Albany (Vermont)

Albany
Albany Location in Vermont
Basic data
Foundation :	June 26, 1782
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orleans County
Coordinates :	44 ° 44 ′  N , 72 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 44 ′  N , 72 ° 20 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	840 (as of 2010)
Population density :	8.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	100.2 km 2  (approx. 39 mi 2 ) of which 99.7 km 2  (approx. 38 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	307 m
Postal code :	05820
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-00475
GNIS ID :	1462024

Albany is a town in Orleans County in the state of Vermont in the United States with 840 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Albany is in the southwest of Orleans County. The town is primarily agricultural. The Black River flows through Albany in a northeast direction. The terrain is hilly, with no significant elevations. The highest point is the Holiday Hill with 373 m height. In the southwest is the Great Hosmer Pond .

Neighboring communities

All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.

• Northeast: Irasburg , 4.5 mi
• East: Barton , 13.3 miles
• Southeast: Glover , 7.5 mi
• South: Greensboro , 4.4 mi
• Southwest: Craftsbury , 3.7 mi
• West: Eden , 14 miles
• Northwest: Lowell , 8.3 mi

City structure

In the town of Albany is the incorporated Village Albany and the settlements Albany Center , East Albany and South Albany .

climate

The mean mean temperature in Albany is between -11.7 ° C (11 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 18.3 ° C (65 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 9 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. The snowfall between mid-October and mid-May is more than two 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, between September and mid-December it is even significantly lower.

history

Albany was proclaimed on June 27, 1781, the grant for Albany received on June 26, 1782 Colonel Henry E. Lutherloh and Major Thomas Cogswell, and others. The town was named Lutterloh after Colonel Henry Emannuel Lutterloh. Lutterloh was the deputy quartermaster of George Washington's Continental Army. The survey took place in 1788. On March 23, 1806 the constituent city assembly took place. On October 13, 1815, the name was changed to Albany . As early as 1779, the Bayley-Hazen Military Road was the first road to reach Albany.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Albany, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	12	101	253	683	920	1052	1224	1151	1138	995
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1028	920	840	810	748	704	560	528	705	782
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	840	941

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont State Route 14 runs from northeast to southwest through the town of Irasburg in the north to the south Craftsbury. There is no train station in Albany.

Public facilities

There is no hospital of its own in Albany. The closest hospital is North Country Hospital & Health Care in Newport City.

education

Albany is part of the Orleans Central Supervisory Union . Albany is home to the Albany Community School , a primary and secondary school with classes up to eighth grade.

The Albany Town Library is on Main Street.

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 2 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

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

• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Albany on the Old Stone House Museum website
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from September 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Albany in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed March 4, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Holiday Hill Map • peakery. In: peakery.com. Retrieved March 4, 2017 (English). 
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Albany, Vermont (VT 05820) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, houses, news, sex offenders. In: city-data.com. www.city-data.com, accessed on March 4, 2017 (English). 
6. ↑ Albany | Old Stone House Museum. In: oldstonehousemuseum.org. Retrieved October 16, 2017 (American English). 
7. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842, p. 2 ( books.google.de ).
8. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
9. ^ Orleans Central Supervisory Union homepage. In: ocsu.org. Orleans Central Supervisory Union, accessed March 4, 2017 . 
10. ^ Albany Community School homepage. In: weebly.com. Albany Community School, accessed March 4, 2017 . 
11. ^ Albany Town Library - Albany, VT. In: librarytechnology.org. Retrieved March 4, 2017 (English).