Stamford, Connecticut
Stamford, Connecticut | |
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| Eik-name(s): The City That Works, Lock City | |
 Location in Fairfield Coonty, Connecticut | |
  Stamford, Connecticut Location in the Unitit States | |
| Coordinates: 41°03′10″N 73°32′20″W / 41.05278°N 73.53889°WCoordinates: 41°03′10″N 73°32′20″W / 41.05278°N 73.53889°W | |
| Kintra | Unitit States |
| State | Connecticut |
| Coonty | Fairfield |
| NECTA | Bridgeport-Stamford |
| Region | South Western Region |
| Settled (toun) | 1641 |
| Incorporatit (ceety) | 1949 |
| Consolidatit | 1949 |
| Govrenment | |
| • Teep | Mayor-Board of representatives |
| • Mayor | David Martin (D) |
| Area | |
| • Ceety | 134.9 km2 (52.1 sq mi) |
| • Laund | 97.9 km2 (37.7 sq mi) |
| • Water | 37.0 km2 (14.3 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 1205 km2 (465 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 7 m (23 ft) |
| Population (2013)[1] | |
| • Ceety | 126,456 |
| • Density | 1226/km2 (3,180/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 916,829 |
| Demonym(s) | Stamfordian |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastren) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (Eastren) |
| ZIP code | 069xx |
| Area code | 203/475 |
| FIPS code | 09-73000 |
| GNIS featur ID | 0211129 |
| Website | www.cityofstamford.org |
Stamford is a ceety in Fairfield Coonty, Connecticut, Unitit States. Accordin tae the 2010 census, the population o the ceety is 122,643. As o 1 Julie 2014, accordin tae the Census Bureau, the population o Stamford haed risen tae 128,278, makkin it the third lairgest ceety in the state an the seiventh lairgest ceety in New Ingland. Approximately 30 mile frae Manhattan, Stamford is in the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk Metro aurie which is a pairt o the Greater New York metropolitan aurie.
Stamford is hame tae fower Fortune 500 Companies,[2] nine Fortune 1000 Companies, an 13 Courant 100 Companies, as well as numerous divisions of muckle corporations. This gies Stamford the lairgest financial destrict in New York Metro ootside New York Ceety itsel an ane o the lairgest concentrations o corporations in the naition.
Sister ceeties
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Afula, Israel[3]
Jiangdu, Cheenae[4]
Lima, Peru
Minturno, Italy- Settefrati, Italy[5]
Sparti, Greece[6]
References
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- ↑ "Connecticut population in 2010". 2011 Population Estimates. U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division. Mairch 2011. Archived frae the original (CSV) on 2 Julie 2017. Retrieved 9 Julie 2007.
- ↑ "Four Stamford Companies Make The Fortune 500 List". The Stamford Daily Voice. 6 Mey 2013.
- ↑ "Jewish congregation working with sister city in Israel" (PDF). congregationagudathsholom.org. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 24 December 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ http://www.sister-cities.org/icrc/directory/USA/CT Archived 2006-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ http://www.sister-cities.org/icrc/directory/usa/CT Archived 2006-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
Further readin
- Huntington, E.B. (1868). History of Stamford, Connecticut: from its settlement in 1641, to the present. Stamford, CT: The Author. OCLC 11665950.
- Burns, Rosemary (1982). Springdale remembered : the history of a section of Stamford, Connecticut, 1640-1949. Stamford, CT: Stamford Historical Society. OCLC 9093878.
- Mecca, Gregg D. (1984). "Made in Stamford: A History of Stamford as a Manufacturing Center". Stamford, CT: Stamford Historical Society. Retrieved 8 Julie 2014. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - Majdalany, Jeanne; Wicks, Edith (1992). The story of the early settlers of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641-1700. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books. ISBN 9781556136108.
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