Editing Farmington, Connecticut (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Ct rattle west.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Rattlesnake Mountain]]
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{convert|74.5|km2|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|72.6|km2|order=flip}} is land and {{convert|2.0|km2|order=flip}}, or 2.65%, is water.<ref name="Census 2010">{{Cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/0600000US0900327600| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212144550/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/0600000US0900327600| url-status=dead| archive-date=February 12, 2020| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Farmington town, Hartford County, Connecticut| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| access-date=November 26, 2012}}</ref>

After its founding, Farmington gave up territory to form [[Southington, Connecticut|Southington]] (1779), [[Bristol, Connecticut|Bristol]] (1785), [[Avon, Connecticut|Avon]] (1830), [[Plainville, Connecticut|Plainville]] (1869), and parts of [[Berlin, Connecticut|Berlin]] (1785) and [[Bloomfield, Connecticut|Bloomfield]] (1835).<ref>Barry, Ann P. “Connecticut Towns and Their Establishment.”  Hartford, CT:  Connecticut State Library, Archives, History, and Genealogy Unit, 1985.</ref>  Farmington presently borders the towns of [[Avon, Connecticut|Avon]], [[Burlington, Connecticut|Burlington]], [[Newington, Connecticut|Newington]], [[West Hartford, Connecticut|West Hartford]], and [[Plainville, Connecticut|Plainville]], and the cities of [[New Britain, Connecticut|New Britain]] and [[Bristol, Connecticut|Bristol]].

Farmington is mostly wooded, but there are also meadows and hills in the east and southeast. There are also numerous ponds and lakes. The [[Farmington River]] runs through the town from the northwest from Burlington, enters Unionville, then takes a sharp turn near Farmington Center and flows north towards Avon. The [[Metacomet Ridge]], a {{convert|100|mi|km|adj=on}} range of low [[basalt|traprock]] mountain ridges, occupies the east side of Farmington as [[Pinnacle Rock (Connecticut)|Pinnacle Rock]], [[Rattlesnake Mountain (Connecticut)|Rattlesnake Mountain]], [[Farmington Mountain]], and [[Talcott Mountain]].