Northford is a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) comprising the primary village and surrounding residential and rural land in the town of
North Branford,
New Haven County
New Haven County is a county in the south central part of the U.S. state of Connecticut. As of the 2020 census, the population was 864,835, making it the third-most populous county in Connecticut. Two of the state's five largest cities, New Ha ...
,
Connecticut
Connecticut ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York (state), New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. ...
, 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 Wallingford may refer to:
People Surname
* Darcy Wallingford (fl. 1980s), Canadian swimmer
* Jesse Wallingford (1872–1944), British sport shooter and New Zealand army officer
* Sidney Wallingford (1898–1978), British-born aviator and New Zeal ...
, all in New Haven County. It is bordered to the northeast by the town of
Durham Durham most commonly refers to:
*Durham, England, a cathedral city in north east England
**County Durham, a ceremonial county which includes Durham
*Durham, North Carolina, a city in North Carolina, United States
Durham may also refer to:
Places
...
in
Middlesex County. In 2002, of the central village of Northford were designated as the
Northford Center Historic District
The Northford Center Historic District encompasses the historic village area of Northford in northern North Branford, Connecticut. The basically linear district extends along Middletown Avenue from the village center at its southern end, to a ...
.
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.
References
Census-designated places in New Haven County, Connecticut
Census-designated places in Connecticut
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