Trumbull
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town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Connecticut
- County
- Fairfield
- Region
- CT Metropolitan
- Settled
- 1639 as Stratford
- Incorporated
- 1797 as Trumbull
- Type
- First selectman-Town council
- First selectman
- Vicki Tesoro (D)
- Total
- 23.5 sq mi (60.9 km )
- Land
- 23.3 sq mi (60.3 km )
- Water
- 0.23 sq mi (0.6 km )
- Elevation
- 266 ft (81 m)
- Density
- 1,580.6/sq mi (610.3/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( Eastern )
- Zip code
- 06611
- Area codes
- 203/475
- Fips code
- 09-77200
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Encyclopedic overview
Trumbull is a town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, and borders on the cities of Bridgeport and Shelton, as well as the towns of Stratford, Fairfield, Easton and Monroe. The population was 36,827 during the 2020 census. The Trumbull area was the home of the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation for thousands of years before the English settlement was made in 1639.
After independence, the successful American Yankees named the town after one of their own, Jonathan Trumbull (1710–1785), a merchant, Patriot (American soldier) and statesman. Aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky lived in Trumbull during his active years, when he designed, built, and flew fixed-wing aircraft and put the helicopter into mass production for the first time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Trumbull” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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