Stamford
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Stamford, Connecticut
In the twentieth century, Stamford, the fifth largest city in Connecticut, progressed from a factory hub to its current position as a research center. By the end of the twentieth century, it had also become the nation's third largest corporate headquarters community. The city enjoys both urban and suburban facets, ranging from upscale housing areas, to a handsome corporate downtown center, to areas of beautiful shoreline with parks and beaches.
The City in Brief
| 1641 (incorporated, 1949) | |
| Mayor Dannel P. Malloy (D) (since 1995) | |
| 102,466 | |
| 108,056 | |
| 117,083 | |
| 120,107 | |
| 8.3% | |
| 161st | |
| 177th (State rank: 5th) | |
| 209th | |
| 329,935 | |
| 353,556 | |
| 7.1% | |
| 1st (Greater New York, NY CMSA) | |
| 1st (CMSA) | |
| 38 square miles (2000) | |
| 34 feet above sea level | |
| 51.9° F | |
| 49.46 inches | |
| Manufacturing, trade, services | |
| 4.9% (March 2005) | |
| $34,987 (1999) | |
| 2,398 | |
| St. Basil's College; branches of the University of Connecticut and Bridgeport Engineering Institute | |
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Stamford
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Stam·ford
A city of southwest Connecticut on Long Island Sound and the New York border. Settled in 1641, it is primarily residential. Population: 119,000.
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Stam·ford
Stamford, city (1990 pop. 108,056), Fairfield co., SW Conn., on Long Island Sound; settled 1641, inc. 1893 as a city within the town of Stamford (the two were consolidated in 1949). A variety of light industrial goods are produced there, such as machinery, fabricated metal products, and chemicals. Since the 1970s, Stamford has become home to numerous corporate headquarters that moved here from New York City. It is also a residential community for many New York City commuters. Cummings Park is on the sound. The sanctuary of the First Presbyterian Church was designed by Wallace K. Harrison and built (1958) in the shape of a whale. The Stamford Museum has a nature center and an observatory. A branch of the Univ. of Connecticut is in the city.
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‘stone ford’ or ‘stony ford’, OE stān + ford: Stamford Lincolnshire Steanford 10th cent., Stanford (1086) (DB). Stamford Bridge East Riding of City & County of Yorkshire Stanford brycg (c.1075). The ford here was replaced by a bridge at an early date.
| Stambourne, Stalybridge, Stalmine | |
| Stamford Hill, Stamfordham, Stamullen |
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