Map of Southbury, Connecticut in 2026

If you grew up in Southbury, or you’ve ever driven Main Street North past the Bullet Hill School, you’ll find your town on this map just as it stands in 2026. Look for your road. Main Street North, Southford Road, Kettletown Road, Old Waterbury Road, Waterbury Road, Roxbury Road, Community House Road, Fish Rock Road, Hulls Hill Road, Dublin Road, Heritage Road and Peter Road are all printed by name, along with many more.

Southbury is in New Haven County, with Woodbury and Roxbury to the north and Oxford to the east.

KNOWOL made this map in 2026 from public survey data, and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded hills, from the Pomperaug valley out to Southford in the east and down to Lake Zoar, come from United States Geological Survey elevation data. The streets and the town line come from the Census Bureau, right down to roads like River Road. Southbury, South Britain and Southford are printed by name. A guide of 34 numbered landmarks runs along the bottom, with the National Register sites marked, and we checked those against National Park Service records.

The One and Only Southbury

Southbury was one of several towns made from land bought from the Pootatuck people, and it began as part of Woodbury, which was settled in 1673. Its own meetinghouse went up in 1733, and the town was incorporated in 1787. That’s the year on the title panel: Incorporated 1787. It’s the only community in the country called Southbury, and the town seal says so in Latin: Unica Unaque, “The One and Only.”

In the 1800s the Pomperaug and Housatonic Rivers powered Southbury’s mills, tanneries and distilleries, until many of those businesses moved to Waterbury. The town stayed mostly farms until Interstate 84 came through in the early 1960s. Heritage Village opened in 1967 on 1,000 acres, and today it’s a community of more than 5,000 people. In 1937, when residents learned that the German American Bund had bought land here for a training camp, they called a town meeting and passed a zoning rule against military activity other than the United States Army, and the Bund gave up and sold the land. Click here to learn more about the history of Southbury.

Main Street North

The town’s old center runs along Main Street North, and the guide marks it as the Southbury Historic District No. 1 (31). It stretches about two miles, from Old Waterbury Road north to the Woodbury line, a road of widely spaced houses, old town buildings and a church, with stone walls along the way. Most of the buildings went up in the 1700s and 1800s, and the street was laid out in the 1600s, when this was still Woodbury. It was listed on the National Register in 1971.

At the south end of the district is the Bullet Hill School (2), a brick schoolhouse of the late 1700s with a square belfry on its hip roof. It’s one of the oldest brick school buildings in Connecticut. Classes met on the ground floor and the second floor was a meeting room, and it was a school until 1942, when the town decided to keep it as a historical monument. The United Church of Christ Southbury (32) is right beside it, and the Jewish Federation of Western Connecticut (33) is a little to the north.

A little to the south are the Southbury Public Library (24) and the Southbury Playhouse (20), side by side, with Gainfield Elementary School (26) and the Gainfield Farms Golf Course (10) next to them. Farther south is a second cluster, around Southbury Town Hall (5): the Southbury Senior Center (8), the Southbury Volunteer Firemen’s Association (17), Rochambeau Middle School (25) and Pomperaug Elementary School (28). Riverview Cinemas is here too, and the guide prints it twice, as (1) and (18). Sacred Heart Church (19) is a little to the southwest. To the north are the Heritage Village Meeting House (29) and the Pomperaug Golf Club (21).

South Britain

West of the center, on the Pomperaug River, is the village of South Britain. In the 1700s it grew up as a mill village serving the farms around it, and for a time it rivaled the town center. A dam has stood on the river here since the 1700s, and the foundations of old mills line both banks, with a power canal of the 1800s running off the river. The Federal-style South Britain Congregational Church of 1825 and a Greek Revival Methodist church of 1832 stand at Flat Hill Road. The village got its own Italianate town hall in 1873, and it was the seat of town government until 1964. The South Britain Historic District was listed on the National Register in 1987, and the guide marks the South Britain Library (3) and the Old Town Hall Museum (7) side by side in the village.

Southwest of the village is the Bent of the River Audubon Center (15), a 700-acre preserve along the Pomperaug with about 15 miles of trails. Althea Clark left the farm to the National Audubon Society, asking that it be kept in a state of “mild wildness,” with no trail blazes or signs. Farther west, on the eastern shore of Lake Lillinonah, is George C. Waldo State Park (9), named for George Curtis Waldo, chairman of the state Park and Forest Commission in the 1940s, and the Aldo Leopold Wildlife Management Area (16) is nearby.

Up in the northwest is the Southbury Training School (27), built in the 1930s as a state school for adults with intellectual disabilities. Its campus of brick Georgian and Colonial Revival buildings was finished in 1940 on Route 172 north of South Britain, with a large farm beside it. It’s on the National Register as a historic district, and its nomination places it in both Southbury and Roxbury, with farm land the school bought in 1937 on the Roxbury side.

The Russian Village

South of the center, on the hills above the Pomperaug, is the Russian Village Historic District, also called Churaevka. In the 1920s Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the novelist Leo Tolstoy, came here to visit a translator. The rolling hills reminded him of his Russian birthplace, so he bought land and built a small dacha, which still stands. His friend the writer George Grebenstchikoff bought more land and invited other Russian emigres, and visitors came, among them Sergei Rachmaninoff and Igor Sikorsky. The little St. Sergius Chapel was designed by Nicholas Roerich, and the cottages still have Russian touches on their entry hoods and dormers. It was listed on the National Register in 1988.

Southford and the East

In the east of town is Southford. The Hurley Road Historic District (12) is two farmsteads built by the Curtiss cousins, Jason in about 1820 and Japhet in about 1835, on land granted to their ancestor Israel Curtiss. The Sanford Road Historic District (13) is the farm of Ephraim Stiles, whose house dates to 1786, with the house of his son-in-law Benjamin Osborne across the road. The Larkin State Park Trail (6) runs between them on the bed of an old railroad that ran from 1881 to 1939. Dr. Charles L. Larkin bought a ten-mile stretch and gave it to the state as a riding trail. Pomperaug Regional High School (14) is in the northeast.

On Southford Road, southeast of the center, is the Aaron Bronson House (23), a Cape of about 1785 with a fine Federal interior. Aaron Bronson was a shoemaker and button maker. In the southeast, at 125 Quaker Farms Road, near Southford Falls State Park, is the Adin Wheeler House and Theodore F. Wheeler Wheelwright Shop (34). Adin Wheeler built the house around the 1790s and owned the mill on the falls, and his great-grandson Theodore built the wheelwright shop, which still has its brick forge, bellows and tools. In the south of town, on the eastern shore of Lake Zoar, is Kettletown State Park (4), shared with Oxford, with camping, hiking, picnicking and fishing. The guide also lists the Southbury Police Department (11), the Southbury Post Office (22) and Connecticut State Police Troop A (30).

This map of Southbury makes a handsome addition to a living room, office, library or den, and it can even help teach children the geography and history of the town. It’s a thoughtful gift for anyone who calls Southbury home, grew up here, or moved away. Created by KNOWOL in 2026, it’s printed on museum quality archival paper in three sizes. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Southbury map.

Sources

• Southbury, Connecticut, Wikipedia
• Heritage Village, Connecticut, Wikipedia
• Southbury Historic District No. 1, Wikipedia
• Southbury Historic District No. 1, National Register nomination, National Park Service
• Bullet Hill School, Wikipedia
• South Britain Historic District, Wikipedia
• Audubon Center at Bent of the River, Wikipedia
• George Waldo State Park, Wikipedia
• Southbury Training School, Wikipedia
• Southbury Training School, National Register nomination, National Park Service
• Russian Village Historic District, Wikipedia
• Hurley Road Historic District, Wikipedia
• Sanford Road Historic District, Wikipedia
• Larkin State Park Trail, Wikipedia
• Aaron Bronson House, Wikipedia
• Adin Wheeler House and Theodore F. Wheeler Wheelwright Shop, Wikipedia
• Kettletown State Park, Wikipedia