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There are 102 counties in Illinois. The most populous of these is Cook County, the second-most populous county in the United States and the home of Chicago, while the least populous is Hardin County. The largest by land area is McLean County, while the smallest is Putnam County. Illinois's FIPS state code is 17 and its postal abbreviation is IL.
Encompassing 10,286 square mi (28,120 km 2), the metropolitan area includes the city of Chicago, its suburbs and hinterland, that span 13 counties across northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana. The MSA had a 2020 census population of 9,618,502 and the combined statistical area, which spans 19 counties and additionally extends into southeast ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 39.9 square miles (103.3 km 2), of which 39.0 square miles (101.1 km 2) is land and 0.9 square miles (2.2 km 2), or 2.16%, is water. The town of Wallingford sits astride the Quinnipiac River in northern New Haven County, roughly
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.
Wallingford was founded in the 1670s, but saw its major growth as a commercial and industrial center beginning in the mid-19th century, when local businessman began manufacturing silver products. The Simpson and Wallace families that dominated this business also built commercial blocks in the downtown area that still stand.
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. Currently, Tolland County and Windham County are the only counties in Connecticut without a single city in them.
Chicago's present natural geography is a result of the large glaciers of the Ice Age, namely the Wisconsinan Glaciation that carved out the modern basin of Lake Michigan (which formed from the glacier's meltwater). The city of Chicago itself sits on the Chicago Plain, a flat plain that was once the bottom of ancestral Lake Chicago. This plain ...
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 ...