Riverton is an

unincorporated village An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

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) in the town of Barkhamsted, Litchfield County,

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, United States. It is in the northwestern corner of the town, bordered to the north by the town of Hartland in

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. The village sits at the confluence of the Still River with the West Branch of the

Farmington River The Farmington River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 river located in northwest Connecticut, with major tributaries extending into southwest Massach ...

. Riverton was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. A total of of the village center comprise the Riverton Historic District.

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Census-designated places in Litchfield County, Connecticut Census-designated places in Connecticut {{Connecticut-geo-stub