Borough (Connecticut)

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In the U.S. state of Connecticut, a borough is an incorporated area that typically provides services to a section (usually urban in nature) of a town. Borough governments are not autonomous and are subordinate to the government of the town they belong to. A borough is a clearly defined municipality and provides some municipal services, such as police and fire services, garbage collection, street lighting and maintenance, management of cemeteries, and building code enforcement. Other municipal services not provided by the borough are provided by the parent town. Connecticut boroughs are administratively similar to villages in New York.

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[edit] List of boroughs

As of 2007, there are nine boroughs in Connecticut. Historically, there had been more but most have since either disincorporated or have become cities. Of the current boroughs, one (Naugatuck) is consolidated with its town. Below is a list of boroughs that have existed ordered by date of incorporation. Currently existing boroughs are indicated in boldface.

Borough	Parent town	Date incorporated	Current status
Bridgeport	Stratford	1800	Consolidated city-town separate from original parent town since 1889
Stonington	Stonington	1801	Borough
Guilford	Guilford	1815	Disincorporated 1941
Essex	Deep River (Saybrook)	1820	Disincorporated 1854 when Town of Essex was incorporated
Clinton	Killingworth	1820	Disincorporated 1838 when Town of Clinton was incorporated
Danbury	Danbury	1822	Consolidated city-town since 1965
Newtown	Newtown	1824	Borough
Colchester	Colchester	1824/1846	Disincorporated 1990
Waterbury	Waterbury	1825	Consolidated city-town since 1902
Stamford	Stamford	1830	Consolidated city-town since 1949
Southport	Fairfield	1831	Disincorporated 1854
Willimantic	Windham	1833	Disincorporated as city in 1983
Clifton	Winchester	1833	Disincorporated ?
Worthington	Berlin	1834	Disincorporated ?
Norwalk	Norwalk	1836	Consolidated city-town since 1913
Humphreysville	Derby	1836	Disincorporated ?
Bethel	Danbury	1847	Town of Bethel separated from Danbury in 1855; Borough disincorporated (?)
New Britain	New Britain	1850	Consolidated city-town since 1906
Birmingham	Derby	1851	Consolidated city-town since 1893 (as Derby)
Wallingford	Wallingford	1853	Disincorporated 1958
Sharon	Sharon	1853	Disincorporated ?
Danielson	Killingly	1854	Borough
Greenwich	Greenwich	1854	Disincorporated 1932
Winsted	Winchester	1858	Consolidated with Winchester 1915; Chartered as city in 1917
Ansonia	Derby	1864	Consolidated city-town separate from original parent town since 1893
Branford	Branford	1867	Disincorporated 1970s
West Stratford	Stratford	1873	Disincorporated 1889 (now part of the city of Bridgeport)
West Haven	Orange	1873	Consolidated city-town separate from original parent town since 1961
Stafford Springs	Stafford	1873	Disincorporated 1991
Fair Haven East	New Haven	1875	Disincorporated 1897
Litchfield	Litchfield	1879	Borough
Shelton	Shelton (Huntington)	1882	Consolidated city-town since 1915
Torrington	Torrington	1887	Consolidated city-town since 1923
New Canaan	New Canaan	1889	Disincorporated 1935
Southington	Southington	1889	Disincorporated 1948
Naugatuck	Naugatuck	1893	Consolidated borough-town since 1895
Bristol	Bristol	1893	Consolidated city-town since 1911
Jewett City	Griswold	1895	Borough
Fenwick	Old Saybrook	1899	Borough
Farmington	Farmington	1901	Disincorporated 1947
Ridgefield	Ridgefield	1901	Disincorporated 1921
Groton	Groton	1903	Chartered as non-coextensive city in 1964
Woodmont	Milford	1903	Borough
Bantam	Litchfield	1915	Borough
Unionville	Farmington	1921	Disincorporated 1947

[edit] References

C.H. Carter, "Connecticut boroughs", New Haven Colony Historical Society Papers, Vol. IV (1886), p. 149
S. Matthews, The Woman Citizen's Library, (The Civics Society, Chicago, 1913), Vol. 4, Chap. 8
N.M. Schoonmaker, The Actual Government of Connecticut, (National Woman Suffrage Publishing, 1919)
C.H. Douglas, The Government of the People of the State of Connecticut, (Hinds, Hayden and Eldredge, 1917)
Various editions of the Connecticut State Register and Manual
R.A. Ferry, "A short directory of the names, past and current of Connecticut boroughs", (Connecitcut Ancestry Society, 1996)
W.E. Buckley and C.E. Perry, "Connecticut, the state and its government", (Oxford Book Co., 1948)
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed through LoveToKnow1911