Sterling
Sterling is a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region. The population was 3,578 at the 2020 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 3,580 residents
- Description: town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States
- Also known as: “Sterling Station”, “Sterling, Connecticut”, “Sterling, CT”, and “Stone Factory”
- Postal code: 06377
Places of Interest
Highlights include Glen Falls Bridge.
Glen Falls Bridge
Bridge
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The Glen Falls Bridge is a historic bridge that formerly carried Brunswick Avenue over the Moosup River in Plainfield, Connecticut. Built in 1886 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, it is one of a shrinking number of surviving 19th-century lenticular truss bridges in the state. Glen Falls Bridge is situated 2 miles west of Sterling.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oneco and Sterling Hill Historic District.
Sterling Hill Historic District
Neighborhood
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The Sterling Hill Historic District encompasses a well-preserved early 19th-century rural village center on western edge of the town of Sterling, Connecticut.
Moosup
Suburb
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Moosup is a village and census-designated place in the town of Plainfield, Connecticut, in the United States. The population was 3,166 at the 2024 census. Moosup is situated 2½ miles west of Sterling.
Sterling
Latitude
41.7076° or 41° 42′ 27″ northLongitude
-71.82868° or 71° 49′ 43″ westPopulation
3,580Elevation
299 feet (91 metres)United Nations Location Code
US S9GOpen location code
87HCP55C+2GOpenStreetMap ID
node 158910428OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Sterling” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ستيرلينغ”
- Basque: “Sterling”
- Catalan: “Sterling”
- Chechen: “Стерлинг”
- Chinese: “斯特林”
- Chinese: “斯特靈”
- Czech: “Sterling”
- Danish: “Sterling”
- Dutch: “Sterling”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ستيرلينج، كولورادو”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ستيرلينج”
- French: “Sterling”
- German: “Sterling”
- Haitian: “Sterling, Connecticut”
- Haitian: “Sterling”
- Hungarian: “Sterling”
- Italian: “Sterling”
- Kazakh: “Sterlïng”
- Kazakh: “Стерлинг”
- Kazakh: “ستەرلىينگ”
- Kirghiz: “Стерлинг”
- Mazanderani: “استرلینگ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sterling”
- Norwegian: “Sterling”
- Polish: “Sterling”
- Portuguese: “Sterling”
- Russian: “Стерлинг”
- Slovak: “Sterling”
- South Azerbaijani: “ایسترلینق، کانتیکت”
- Spanish: “Sterling (Connecticut)”
- Spanish: “Sterling”
- Swedish: “Sterling, Connecticut”
- Swedish: “Sterling”
- Tatar: “Стерлинг”
- Turkish: “Sterling”
- Ukrainian: “Стерлінг”
- Urdu: “سٹرلنگ، کنیکٹیکٹ”
- Urdu: “سٹرلنگ”
- Volapük: “Sterling”
- Welsh: “Sterling, Connecticut”
- Welsh: “Sterling”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sterling Post Office and Sterling Full Gospel Community Church.
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