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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 .
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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.
The two finally joined to become Orange (incorporated as a town in 1822). In 1921, West Haven split from Orange to become a separate town . It was incorporated as a city in 1961 and is known as "Connecticut's Youngest City", [ 7 ] although it is also one of the state's oldest settlements.
Area codes in CT. This is a list of area codes in Connecticut: [1] 203: Covering southwestern Connecticut (Fairfield County (except for Sherman); New Haven County, and the towns of Bethlehem, Woodbury, as well as a small part of Roxbury in Litchfield County); one of the original area codes enacted in 1947; 475: Overlay of 203 (December 2009)
The town of Wallingford was established in 1670 in unincorporated area north of New Haven and formally added to New Haven County in 1671. In 1675, the town of Derby was established north of Milford. In 1686, the town of Waterbury was established, but was assigned as part of Hartford County.
Berlin (/ ˈ b ɜːr l ɪ n / BUR-lin) is a town in the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, United States. The population was 20,175 at the 2020 census. [2] It was incorporated in 1785. The geographic center of Connecticut is located in the town. Berlin is residential and industrial, and is served by the Amtrak station of the same name.
Old Greenwich is a coastal village in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. [2] [3] As of the 2010 census it had a population of 6,611.[4]The town of Greenwich is one political and taxing body, but consists of several distinct sections or neighborhoods, such as Byram, Cos Cob, Glenville, Mianus, Old Greenwich, Riverside, and Greenwich (sometimes referred to as central, or downtown ...