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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

Windham County, Connecticut

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

County Seat: Willimantic
Year Organized: 1726
Square Miles: 513

Court House:

Town Building

979 Main St.
Willimantic, CT 06226-0000

Etymology - Origin of County Name

After Windham (now Wineham) in Sussex, England

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Windham County is located in the northeast corner of the State of Connecticut, bordered on the east by Rhode Island, to the north by Massachusetts, on the west by Tolland County, and to the south by New London County. Connecticut's fifth established county, it is the least populous. The total land area covered by Windham County is 513 square miles.

Neighboring Counties:

North: Worcester County, Mass.
East: Providence County, R.I.
Southeast: Kent County, R.I.
Southwest: New London County
West: Tolland County

Cities and Towns:

- Ashford	town
- Brooklyn	town
- Canterbury	town
- Chaplin	town
- Danielson	borough	Incorporated Area
- Eastford	town
- Hampton	town
- Killingly	town
- Plainfield	town
- Pomfret	town
- Putnam	town
- Scotland	town
- Sterling	town
- Thompson	town
- Willimantic (County Seat)
- Windham	town
- Woodstock	town

County Resources:

1. Killingly Historical Center (Danielson 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."