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Botsford Connecticut Map

Explore Botsford, Connecticut, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Botsford, Connecticut

How to Use This Botsford, Connecticut Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Botsford, Connecticut. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Connecticut or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Botsford.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Botsford
State	Connecticut (CT)
County	Fairfield County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	41.358776
Longitude	-73.267159
Population	499
Density	237.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	06470
Area Code	203, 475, 860, 959
County Seat	Bridgeport
School District	Newtown School District

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About Botsford, Connecticut

Botsford is a locality in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is a small community with a population of 499. The population density is 237.0 people per km². Botsford is located at 41.3588°N, 73.2672°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 06470.

Botsford emerges from the inland landscape as a quiet assembly of wooded rises and shadowed hollows, defined primarily by the persistent, rhythmic flow of Cold Spring Brook. It lies 8.8 miles north-northwest of Trumbull Center, CT (from Trumbull Center, CT: bearing 340°T), and is situated 9.2 miles west-northwest of Shelton. High Rock Hill casts a long, angular silhouette over the terrain, anchoring a vista where the earth seems perpetually preoccupied with the slow, deliberate growth of second-growth timber. Beyond the immediate canopy, the land yields to the tranquil waters of Smith Pond, which holds the reflected light of the sky in a stillness rarely disturbed by the modern pace. The air here carries a crisp, earthen weight, smelling of damp soil and ancient stone, especially where crumbling walls of fieldstone mark the boundaries of pastures long since surrendered to the encroaching thickets.

Botsford retains the character of a place that once served as a vital junction for inland commerce, its economy having shifted from the early necessity of agrarian labor to the quietude of a residential enclave. Traces of a more industrious era remain in the architecture that dots the landscape, where the sturdy, unadorned lines of early structures speak to a history forged in the practicalities of the interior corridor. Nearby, the Kelda Property provides a sanctuary of protected wilderness, preserving the integrity of the local ecosystem against the quiet expansion of daily life. The rhythm of Botsford is governed not by the rush of industry, but by the subtle passage of seasons across its rolling, interior topography, maintaining a deliberate distance from the frenetic energy found closer to the distant, unseen shoreline.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Kelda Property (Waterfowl Production Area) — 0.5 mi, 111° E
Lanes Mine Nature Park (Local Park) — 1.6 mi, 114° SE
Hattertown Pond (Conservation Area) — 2.0 mi, 237° SW
Wamer Pond Access (State Recreation Area) — 2.2 mi, 033° NE
Wolfe Park (Local Park) — 2.5 mi, 161° S
Wamer Pond Water Access (State Recreation Area) — 2.9 mi, 027° NE
Cullens (Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 291° W
Everwonder Childrens Museum (Museum) — 3.4 mi, 334° NW
Paugussett State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 4.3 mi, 038° NE
Candle wall (Monument) — 4.4 mi, 354° N
Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Monument) — 4.6 mi, 331° NW
Tonka Truck Tree (Public Artwork) — 4.9 mi, 223° SW
Lake Zoar Wildlife Area (Nature Reserve) — 5.1 mi, 017° N
Kettletown State Park (State Park) — 5.3 mi, 036° NE
Dynamite Storage Tunnel (Attraction) — 5.3 mi, 157° SE
Charcoal Hearth Site (Historic Ruins) — 5.4 mi, 040° NE
Prospect Hill (State Park) — 5.7 mi, 259° W
Pequonnock Valley Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.9 mi, 158° S
Memorial Monument (Monument) — 6.2 mi, 257° W
Officer's Quarters (Historic Ruins) — 6.2 mi, 260° W
Redding Historical Society (Museum) — 7.0 mi, 242° SW
3-town Marker (Attraction) — 7.8 mi, 222° SW
Bethel Cinema (Cinema) — 8.1 mi, 278° W
Centennial Watershed State Forest (Nature Reserve) — 8.2 mi, 219° SW
Millstone (Attraction) — 8.6 mi, 038° NE
Southbury Playhouse (Theatre) — 8.7 mi, 017° N
Osborne Homestead Museum (Museum) — 8.8 mi, 103° E
Brookfield Theatre for the Arts (Theatre) — 10.0 mi, 320° NW
Seymour Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 10.0 mi, 076° E
Stewart B. Mckinney National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.5 mi, 158° S · 3,061 acres

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