Bethel (CDP), Connecticut
Bethel is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It comprises the primary village and surrounding residential land within the town of Bethel. As of the 2010 census, the population of the CDP was 9,549, out of 18,584 in the entire town. Geography The Bethel CDP is in the western part of the town of Bethel, and is bordered to the west by the city of Danbury. The CDP extends north to East Swamp Brook and east to Wolf Pit Brook. The southern border of the CDP follows (from east to west) parts of Putnam Park Road, Hoyts Hill, Governors Lane, Whippoorwill Road, Winthrop Road, Spring Hill Lane, Whippoorwill Road again, Chestnut Ridge Road, Nashville Road Exd, Nashville Road, Turkey Plain Road, Grassy Plain Street, 2nd Lane, Francis J Clarke Circle and an unnamed brook back to the Danbury border. Connecticut Route 53 passes through the west side of the community, leading north into downtown Danbury and south to Weston. Connecticut Route 302 runs east–west through the center of town, following Greenwood Avenue and part of Milwaukee Avenue. It continues east to Newtown. Connecticut Route 58 has its northern terminus at Route 302 in the eastern part