Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford
State capital
From top to bottom, left to right: Downtown seen from the Connecticut River, Hartford Seminary, Old State House, University of Connecticut School of Law, Connecticut State Capitol, and the Cheney Building
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Nicknames:  New England's Rising Star The Insurance Capital of the World
Motto(s):  Post Nubila Phoebus (Latin) "After the clouds, the sun"[1]
Hartford's location within Hartford County and Connecticut
Coordinates: 41°45′45″N 72°40′27″W / 41.76250°N 72.67417°W / 41.76250; -72.67417
Country	United States
State	Connecticut
County	Hartford
MSA	Greater Hartford
Settled	October 15, 1635; 388 years ago (1635-10-15)
Named	February 21, 1637; 387 years ago (1637-02-21)[2]
Incorporated (city)	May 29, 1784; 240 years ago (1784-05-29)[3]
Consolidated	April 1, 1896; 128 years ago (1896-04-01)[4]
Named for	Hertford, Hertfordshire
Area [5]
• State capital	18.05 sq mi (46.76 km2)
• Land	17.38 sq mi (45.01 km2)
• Water	0.68 sq mi (1.75 km2)
• Urban	535.93 sq mi (1,388.0 km2)
Elevation [6]	30 ft (9 m)
Population  (2020)[7]
• State capital	121,054
• Density	6,965.1/sq mi (2,689.5/km2)
• Urban	977,158 (US: 47th)
• Urban density	1,823.3/sq mi (704.0/km2)
• Metro	1,214,295 (US: 48th)
• CSA	1,489,361 (US: 41st)
Demonym	Hartfordite
Time zone	UTC−05:00 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−04:00 (EDT)
ZIP Codes	061xx
Area code(s)	860/959
FIPS code	09-37000
GNIS feature ID	2378277[8]
Primary airport	Bradley International Airport
Secondary airport	Hartford–Brainard Airport
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Website	www.hartford.gov

Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is on the Connecticut River and only 24 miles from Springfield, Massachusetts. The city of Hartford had 121,054 people as of 2020.^[7] This is the third most people in the state behind Bridgeport and New Haven. It is an important center of Insurance. Airline service is provided from Bradley International Airport.

Hartford has an American Hockey League team called the Hartford Wolf Pack, a rugby team called the Hartford Wanderers and a United Football League team called the Hartford Colonials. From 1979 to 1997 Hartford had a National Hockey League team called the Hartford Whalers.

1. ↑ "Mayor Bronin Delivers State of the City Address". City of Hartford. March 13, 2017. Archived from the original on March 27, 2017. Post Nubila Phoebus – after the clouds, the sun. Our city's motto, written a long time ago, but written for such a time as this
2. ↑ Burpee, Charles W (1928). History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633–1928: being a study of the first makers of the Constitution and the story of their lives, of their descendants and of all who have come. Vol. I. Chicago: S. J. Clarke. p. 41.
3. ↑ Municipal Register of the City of Hartford. Hartford: The Smith-Linsley Company. 1909. p. 36.
4. ↑ "State and Municipal Compendium". The Commercial & Financial Chronicle. New York. April 1, 1897. p. 37. The town and city of Hartford were consolidated on April 1, 1896, and their debts are no longer reported separately
5. ↑ "2019 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
6. ↑ "Geographic Names Information System". edits.nationalmap.gov. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} "QuickFacts: Hartford city, Connecticut". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
8. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hartford, Connecticut