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Natural
Resources Inventory for the Town of Branford |
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APPENDIX
IV
RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE
SCHOOLS
School |
Facilities |
Acreage |
Mary T.
Murphy |
play area,
baseball field, mini basketball court |
3.5 |
Pine Orchard
|
playground,
basketball court |
10 |
Mary Tisko |
playground,
basketball court, nature trail |
7 |
Indian
Neck |
play area,
basketball court |
8 |
Short
Beach |
playground,
baseball field, basketball court |
3 |
Branford
Hills |
playground,
baseball field, basketball court |
4 |
Walsh
Intermediate |
playground,
baseball fields (2), indoor basketball court, soccer field,
lighted tennis court (3), running track, indoor pool |
17 |
John B.
Sliney |
indoor
basketball court |
---- |
Senior
High |
football
field, baseball field (2), tennis courts (2), basketball court |
28 |
TOWN
PARKS*
Park |
Facilities |
Acreage |
Firemen's
Field |
open field |
3.67 |
Stony
Creek Park |
playground,
baseball field, basketball court |
0.76 |
Stony
Creek Buddy League |
baseball
field |
4.5 |
Stony
Creek Beach |
beach,
picnic area |
0.93 |
Stony
Creek Dock |
boat facilities |
---- |
Stony
Creek Community Center |
meeting
room |
---- |
Parker
Memorial Park |
play area,
picnic area, public beach, fishing pier |
11.7 |
Hammer
Field |
tot lot,
play area, baseball field, softball fields (3), lighted basketball
court, picnic area, soccer fields |
10.0 |
Community
House |
indoor
basketball court, game room, meeting rooms |
Town Green |
various
uses |
7.0 |
Lanphier's
Cove |
public
beach |
1.0 |
Pages
Cove (Short Beach) |
public
beach |
0.1 |
Canoe
Brook Senior Center |
meeting
rooms |
---- |
Sliney
Field |
baseball
fields (4), soccer field |
2.26 |
Young's
Pond |
soft ball
field, dog run |
48.57 |
Veteran's
Memorial Park |
baseball
field, softball fields (2), tennis courts (4), basketball court,
play area, lavatory building |
61.3 |
Ridge
Acres (Flax Mill) |
soccer
field |
8.83 |
*Compiled
by Branford Planning and Zoning Department
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TOWN OPEN SPACE* |
Location |
Facilities/Land-use |
Acreage |
Supply Ponds |
picnic area, hiking,
nature trails, summer day camp, canoeing, skating, fishing |
339.53 |
Stony Creek/Pleasant
Pt. |
trolley trail, tidal
wetlands |
37.1 |
Stony Creek Quarry |
natural area, passive
recreation |
451.25 |
Lion's Park (Burban
Drive) |
-- |
1.0 |
Pisgah Brook |
-- |
259.1 |
Valley Brook Road
South |
-- |
0.2 |
Red Hill Estates |
-- |
2.24 |
O'Neill La. |
-- |
1.7 |
12 Katie-Joe La. |
access to BLT Short
Beach Preserve |
0.1 |
Red Hill Road |
-- |
6.5 |
Weeping Hemlock at
Kelly Crest |
-- |
0.35 |
Short Beach Road Detention
Pond |
-- |
2.4 |
Ward's Mill Pond |
-- |
10.0 |
Red Rock Road |
-- |
19.4 |
11 Pawson Landing
Drive |
-- |
0.33 |
Pine Orchard Road |
-- |
1.07 |
Oak Hollow Road |
-- |
1.62 |
25 Blackstone Avenue |
-- |
0.74 |
Club Parkway |
-- |
0.5 |
18 Crestwood Road |
-- |
0.79 |
271-305 Northford
Road |
-- |
1.93 |
High Plains Road |
-- |
0.93 |
Goodsell Point Road |
-- |
0.4 |
30 Flat Rock Road |
-- |
1.32 |
83 Laurel Hill Road |
-- |
1.8 |
Tabor Drive |
-- |
17.65 |
Fair Lawn Avenue |
-- |
4.85 |
Eastwood Drive |
-- |
1.7 |
Pepperwood La. |
-- |
2.85 |
74 Lantern View Drive |
-- |
2.9 |
34 Piscitello Drive |
-- |
0.67 |
Queach Road |
-- |
4.2 |
Birch Road |
-- |
5.92 |
Aceto Street |
-- |
0.42 |
30 Richhill Road |
-- |
0.94 |
*unless otherwise noted,
land use is passive recreation, Compiled by Branford Planning and Zoning Department
QUASI-PUBLIC
FACILITIES
Park |
Facilities |
Acreage |
Foote
Memorial Park |
tennis
courts (8 – hard; 4 – clay), baseball fields (3), lighted (1) and unlit
(1) basketball courts, lighted paddle tennis courts (4), volleyball court,
horseshoe pits (4), play area, picnic area, scenic overlook, amphitheater,
shelter, lavatory building |
38.6 |
Foote Riverside Park |
scenic overlook, passive
recreation |
2.0 |
Branford Little League |
baseball field |
5.0 |
Ecclesiastical Society
|
passive recreation |
47.66 |
Killam's Point |
passive recreation |
0.3 |
Branford Electric
Railroad Assoc. |
train rides |
51.3 |
STATE
OF CONNECTICUT
Parcel |
Acreage |
North Branford Road |
47.3 |
Democrat Island |
0.95 |
30 Goodsell Point
Road (boat launch) |
3.4 |
East Main Street (Fisheries
& Game) |
26.18 |
Rose Hill Road tidal
wetlands |
18.94 |
Pawson Road tidal
wetlands |
20+ |
Pleasant Point tidal
wetlands |
33.0 |
Beacon Hill |
74.4 |
US
GOVERNMENT
Parcel |
Acreage |
Stewart B. McKinney
National Wildlife Refuge (Outer Island) |
2.2 |
YALE
UNIVERSITY
Parcel |
Acreage |
Linsley Pond |
7.1 |
Leetes Island Road |
44.05 |
Horse Island |
48.5 |
Lidyhites Pond |
48.5 |
SOUTH
CENTRAL REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY
Parcel |
Acreage |
SUPPLY POND WATERSHED |
-- |
Laurel Hill Road |
4.0 |
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SALTONSTALL WATERSHED |
-- |
between reservoir
& Hosley Avenue |
593.5 |
under reservoir &
Hosley Avenue |
204.0 |
east of Hosley Avenue |
9.40 |
bounded by Hosley
Avenue & Cherry Hill Road |
227.4 |
south of I-95, bounded
west by Furnace Avenue |
37.50 |
south of I-95, bounded
west by Hosley Avenue |
11.30 |
between I-95, Branford
Connector & R.R. |
50.90 |
isolated parcel |
1.30 |
Furnace Pond |
19.10 |
south of Route 1 |
2.0 |
Cherry Hill Road (pumping
station) |
0.36 |
TOTAL HOLDINGS (Dec
31, 2001) |
1160.76 |
BRANFORD
LAND TRUST
parcel |
Notes |
Acreage |
SHORT BEACH/BRANFORD
HILL/ BRANHAVEN |
-- |
-- |
Lower Farm River watershed |
-- |
-- |
Minore |
-- |
19.5 |
Branford/Spicebush
Terrrace |
-- |
1.2 |
Short Beach Preserve |
-- |
-- |
Foote/Prann/Ertelt |
-- |
35.0 |
Prout |
-- |
4.3 |
Jennifer Heights |
-- |
6.0 |
Pantani |
-- |
2.1 |
Isolated parcels |
-- |
-- |
Peterson/Kidd's Cave |
-- |
0.48 |
Peterson/Stone Street |
-- |
0.31 |
LAKE SALTONSTALL WATERSHED |
-- |
-- |
Seeberg |
-- |
3.3 |
MILL CREEK WATERSHED |
-- |
-- |
Upper Mill Creek |
-- |
-- |
Hammer |
-- |
23.8 |
Hammer Lea |
-- |
2.68 |
Lower Mill Creek |
Disturbed tidal marsh
|
-- |
Dingus |
-- |
2.7 |
Lindberg |
-- |
7.8 |
Simpson |
-- |
0.34 |
Morawski |
-- |
1.24 |
PISGAH BROOK/SUPPLY
PONDS NATURAL AREA |
-- |
-- |
Town of Branford –
Laurel Hill Road |
-- |
2.2 |
Ifkovic |
-- |
10.2 |
MAIN STEM OF BRANFORD
RIVER |
Nearly all salt marsh |
-- |
Towner |
-- |
2.75 |
Sturgess II |
-- |
6.7 |
Beach |
-- |
1.8 |
Congregational Church/Town
Meadow |
-- |
-- |
Sturgess III, IV |
-- |
< 5.1 |
Prann-Ertelt |
-- |
1.5 |
Field |
-- |
3.0 +/- |
Foote I |
-- |
5.07 |
Foote II |
Total for Foote I
|
-- |
-- |
& Foote II |
-- |
Sliney I |
5.5 |
-- |
Foote IV (Jenny Lind) |
2.2 |
-- |
UNNAMED BRANFORD RIVER
TRIBUTARIES (from North to South) | -- | -- |
Brook draining by
Intermediate School and I-95 Exit 55 |
-- |
-- |
Buza |
-- |
9.7 |
Soffer |
-- |
0.95 |
Brook draining from
Tisco School |
-- |
-- |
Reynolds (Tisco) |
-- |
24.0 |
Reynolds |
-- |
9.8 |
Smith |
-- |
4.0 |
Russo |
-- |
1.8 |
SYBIL CREEK |
-- |
-- |
East of Route 146 |
-- | -- |
Gustafson |
includes some upland |
3.3 |
Foote/Waverly (three
parcels) |
includes some upland
|
33.4 |
Stratton |
-- |
1.5 |
Foote/Sybil |
-- |
23.5 |
Newton-Crelin |
half upland |
8.1 |
West of Route 146 |
-- | -- |
Tagliatela |
(two parcels; marsh) |
13.6 |
Tagliatela |
(5-upland; 15-marsh) |
20 +/- |
Meffert (part) |
-- |
15 |
PAWSON PARK MARSHES |
-- |
-- |
Ecclesiastical Society |
-- |
16.7 |
Meffert (part) |
-- | -- |
OTHER INDIAN NECK
MARSHES |
-- |
-- |
Foote/Summer Island |
-- |
< 1.0 |
Hadley |
-- |
1.0 |
Congregational Church/Summer
Island |
-- |
0.7 |
MILL PLAIN/NORTHFORD
ROAD TO NORTH BRANFORD ROAD |
-- |
-- |
Bontatibus |
-- |
6.5 |
Benchmark |
-- |
4.3 |
Munger Brook (Sachs)
|
-- |
2.92 |
SHELDON CREEK (WORLDS
END CR.) ASSEMBLAGE (Primarily wetlands and pond) |
-- | -- |
Young (Griffing Pond) |
-- |
3.0 +/- |
Nickou |
-- |
2.5 |
Hayden |
-- |
3.78 |
Young (Young's Pond
North) |
-- |
12.8 |
GOSS/VEDDER ASSEMBLAGE
(TROLLEY PATH/LONG MARSH CREEK) |
-- |
-- |
Vedder |
(3 parcels) |
27.2 |
Berdon |
-- |
0.25 |
Goss |
(2 parcels) |
5.05 |
TRAP ROCK RAILROAD/PEPPERWOOD
AREA |
-- |
-- |
North end (Branford
River watershed) |
-- |
-- |
Town of Branford –
Gould Lane |
-- |
2.7 |
Anderson-Wilcox North |
-- |
0.9 |
Beechwood |
-- |
6.3 |
South end (Pine Creek
watershed) |
-- |
-- |
Anderson-Wilcox West |
-- |
7.86 |
Anderson-Wilcox East |
-- |
1.09 |
Collins |
-- |
7.53 |
LOWER PINE CREEK WATERSHED
|
(Stony Creek Road
to Leetes Island Road) | -- |
DuPont |
-- |
2.5 |
Lowe (easement) |
-- |
0.3 |
Anderson |
-- |
3.92 |
Wies |
-- |
11 |
VAN WIE ASSEMBLAGE
|
-- |
-- |
Rose Van Wie I |
-- |
27.3 |
Rose Van Wie II |
-- |
19.6 |
W. & A. Van Wie I |
-- |
8.8 |
W. & A. Van Wie II |
-- |
15.4 |
W. & A. Van Wie III |
-- |
9.9 |
W. & A. Van Wie IV |
-- |
17.3 |
Town of Branford II
(three parcels) |
-- |
5.6 |
Sullivan/Pantani |
-- |
1.48 |
Brooks R. Kelley Memorial
Woods |
-- |
30.3 |
Sullivan/Red Hill
Road |
-- |
2.99 |
FLAT ROCK/WHITEWOOD
|
-- |
-- |
Sullivan-Lyons |
-- |
3.8 |
Dumais |
-- |
7.0 +/- |
Sullivan/Ash Creek
Road |
-- |
1.9 |
JARVIS CREEK/STONY
CREEK |
-- | -- |
Between Leetes Island
Road and Amtrak line | -- | -- |
Powers |
-- |
0.9 |
Palmer-Welles (four
parcels) |
-- |
4.1 |
Rose |
-- |
0.7+ |
South of Amtrak line |
-- |
-- |
Washburn |
-- |
17.8 |
Stony Creek Ltd. Partners |
-- |
9.0 |
HOADLEY CREEK PRESERVE |
-- |
-- |
Medlyn (w/ Town of
Branford) |
-- |
48 |
Pinchot (w/ Guilford
LCT ) |
-- |
47 |
ISOLATED SMALL PARCELS |
-- |
-- |
Sturgess I |
-- |
0.28 |
Welsh |
-- |
1.81 |
Mattern |
-- |
2.53 |
Ransome |
-- |
0.67 |
Hentschel |
-- |
2.0 +/- |
Land Trust House |
26 School Street |
0.31 |
MARITIME POSSESSIONS |
-- |
-- |
Thimble Islands |
(Marine Is., Bernais
Reef, Commander Rocks) |
-- |
Childers |
-- |
-- |
Thoms (Northford Rock) |
-- |
-- |
Indian Neck |
-- |
-- |
Foote |
-- |
-- |
Short Beach/Killam's
Point |
-- |
-- |
Murphy (Green Island) |
-- |
1.0 |
Davis (Umbrella Islands) |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
TOTAL HOLDINGS (March
31, 2003) |
-- |
770 + |
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