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Nineteen of the towns in Connecticut are consolidated city-towns, and one is a consolidated borough-town. City incorporation requires a Special Act by the Connecticut General Assembly . All cities in Connecticut are dependent municipalities, meaning they are located within and subordinate to a town.
A map of Connecticut The U.S. state of Connecticut is bordered on the south by Long Island Sound , on the west by New York , on the north by Massachusetts , and on the east by Rhode Island . The state capital and fourth largest city is Hartford , and other major cities and towns (by population) include Bridgeport , New Haven , Stamford ...
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 ...
New Canaan is the wealthiest town in Connecticut, with a per capita income of $105,846. Hartford is the poorest municipality in Connecticut, with a per capita income of $16,798 in 2020. [172] At the county level, per capita income ranged from $48,295 in Fairfield County to $26,585 in Windham County, which is close to the United States average ...
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.
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated two combined statistical areas, five metropolitan statistical areas, and two micropolitan statistical areas in Connecticut. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these in the state is the New Haven-Hartford-Waterbury, CT CSA , encompassing the entire state outside of the Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT MSA in the ...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau in 2010, the county had a total area of 751 square miles (1,950 km 2), of which 735 square miles (1,900 km 2) is land and 16 square miles (41 km 2) (2.1%) is water. [7] It is the second-largest county in Connecticut by land area.
The county has a total area of 439 square miles (1,140 km 2), of which 369 square miles (960 km 2) is land and 70 square miles (180 km 2) (15.9%) is water. [3] It is the smallest county in Connecticut by land area and second-smallest by total area.