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Tolland County
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county in Connecticut, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Connecticut
- Named after
- Tolland, Somerset
- Seat
- none (since 1960), Tolland (1785-1889), Rockville (1889-1960)
- Largest town
- Vernon
- Total
- 417 sq mi (1,080 km )
- Land
- 410 sq mi (1,100 km )
- Water
- 6.8 sq mi (18 km ) 1.6%
- Density
- 359.2/sq mi (138.7/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
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Encyclopedic overview
Tolland County (/ˈtɒlənd/) is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Connecticut. As of the 2020 census, its population was 149,788. It is incorporated into 13 towns and was originally formed on October 13, 1785, from portions of eastern Hartford County and western Windham County.
The county is included in the Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tolland County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.