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Branford

town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
City Town in the United States Q898484

Facts

18 properties

Identity

Instance of
town in the United States
Inception
1644[7]
Official website
www.branford-ct.gov[8]
Native label
Branford[15]
Official name
Branford[12]

Location

Country
United States[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 41.278°, -72.800°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
South Central Connecticut Planning Region, New Haven County[2][3]

Population and size

Area
28.0 sq mi[19]
Elevation above sea level
13 m, 14 m[17][18]
Population
28,026 (2010), 28,273 (2020)[9][10]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 28,026 · 28,273 GeoNames 29,438 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
203[6]
Postal code
06405[5]
More facts +5
Demonym
Branfordite[14]
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11]
Different from
Branford[16]
Number of households
12,707 (2020)[13]
Per capita income
50,107 USD (2020)[20]
🏷️ Also known as
en Branford, Connecticut en Branford en Branford, CT ar برانفورد el Μπάνφορντ es Branford (Connecticut) he ברנפורד it Branford (Connecticut) ja ブランフォード ru Бранфорд sv Branford, Connecticut uk Бренфорд zh 布兰福德 zh 布蘭佛德 zh 布蘭福德
🔖 Identifiers · 24
ISNI
0000000406201196
VIAF cluster ID
146598269
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n82023629
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Branford, Connecticut town hall and courthouse.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
11623
BabelNet ID
00207256n
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/United_States/Connecticut/Localities/B/Branford/
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Branford
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
09-07310
Freebase ID
/m/0rfcd
GNIS Feature ID
213395
GeoNames ID
5283054
Show all 24 identifiers +12
J9U entity ID
987007557576505171
MusicBrainz area ID
f1c96b26-232f-4ff3-bc69-44781ae533af
NL CR AUT ID
ge1094659
OpenStreetMap relation ID
11049393
Quora topic ID
Branford-CT
RKD thesaurus ID
30488
Ringgold ID
100226
Topic's main category
Category:Branford, Connecticut
UN/LOCODE
USBFC
Who's on First ID
85868741
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJmP3bMtqXGXgXbYDWvmBP
Yale LUX ID
place/38ab7582-2e7a-4193-b607-cea02d002295

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🔗 Connections
People who died here 20
Thomas A. Steitz, Immanuel Wallerstein, Arthur Kennedy, Virginia Henderson, Franz Rosenthal, Rex Everhart, Lili Chookasian, Beverly Willis +12 more
People born here 3
Alex Deibold, Henry B. Plant, Bob Rivers
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Branford, Connecticut
Contained subdivisions 1
Branford News
Country 1
United States
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Different from 1
Branford
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
New Haven County
Located in time zone 1
Eastern Time Zone
Residents 1
Selma Engel-Wijnberg
Topic's main category 1
Category:Branford, Connecticut
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Branford, Connecticut
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Branford, Connecticut
← Different from 1
Branford
← Headquarters location 1
454 Life Sciences
← Place of publication 1
Branford News
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Summary

Branford is a town in the United States[1].

Related Entities

Arthur Kennedy Immanuel Wallerstein Thomas A. Steitz United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . scrcog.org. scrcog.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . newspapers.com. newspapers.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → South Central Connecticut Planning Region, New Haven County
    Official website → https://www.branford-ct.gov/
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Branford, Connecticut
    Coordinate location → 41.278°, -72.800°
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #46950: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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