Official Name: | Northford, Connecticut |
Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
Pushpin Map: | Connecticut#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Northford |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Coordinates: | 41.3919°N -72.7919°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Connecticut |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | New Haven |
Subdivision Type3: | Town |
Subdivision Name3: | North Branford |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 20.71 |
Area Land Km2: | 20.68 |
Area Water Km2: | 0.03 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 6,082 [2] |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 210 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code |
Postal Code: | 06472 |
Area Code: | 203/475 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 09-54450 |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 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, 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.
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. [3] 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.[4]