page_title: Suffield, Connecticut
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Suffield, Connecticut / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: West Suffield Mountain. Connecticut. By Paul Gagnon
context_page_description: Suffield is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It was once within the boundaries of Massachusetts. The town is located in the Connecticut River Valley with the town of Enfield neighboring to the east. In 1900, 3,521 people lived in Suffield; as of the 2010 census, the population was 15,735. The town center is a census-designated place listed as Suffield Depot in U.S. Census records.
  Bordering Massachusetts, Suffield is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts NECTA. Suffield is only 8 miles from Springfield, and is more oriented toward it than toward Connecticut's capital of Hartford, which lies 16 miles to the south.
context_section_description: According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 42.9 square miles (111.2 km²), of which 42.3 square miles (109.5 km²) is land and 0.69 square miles (1.8 km²), or 1.58%, is water. The town center (Suffield Depot CDP) has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.1 km²), all of it land.
  Suffield is on the west bank of the Connecticut River, 8 miles (13 km) south of the river's largest city, Springfield, Massachusetts, and 16 miles (26 km) north of Connecticut's capital, Hartford. Two bridges span the river to the town of Enfield: the Amtrak/Springfield Terminal Railroad Bridge and the Enfield–Suffield Veterans Bridge.
  The Metacomet Ridge, a mountainous trap rock ridgeline that stretches from Long Island Sound to nearly the Vermont border, runs through the center of Suffield from south to north as West Suffield Mountain. The 51-mile (82 km) Metacomet Trail traverses the ridge.
caption: West Suffield Mountain
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