut state law also makes no distinction between a consolidated town/city and a regular town. Bolded city names indicate the state's largest cities, with the most populated being Bridgeport.
The state capital and fourth largest city is Hartford, and other major cities and towns (by population) include Bridgeport, New Haven, Stamford, Waterbury, Norwalk, Danbury, New Britain, Greenwich, and Bristol. There are 169 incorporated towns in Connecticut, with cities and villages included within some towns. [1]
Like many Connecticut towns, there's also an outdoor draw: Silver Sands State Park, a public recreation space with beaches, dunes, restored marshland, and a 14-acre bird sanctuary.
Union has the highest town center in eastern Connecticut at 1,015 feet (309 m) and the 4th highest in the state. [8] The highest elevation in eastern Connecticut is 1,315 feet (401 m) Burley Hill in the northwestern part of town. [9] In addition, I-84 reaches its highest elevation in Connecticut (1,002 feet (305 m)) in Union.
Maybe you’re plotting a cross-country move or perhaps you’re simply eager (read, anxious) to take a weekend-long break from a neighboring big city. Either way, good old CT (also known as the ...
The Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region is a planning region and county-equivalent in Connecticut. It is served by the coterminous Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments ( SCCOG ). In 2022, planning regions were approved to replace Connecticut's counties as county-equivalents for statistical purposes, with full implementation ...
Overall population growth in Connecticut from 2010 to 2020 was just a fraction of 1%, but many individual cities and towns posted far more impressive gains, with some communities expanding by 10% ...
The eastern towns, including Hartland, Barkhamsted, and New Hartford contain large water supply reservoirs to the city of Hartford. Culturally, the Litchfield Hills are politically more conservative than the rest of Connecticut, with Litchfield County being the only county in the state to vote for George W. Bush in the 2004 election.