Connecticut's Towns

Salisbury North Canaan Norfolk Colebrook Hartland Granby Suffield Enfield Somers Stafford Union Woodstock Thompson Canaan East Granby Barkhamsted Winchester Eastford Ashford Willington Ellington Windsor Locks East Windsor Putnam Tolland Windsor Sharon Canton Simsbury Cromwall Pomfret Goshen Killingly Bloomfield New Hartford Torrington Vernon South Windsor Coventry Mansfield Chaplin Hampton Brooklyn Avon Manchester Burlington Hartford Bolton West Hartford East Hartford Harwinton Litchfield Kent Warren Sterling Farmington Plainfield Andover Canterbury Windham Scotland Glastonbury Columbia Hebron Wetherfield Newington Bristol Morris New Britain Lebanon Plymouth Washington Thomaston Plainville Marlborough Rocky Hill New Milford Watertown Bethlehem Sherman Franklin Sprague Southington Berlin Lisbon Voluntown East Hampton Griswold Wolcott Portland Cromwell Colchester Waterbury Woodbury Norwich Roxbury Middletown Bozrah Meriden Preston Middlebury Bridgewater Cheshire Middlefield Salem East Haddam New Fairfield Old Lyme North Stonington Montville Naugatuck Haddam Brookfield Wallingford Southbury Durham Oxford Ledyard Newtown Bethany Beacon Falls Danbury Hampden East Lyme Killingworth Lyme Madison Stonington North Haven Chester Guilford Bethel Waterford North Branford Seymour Groton Deep River Woodbridge Monroe New London Essex Ridgefield Shelton Old Lyme East Haven Ansonia Derby Redding New Haven Westbrook Old Saybrook Clinton Easton Branford Orange West Haven Trumbull Milford Weston Stratford Wilton Fairfield Bridgeport New Canaan Westport Stamford Norwalk Greenwich Darien
Incorporated -
Origin of Name -
Population Area  
1850
Acres
1900
Square Miles
1950
Square Km
2000
Rank (1-169)
Belongs to    
 
       

Land Cover and Land Cover Change

1985
1990
1995
2002
Change
acres
% of town
acres
% of town
acres
% of town
acres
% of town
acres
% change*
Developed
0%
%
%
%
%
Turf & Grass
0%
%
%
%
%
Other Grasses & Agriculture
0%
%
%
%
%
Deciduous Forest
0%
%
%
%
%
Coniferous Forest
0%
%
%
%
%
Water
0%
%
%
%
%
Non-forested Wetland
0%
%
%
%
%
Forested Wetland
0%
%
%
%
%
Tidal Wetland
0%
%
%
%
%
Barren
0%
%
%
%
%
Utility Right-of-Way
0%
%
%
%
%

* as a percentage of the 1985 land cover area

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2002 Land Cover
1985-2002 Change
 
 
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1985-2002 Land Cover Change Animation