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Connecticut Counties

There arecurrently eight Counties in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Four of them were originally created in 1666, during the first consolidation of the colony of Connecticut from a number of smaller colonies. Two more Counties were created during colonial times, and only two counties, Middlesex and Tolland counties, have been created since American independence, both in 1785. The majority of Connecticut Counties are named for locations in England, where many early Connecticut settlers originated

Connecticut is divided into geographic regions called counties, but they do not have functioning governments, as defined by the Census Bureau

Litchfield County, Connecticut

Litchfield County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Litchfield
Year Organized: 1751
Square Miles: 920

Court House:

P.O. Box 247
Litchfield, CT 06759-0247

Etymology - Origin of County Name

City of Lichfield in the UK

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Litchfield County is located in the northwest corner of the State of Connecticut, bordered on the east by Hartford County, to the north by Massachusetts, on the west by New York State, and to the south by Fairfield and New Haven Counties. Connecticut's sixth county, it is the largest in land mass. The total land area covered by Litchfield County is 920 square miles.

Neighboring Counties:

North: Berkshire County, Mass.
Northeast: Hampden County, Mass.
East: Hartford County
Southeast: New Haven County
South: Fairfield County
West: Dutchess County, N.Y.

Cities and Towns:

- Bantam	borough	Incorporated Area
- Barkhamsted	town
- Bethlehem	town
- Bridgewater	town
- Canaan	town
- Colebrook	town
- Cornwall	town
- Goshen	town
- Harwinton	town
- Kent	town
- Litchfield (County Seat)	borough	Incorporated Area
- Morris	town
- New Hartford	town
- New Milford	town
- Norfolk	town
- North Canaan	town
- Plymouth	town
- Roxbury	town
- Salisbury	town
- Sharon	town
- Thomaston	town
- Torrington	city	Incorporated Area
- Warren	town
- Washington	town
- Watertown	town
- Winchester	town
- Woodbury	town

County Resources:

1. Beardsley and Memorial Library (Winsted CT)
2. Litchfield Historical Society - Ingraham Memorial Research Library (Litchfield CT)

County Resources

The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."