Connecticut abolished their 8 old counties in the 1960s, but the US Census kept using them for statistical purposes until 2022 when, at the state's request, they were replaced with 9 planning regions. Instead the "towns" (WOF localadmin) are actual admin units.

We should end-of-life (deprecate) the old county features in CT and import 9 new county features, including population values and concordances.

Open question: Should the old records and the new records both be marked as statistical gores? Should this be done in other New England states, too? Probably yes for Rhode Island but complicated for the other states...

See more:

• https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/06/06/2022-12063/change-to-county-equivalents-in-the-state-of-connecticut