Northford, Connecticut | |
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 Northford Country Market | |
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| Coordinates:41°23′31″N72°47′31″W / 41.39194°N 72.79194°W /41.39194; -72.79194 | |
| Country |  United States |
| State | Connecticut |
| County | New Haven |
| Town | North Branford |
| Area | |
• Total | 8.00 sq mi (20.71 km2) |
| • Land | 7.98 sq mi (20.68 km2) |
| • Water | 0.012 sq mi (0.03 km2) |
| Elevation | 210 ft (64 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 6,082[1] |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP Code | 06472 |
| Area codes | 203/475 |
| FIPS code | 09-54450 |
| GNIS feature ID | 2805986[3] |
Northford is acensus-designated place (CDP) comprising the primary village and surrounding residential and rural land in the town ofNorth Branford,New Haven County,Connecticut, United States. It is in the northern part of the town, bordered to the west by the town ofNorth Haven, to the east by the town ofGuilford, and to the north by the town ofWallingford, all in New Haven County. It is bordered to the northeast by the town ofDurham inMiddlesex County. In 2002, 230 acres (93 ha) of the central village of Northford were designated as theNorthford Center Historic District.
Northford was first listed as a CDP prior to the2020 census.
A Congregational church was organized at Northford in 1750 and its current building dates to 1846. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church was first organized in 1763. The present edifice was dedicated on November 10, 1940, having been rebuilt to resemble its predecessor, which dated to 1845 and was destroyed by fire in 1938.[4] St. Monica's Roman Catholic Church was founded in the 1950s as a mission of St. Augustine's, North Branford. In 2016 it merged back into St. Augustine's to form a new entity: the parish of St. Ambrose, the first such merger in the Archdiocese of Hartford.[5]
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