Wolcott, Connecticut
| Wolcott, Connecticut | ||
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 Location in New Haven County, Connecticut |
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| Coordinates: 41°36′04″N 72°58′30″W / 41.60111°N 72.97500°WCoordinates: 41°36′04″N 72°58′30″W / 41.60111°N 72.97500°W | ||
| Country | United States | |
| State | Connecticut | |
| NECTA | Waterbury | |
| Region | Central Naugatuck Valley | |
| Incorporated | 1796 | |
| Government | ||
| • Type | Mayor-council | |
| • Mayor | Thomas G. Dunn (R) | |
| • Town Council | David Valletta (R), Chairman Rachel Wisler (R), Majority Leader Gale L. Mastrofrancesco (R), Vice Chairman Donald Charette, Sr. (R) Roger Picard (R) Jeffrey Slavin (R) Chuck Marsella (D) Joseph D. Bueno (D) Fran Masi (D) |
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| Area | ||
| • Total | 21.1 sq mi (54.6 km2) | |
| • Land | 20.4 sq mi (52.9 km2) | |
| • Water | 0.7 sq mi (1.8 km2) | |
| Elevation | 853 ft (260 m) | |
| Population (2010) | ||
| • Total | 16,680 | |
| • Density | 790/sq mi (310/km2) | |
| Time zone | Eastern (UTC-5) | |
| • Summer (DST) | Eastern (UTC-4) | |
| ZIP code | 06716 | |
| Area code(s) | 203 | |
| FIPS code | 09-87560 | |
| GNIS feature ID | 0213538 | |
| Website | www |
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Wolcott (local /ˈwʊlkət/) is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. It is primarily residential with a population of 16,680 at the 2010 census. Known as Farmingbury when it was settled in the 1730s by the Connecticut Colony, the town was renamed Wolcott after being incorporated in 1796.
As the end of the 17th-century grew near, the early towns of Waterbury and Farmington had come to occupy a great deal of west-central Connecticut in the Naugatuck River Valley and Farmington River Valley, respectively. At that time, the borderlands between these two towns were known as Farmingbury, a term derived by simply combining parts of the two town names.
Although individuals were living within the Farmingbury territory as early as the 1730s, they possessed no official identity apart from the parent towns of either Waterbury or Farmington. By 1770, the residents of Farmingbury successfully petitioned the Connecticut General Assembly to create the First Ecclesiastical Society of Farmingbury. Having established an independent parish, Farmingbury gained a good deal of religious, legal and financial independence from Waterbury and Farmington.
However, the political boundaries of the region remained unchanged for more than two decades afterwards. During that time the Farmingbury parish was largely self-sufficient, owing to its fairly remote location, but still officially considered to be part and parcel to Waterbury in the west and Farmington in the east. Thus, the parish society found itself handling several matters that would ordinarily have been municipal duties, such as managing taxes and local education.
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