Addison (Vermont)

Addison
Four Corners : 1817 Baptist Church and Town Hall
Location in Vermont
Addison
Basic data
Foundation :	October 14, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Addison County
Coordinates :	44 ° 4 ′  N , 73 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 4 ′  N , 73 ° 20 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,371 (as of 2010)
Population density :	12.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	126.7 km 2  (approx. 49 mi 2 ) of which 107.6 km 2  (approx. 42 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	32 m
Postal code :	05491
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-00325
GNIS ID :	1462023
The new Lake Champlain Bridge (opened 2011)

Addison is a town in Addison County of the state of Vermont in the United States with a population of 1,371 (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Addison is on the east bank of Lake Champlain on the border with New York State. A road connection, the Lake Champlain Bridge , leads to the headland Crown Point via a narrow lake spur that forms the state border to the west between Vermont and New York . The Otter Creek flows in the north along the north-eastern border of the Town. The surface is rather flat, in the east lies the 392 m high Snake Mountain .

Neighboring communities

All information as air lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.

• North: Panton , 2.5 km
• Northeast: Waltham , 7.2 mi
• East: Weybridge , 7.6 miles
• South East: Cornwall , 8.1 mi
• South: Bridport , 1.5 miles
• Southwest: Ticonderoga, New York , 15 mi
• West: Crown Point, New York , 17.1 mi
• Northwest: Moriah, New York , 14.3 mi

City structure

There are three settlement centers in the town: West Addison on the shores of Lake Champlain, Chimney Point at the entrance to the bridge, and Addison Four Corners at the intersection of Vermont State Route 17 and Vermont State Route 22A .

climate

The mean average temperature in Addison ranges from −8.5 ° C (17 ° Fahrenheit ) in February to 21 ° C (70 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. The snowfall between October and March is up to six meters, about twice as high as the average snow depth in the USA, the daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range of values ​​in the USA.

history

The town was proclaimed for settlement on October 14, 1761 by Benning Wentworth as part of the New Hampshire Grants with an area of ​​28,800 acres (about 116.5 km²), but had already been settled by the French in 1731 with a fort at Chimney Point, which served as a counterpart to the later Fort Crown Point . In 1764 the land was added to the state of New York by royal decree and made arable by the English from 1769. Between 1776 and 1783 the settlers withdrew to the south because of the wars between the British, Indians and French, in the course of which every single building of the settlers was destroyed.

The second settlement from 1783 transformed the flat land in the plain of Lake Champlain into fertile arable land. In the absence of waters with sufficient slopes, however, no hydropower-powered mills could be built; the closest windmill was at Crowns Point and could only be reached by ferry across the Hudson. Despite the good soil, there was neither an industrial settlement nor a large increase in population. On the contrary, the population decreased; a trend that has only reversed since the mid-1960s. The land was primarily used as grazing land. For 1840, 3212 cattle and 30,465 sheep are recorded from the town. The purely agricultural orientation has been preserved to this day; however, sheep farming was replaced by dairy farming, which was widespread in the region.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Addison, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										401
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	734	1100	1210	1306	1229	1279	1000	911	847	900
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	851	796	743	684	576	628	645	717	889	1023
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1393	1371

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Two major highways run through the town: Vermont State Route 17 and Vermont State Route 22A . At Chimney Point, Vermont State Route 125 begins , which runs south towards Bridport. The nearest airport is Middlebury State Airport, 15 km away .

Public facilities

With the exception of Town Hall and the school, there are no public facilities in Addison. The responsible hospital is Porter Medical Center in Middlebury.

education

Addison is part of the Addison Northwest School District along with Ferrisburgh, Panton, Waltham and Vergennes .

The Addison Central School teaches elementary school students through 6th grade. The schools in the surrounding communities must be used for further education.

The Bixby Memorial Free Library in Vergennes is the jointly operated public library for the towns of Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes and Waltham.

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 1 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Samuel Swift: History of Addison County . Middlebury 1859. E-books and scans on archive.org
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 1st volume. Burlington 1867, p. 1 ff .
• History of Addison to circa 1880
  Copy from an 1886 History of Addison County, published by HP Smith. Middlebury College website. ( Memento from August 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Commons : Addison, Vermont  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from February 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Addison in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed April 9, 2012
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Snake Mountain on Peakery.com , accessed July 27, 2017
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
6. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
7. ^ Addison Northwest School District. In: anwsd.org. Retrieved July 27, 2017 . 
8. ^ Addison Central School. In: google.com. sites.google.com, accessed July 27, 2017 . 
9. ^ General Information • Bixby Memorial Free Library . In: Bixby Memorial Free Library . ( bixbylibrary.org ).