Fairfield
Fairfield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It borders the city of Bridgeport and towns of Trumbull, Easton, Weston, and Westport along the Gold Coast of Connecticut.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 57,800 residents
- Description: town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States
- Also known as: “Fairfield, Connecticut”, “Fairfield, CT”, and “Uncoa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fairfield University and Fairfield Museum and History Center.
Fairfield University
University
Photo: Stagophile, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fairfield University is a private Jesuit university in Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1942. In 2023, the university had about 5,000 full-time undergraduate students and 1,200 graduate students, including full-time and part-time students.
Fairfield Museum and History Center
Museum
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The Fairfield Museum and History Center is a museum and research library located at 370 Beach Road in Fairfield, Connecticut. Established in 2007 by the 103 year old Fairfield Historical Society, the Fairfield Museum.
Connecticut Audubon Birdcraft Museum
Museum
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The Connecticut Audubon Society Birdcraft Museum and Sanctuary, also known as Birdcraft Museum & Sanctuary or simply Birdcraft Sanctuary, in Fairfield, Connecticut is the oldest private songbird sanctuary in the United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Black Rock and Southport.
Black Rock
Photo: Markvs88, Public domain.
Black Rock is a neighborhood in the southwestern section of the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut. It borders Fairfield and the Ash Creek tidal estuary on the west, the West Side/West End of Bridgeport on the north and east, and Black Rock Harbor and Long Island Sound on the south.
Southport
Village
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Southport is a census-designated place in the town of Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. It is located along Long Island Sound between Mill River and Sasco Brook, where it borders Westport.
Little Danbury
Hamlet
Little Danbury was a beachfront settlement on Long Island Sound in what is today southeast Fairfield.
Fairfield
Latitude
41.1412° or 41° 8′ 28″ northLongitude
-73.2637° or 73° 15′ 49″ westPopulation
57,800Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)United Nations Location Code
US FFIOpen location code
87H84PRP+FGOpenStreetMap ID
node 158814151OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Fairfield” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فيرفيلد”
- Armenian: “Ֆերֆիլդ”
- Azerbaijani: “Ferfild”
- Balinese: “County Fairfield, Connecticut”
- Balinese: “County Fairfield”
- Basque: “Fairfield”
- Bavarian: “Fairfield, Connecticut”
- Bavarian: “Fairfield”
- Bulgarian: “Феърфийлд”
- Bulgarian: “Феърфилд”
- Catalan: “Fairfield”
- Cebuano: “Fairfield”
- Chechen: “Ферфилд”
- Chinese: “Fairfield”
- Chinese: “費爾菲爾德”
- Chinese: “费尔菲尔德”
- Czech: “Fairfield”
- Danish: “Fairfield”
- Dutch: “Fairfield”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيرفيلد”
- French: “Fairfield”
- German: “Fairfield”
- Greek: “Φέρφιλντ”
- Haitian: “Fairfield, Connecticut”
- Haitian: “Fairfield”
- Hebrew: “פיירפילד (קונטיקט)”
- Hebrew: “פיירפילד, קונטיקט”
- Hebrew: “פיירפילד”
- Hungarian: “Fairfield”
- Irish: “Fairfield”
- Italian: “Fairfield”
- Japanese: “コネチカット州”
- Japanese: “フェアフィールド”
- Kazakh: “Faýrfïld”
- Kazakh: “Файрфилд”
- Kazakh: “فايرفىيلد”
- Kirghiz: “Файрфилд”
- Korean: “페어필드”
- Mazanderani: “فیرفیلد”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fairfield”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fairfield”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fairfield”
- Norwegian: “Fairfield”
- Persian: “فیرفیلد، کنتیکت”
- Persian: “فیرفیلد”
- Polish: “Fairfield”
- Portuguese: “Fairfield”
- Romanian: “Fairfield, Connecticut”
- Romanian: “Fairfield”
- Russian: “Феърфилд”
- Russian: “Фэрфилд”
- Serbian: “Ферфилд”
- Slovak: “Fairfield”
- Slovenian: “Fairfield, Connecticut”
- Slovenian: “Fairfield”
- South Azerbaijani: “فایرفیلد، کانتیکت”
- Spanish: “Fairfield, Connecticut”
- Spanish: “Fairfield”
- Swahili: “Fairfield, Connecticut”
- Swahili: “Fairfield”
- Swedish: “Fairfield, Connecticut”
- Swedish: “Fairfield”
- Talysh: “Ferfild”
- Tatar: “Ферфилд”
- Turkish: “Fairfield, Connecticut”
- Turkish: “Fairfield”
- Ukrainian: “Фейрфілд”
- Ukrainian: “Ферфілд”
- Urdu: “فیئرفیلڈ، کونیکٹیکٹ”
- Uzbek: “Fairfield”
- Uzbek: “Фаирфиелд”
- Vietnamese: “Fairfield, Connecticut”
- Vietnamese: “Fairfield”
- Volapük: “Fairfield”
- Welsh: “Fairfield, Connecticut”
- Welsh: “Fairfield”
- “Fairfield”
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