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Hamden

town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
Place Town In The United States Q755271
Hamden
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Facts

15 properties

Identity

Instance of
town in the United States
Inception
1786[11]
Official website
www.hamden.com[14]
Official name
Hamden[17]

Location

Country
United States[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 41.398°, -72.922°, 🗺️ 41.396°, -72.897°[12][13]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
South Central Connecticut Planning Region, New Haven County[2][3]
Shares border with
Cheshire, New Haven[6][7]

Population and size

Area
+86.246604
Elevation above sea level
+56, +31[19][20]
Population
+60960, +61169[15][16]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 60,960 · 61,169 GeoNames 59,847 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Postal code
6.5k (6.5k–6.5k, n=3)[8][9][10]
More facts +3
Head of government
Lauren Garrett[5]
Number of households
+22157[18]
Per capita income
+38228
🏷️ Also known as
en Hamden, CT en Land of the Sleeping Giant en Hamden en Hamden, Connecticut ar هامدن el Χάμντεν es Hamden (Connecticut) he האמדן ja ハムデン ja ランド・オヴ・ザ・スリーピング・ジャイアント ja 眠れる巨人の土地 ko 햄든 ru Хамден uk Гамден zh 哈姆登 zh 哈姆登 (康涅狄格州)
🔖 Identifiers · 26
VIAF cluster ID
130196190
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n81082396
GND ID
4637810-8
ArchINFORM location ID
4079
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
14429453p
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/United_States/Connecticut/Localities/H/Hamden/
De Agostini ID
Hamden
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Hamden
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
09-35650
Freebase ID
/m/0rfdw
GNIS Feature ID
213440
GeoNames ID
4835654
Show all 26 identifiers +14
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7013683
Harper's tag
hamden
J9U entity ID
987007531807805171
MusicBrainz area ID
8fc0019a-1105-4be7-8f6f-e728e38bba0d
NL CR AUT ID
ge441051
OpenStreetMap relation ID
280676
Quora topic ID
Hamden-CT
RKD thesaurus ID
13806
SNARC ID
Martin Bambauer
Topic's main category
Category:Hamden, Connecticut
UN/LOCODE
USAEU
Who's on First ID
1126055653
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJf8vWtwTM3qk9fhXpXGHC
Yale LUX ID
place/0dec1001-5866-4da3-8ea8-9b0122e1b7d3

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🔗 Connections
People who died here 40
Thornton Wilder, Robert A. Dahl, Jaroslav Pelikan, Nathan Jacobson, George Mostow, Neal E. Miller, René Wellek, Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic +32 more
People born here 12
Ernest Borgnine, Alexis Holmes, Dana Terrace, Donald Hall, John Carpenter, Chester D. Hubbard, Jennifer Barnhart, Carlton R. Sickles +4 more
Residents 4
Jaroslav Pelikan, Steven Novella, C. Vann Woodward, Debra Hamel
Contained subdivisions 2
Quinnipiac University, Hamden Journal
Shares border with 2
New Haven, Cheshire
← Headquarters location 2
Quinnipiac University, New England Skeptical Society
← Shares border with 2
New Haven, Cheshire
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Hamden, Connecticut
Country 1
United States
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
New Haven County
Located in this place 1
Sleeping Giant
SNARC ID 1
Martin Bambauer
Topic's main category 1
Category:Hamden, Connecticut
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Hamden, Connecticut
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Hamden, Connecticut
← Place of publication 1
Hamden Journal
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Summary

Hamden is a town in the United States[1].

Related Entities

Ernest Borgnine Robert A. Dahl Thornton Wilder United States

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → hamden
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: hamden, Matched to hamden (#289935072) in Harper's tag #mix'n'mat"
  2. 25w ago · Horcrux · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → —
    Area → 86.246604
    Number of households → 22,157
    Topic's main category → Category:Hamden, Connecticut
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Added qualifier: Subject named as: Hamden, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1779096159559"
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