Editing Killingly, Connecticut

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{{Infobox settlement
| name                     = Killingly, Connecticut
| official_name            = Town of Killingly
| settlement_type          = [[New England town|Town]]
| image_skyline            = Killingly, Connecticut Town Hall.jpg
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| subdivision_type         = Country
| subdivision_name         = {{flag|United States}}
| subdivision_type1        = [[U.S. state]]
| subdivision_name1        = {{flag|Connecticut}}
| subdivision_type2        = [[County (United States)|County]]
| subdivision_name2        = [[Windham County, Connecticut|Windham]]
| subdivision_type3        = [[Councils of governments in Connecticut|Region]]
| subdivision_name3        = [[Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut|Northeastern CT]]
| established_title        = Incorporated
| established_date         = 1708
| government_type          = [[Council-manager]]
| leader_title             = Town manager
| leader_name              = Mary Calorio 
| leader_title1            = Council chairman
| leader_name1             = Jason W. Anderson 
|leader_title2            = Town Council
|leader_name2             = 
| leader_title3            = [[Connecticut Senate|State Senator]]
| unit_pref                = Imperial
| area_total_km2           = 129.5
| area_total_sq_mi         = 50.0
| area_land_km2            = 125.7
| area_land_sq_mi          = 48.5
| area_water_km2           = 3.8
| area_water_sq_mi         = 1.5
| elevation_m              = 137
| elevation_ft             = 449
| population_footnotes     = <ref name=2018est>{{Cite web|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?q=Killingly%20town,%20Windham%20County,%20Connecticut&g=0600000US0901540500&tid=ACSDP5Y2018.DP05|title=US Census Bureau Population Estimates|access-date=April 15, 2020}}</ref>
| population_total         = 17752
| population_as_of         = 2020
| population_density_km2   = 141.2
| population_density_sq_mi = 
| timezone                 = [[Eastern Time Zone|Eastern]]
| utc_offset               = -5
| timezone_DST             = Eastern
| utc_offset_DST           = -4
| postal_code_type         = ZIP code
| postal_code              = 06239, 06241, 06243
| area_code                = [[Area codes 860 and 959|860/959]]
| blank_name               = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
| blank_info               = 09-40500
| blank1_name              = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID
| blank1_info              = 0213447
| website                  = {{URL|https://www.killingly.org/}}
}}
{{US Census population
|1820= 2803
|1840= 3685
|1850= 4543
|1860= 4926
|1870= 5712
|1880= 6921
|1890= 7027
|1900= 6835
|1910= 6564
|1920= 8178
|1930= 8852
|1940= 9547
|1950= 10015
|1960= 11298
|1970= 13573
|1980= 14519
|1990= 15889
|2000= 16472
|2010= 17370
|2020= 17752
|footnote=US Decennial Census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
}}

'''Killingly''' is a [[New England town|town]] in [[Windham County, Connecticut|Windham County]], [[Connecticut]], United States. Killingly is the largest town by population in the [[Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut|Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region]]. The population was 17,752 at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=0600000US0901540500|title=Census - Geography Profile: Killingly town, Windham County, Connecticut|access-date=December 17, 2021}}</ref> It consists of the borough of [[Danielson, Connecticut|Danielson]] and the villages of Attawaugan, Ballouville, [[Dayville (CDP), Connecticut|Dayville]], East Killingly, Rogers, and South Killingly.

==History==
In 1653, [[John Winthrop the Younger|the second John Winthrop]], son of Massachusetts Bay Colony's founding governor, obtained a grant of land formerly held by the Quinebaug Indian tribe and known as the Quinebaug (Long Pond) Country. The name ''Quinebaug'' comes from the southern [[New England]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] term, spelled variously {{lang|nai|Qunnubbâgge}}, {{lang|nai|Quinibauge}}, etc., meaning "long pond", from {{lang|nai|qunni-}}, "long", and {{lang|nai|-paug}}, "pond".<ref>{{cite book|last=Bright|first=William|author-link=William Bright|title=Native American placenames of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5XfxzCm1qa4C&pg=PA405|access-date=April 14, 2011|year=2004|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-3598-4|page=405}}</ref>

The area in that grant, which is now occupied by Killingly, was first settled by English colonists in 1700. It was first called "Aspinock", a word which may have come from the combination of the [[Indigenous languages of the Americas|native term]] "aucks" or "ock" (the place of/where) and the name of the [[English people|English]] settler, Lieutenant Aspinwall. When the town was incorporated in May 1708, [[Gurdon Saltonstall|Colony Governor Saltonstall]] was asked to suggest a name. Saltonstall's ancestral manorial possessions lay in Killanslie and Pontefract, Yorkshire, hence he suggested “Kellingly” (the spelling was later altered).
[[File:Davis Park gazebo, Killingly, Connecticut.jpg|thumb|Davis Park]]

During the 1830s, Killingly was the state's largest producer of cotton goods, manufacturing textiles in mills from cotton shipped from the Deep South. By the 1930s, it was an important producer of window curtains.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.killinglyhistorical.org/museum/local-history-of-danielson|title=Local History|publisher=Killingly Historical and Genealogical Society|access-date=April 15, 2020}}</ref>

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{convert|50.0|sqmi|km2}}, of which {{convert|48.5|sqmi|km2}}  is land and {{convert|1.5|sqmi|km2}}  (2.94%) is water.

===Principal communities===
*Attawaugan
*Ballouville
*Chestnut Hill
*[[Danielson, Connecticut|Danielson]] (borough)
*[[Dayville (CDP), Connecticut|Dayville]]
*East Killingly
*Elmville
*Killingly Center
*Rogers
*South Killingly

==On the National Register of Historic Places==

* [[Broad Street – Davis Park Historic District]] – Roughly along Broad Street, from Dorrance Street to Winter Street (added 1998)
* [[Daniel's Village Archeological Site]] (added 1978)
* [[Danielson Main Street Historic District]] – Main Street from Water Street to Spring Street (added 1992), featuring Colonial Revival and Italianate architectural styles.
* [[Dayville Historic District]] – Main and Pleasant Streets (added 1988)
* [[Elliottville Lower Mill]] – Peep Toad Road (added 1982)
* [[Old Killingly High School]] – 185 Broad Street (added 1992)
* [[Temple Beth Israel (Danielson, Connecticut)|Temple Beth Israel]] – 39 Killingly Drive (added 2003)

==Demographics==

[[File:Danielson CT.jpg|thumb|[[Connecticut Route 12|Main St.]] in [[Danielson, Connecticut]]]]
{{See also|List of Connecticut locations by per capita income}}
As of the [[2010 United States Census]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=US Census Bureau|access-date=January 31, 2008|title=US Census website}}</ref> there were 17,370 people, 6,749 households, and 4,528 families in the town. The [[population density]] was 358.1/square mile (137.9/km{{sup|2}}). There were 7,592 housing units at an average density of 156.5/square mile (60.3/km{{sup|2}}). The racial makeup of the town was 93.1% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 1.5% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.4% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 1.8% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.7% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 2.4% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 3.0% of the population.

The borough of Danielson and the town of Killingly contain a small [[List of ethnic groups in Laos|Laotian community]]. Both are on the nation's list of top 50 cities with the highest percentage of citizens claiming Laotian ancestry.{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}}

Of the 6,749 households: 29.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.8% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 13.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.9% were non-families. 25.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 2.98.

The area population contained 22.4% under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 27.0% from 25 to 44, 28.5% from 45 to 64, and 13.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.7 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $55,598, and the median income for a family was $68,565. Males had a median income of $49,467 versus $35,429 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the town was $26,585. About 8.5% of families and 10.3% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 12.7% of those under age 18 and 6.1% of those age 65 or over.

{| class=wikitable
! colspan = 6 | Voter registration and party enrollment as of November 2022<ref>{{cite web |date=November 1, 2022 |title=Registration and Party Enrollment Statistics as of November 2022 |url=https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/SOTS/ElectionServices/Registration_and_Enrollment_Stats/Nov22RE.pdf |access-date=June 6, 2023 |website=State of Connecticut Office of the Secretary of the State |publisher=Connecticut Secretary of State }}</ref>
|-
! colspan = 2 | Party
! Active voters
! Inactive voters
! Total voters
! Percentage
|-
| {{party color cell|Democratic Party (United States)}}
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| align = center | 2,375
| align = center | 495
| align = center | 2,870
| align = center | 22.77%
|-
| {{party color cell|Republican Party (United States)}}
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| align = center | 2,529
| align = center | 400
| align = center | 2,929
| align = center | 23.24%
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent Party (United States)}}
| [[Independent voter|Unaffiliated]]
| align = center | 5,181
| align = center | 1352
| align = center | 6,533
| align = center | 51.84%
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent Party (United States)}}
| Minor parties
| align = center | 235
| align = center | 36
| align = center | 271
| align = center | 2.15%
|-
! colspan = 2 | Total
! align = center | 10,320
! align = center | 2283
! align = center | 12,603
! align = center | 100%
|}

{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="4" |Presidential Election Results<ref>{{Cite web|title=General Election Statements of Vote, 1922 – Current|url=https://authoring.ct.gov//SOTS/Election-Services/Statement-Of-Vote-PDFs/General-Elections-Statement-of-Vote-1922|access-date=June 22, 2023|website=CT Secretary of State}}</ref>
|-
!Year
![[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
![[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
![[Third party (United States)|Third Parties]]
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[2020 United States presidential election|2020]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|41.1% ''3,402''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''56.5%''' ''4,678''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|2.4% ''201''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[2016 United States presidential election|2016]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|36.2% ''2,491''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''57.0%''' ''3,916''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|6.8% ''467''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|[[2012 United States presidential election|2012]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''54.0%''' ''3,259''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|44.1% ''2,663''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|2.0% ''118''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|[[2008 United States presidential election|2008]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''55.2%''' ''3,629''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|42.8% ''2,815''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|1.9% ''127''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|[[2004 United States presidential election|2004]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''51.6%''' ''3,341''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|46.2% ''2,993''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|2.3% ''147''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|[[2000 United States presidential election|2000]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''56.0%''' ''3,178''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|37.9% ''2,151''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|6.0% ''342''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|[[1996 United States presidential election|1996]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''52.4%''' ''2,915''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|29.8% ''1,658''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|17.8% ''989''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1992 United States presidential election|1992]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|32.5% ''2,106''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''38.1%''' ''2,467''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|29.4% ''1,906''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1988 United States presidential election|1988]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|46.4% ''2,569''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''52.3%''' ''2,899''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|1.3% ''73''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1984 United States presidential election|1984]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|36.9% ''2,086''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''62.9%''' ''3,554''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|0.3% ''15''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1980 United States presidential election|1980]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|41.0% ''2,281''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''48.0%''' ''2,675''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|11.0% ''614''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|[[1976 United States presidential election|1976]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''54.7%''' ''3,077''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|44.8% ''2,521''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|0.6% ''31''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1972 United States presidential election|1972]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|41.2% ''2,271''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''57.0%''' ''3,140''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|1.7% ''96''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|[[1968 United States presidential election|1968]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''57.9%''' ''2,983''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|38.7% ''1,995''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|3.4% ''174''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|[[1964 United States presidential election|1964]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''76.3%''' ''4,016''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|23.7% ''1,245''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|0.0% ''0''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|[[1960 United States presidential election|1960]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''68.4%''' ''3,359''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|31.6% ''1,551''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|0.0% ''0''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1956 United States presidential election|1956]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|42.5% ''2,311''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''57.6%''' ''3,133''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|0.0% ''0''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1952 United States presidential election|1952]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|49.6% ''2,706''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''50.2%''' ''2,743''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|0.2% ''11''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|[[1948 United States presidential election|1948]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''56.3%''' ''2,779''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|43.0% ''2,120''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|0.8% ''37''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|[[1944 United States presidential election|1944]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''56.9%''' ''2,540''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|43.1% ''1,923''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|0.0% ''0''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|[[1940 United States presidential election|1940]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''55.8%''' ''2,538''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|44.2% ''2,007''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|0.0% ''0''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|[[1936 United States presidential election|1936]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''51.4%''' ''2,048''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|48.6% ''1,939''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|0.00% ''0''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|[[1932 United States presidential election|1932]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''53.0%''' ''1,762''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|47.0% ''1,563''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|0.0% ''0''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1928 United States presidential election|1928]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|46.1% ''1,334''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''53.8%''' ''1,557''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|0.2% ''6''
|-
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|[[1924 United States presidential election|1924]]
|align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|31.6% ''690''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''63.7%''' ''1,393''
|align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}}|4.8% ''104''
|}

==Transportation==
[[Danielson Airport]] is a state owned, public use [[airport]] located two&nbsp;[[nautical mile]]s (4&nbsp;[[kilometre|km]]) northwest of the [[central business district]] of [[Danielson, Connecticut|Danielson]], a [[borough (Connecticut)|borough]] in Killingly.<ref>{{FAA-airport|ID=LZD|use=PU|own=PU|site=02803.*A}}. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective May 31, 2012.</ref>

Bus service to the area is provided by the [[Northeastern Connecticut Transit District]].

==Notable people==

* [[Francis Alexander (painter)|Francis Alexander]] (1800–1881), born in Killingly, was a portrait painter<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896">{{cite book | title = Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896 | publisher = Marquis Who's Who | year = 1967}}</ref>
* [[Harriet Pritchard Arnold]] (1858–1901), writer
* [[Manasseh Cutler]] (1742–1823), US representative, soldier, minister, botanist, doctor, and scientist. He was educated at both Yale and Harvard Universities. He lobbied Congress to pass the [[Northwest Ordinance]] of 1787, helped establish the [[Ohio Company]], and worked to found [[Ohio University]]
* [[John M. Dowe]] (1896–1946), [[Connecticut State Comptroller]] (1941–1943, 1945–1946)
* [[Frederick Delmont Chesbrough]] (1859-1943), inventor of [[Warp Stop Motion]] for automated looms.
* [[William Torrey Harris]] (1835–1909), a philosopher who introduced reindeer to Alaska, educator (and later [[U.S. Commissioner of Education]]) who introduced the first permanent kindergarten, and lexicographer who introduced the "divided page" into dictionaries (the 1909 edition of ''Webster's New International Dictionary''). He was born in North Killingly. He also founded the first philosophical journal in the country
* [[Mary Dixon Kies]] (1752–1837), the first woman in the United States to receive a patent (in 1809, for a method of weaving straw with silk or thread). Kies was born and lived in South Killingly, an unincorporated village in the Town of Killingly
* [[Samuel Knight (judge)|Samuel Knight]] (1731–1804), chief justice of the [[Vermont Supreme Court]]<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Taft |first=Russell S. |date=January 1, 1894 |title=The Supreme Court of Vermont, Part II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zA6SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA30 |magazine=[[The Green Bag (1889–1914)|The Green Bag]] |location=Boston, MA |publisher=Boston Book Company |ref={{sfnRef|''The Green Bag''}}}}</ref>
* [[Charles Lewis Tiffany|Charles Tiffany]] (1812–1902) born in town, became the owner of Tiffany and Company 
* [[Ebenezer Young]] (1783–1851), a [[United States representative]] from Connecticut

==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://www.killingly.org/ Town government Web site]

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