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Northford, Connecticut
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Northford, Connecticut is located in Connecticut
Northford, Connecticut
Northford, Connecticut
Location in Connecticut
Northford, Connecticut is located in the United States
Northford, Connecticut
Northford, Connecticut
Location in the United States
Country  United States
State Connecticut
County New Haven
Town North Branford
Area
 • Total 20.71 km2 (8.00 sq mi)
 • Land 20.68 km2 (7.98 sq mi)
 • Water 0.03 km2 (0.01 sq mi)
Elevation
60 m (210 ft)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total 6,082
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP Code
06472
Area code(s) 203/475
FIPS code 09-54450
GNIS feature ID 2805986

Northford is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the primary village and surrounding residential and rural land in the town of North Branford, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. It is in the northern part of the town, bordered to the west by the town of North Haven, to the east by the town of Guilford, and to the north by the town of Wallingford, all in New Haven County. It is bordered to the northeast by the town of Durham in Middlesex County. In 2002, 230 acres (93 ha) of the central village of Northford were designated as the Northford Center Historic District.

Northford was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.

Religion

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. 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.

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