Alburgh, Vermont
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | February 23, 1781 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Vermont | ||
| County : | Grand Isle County | ||
| Coordinates : | 44 ° 57 ′ N , 73 ° 18 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 1.998 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 26.5 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 126.4 km 2 (approx. 49 mi 2 ) of which 75.5 km 2 (approx. 29 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 38 m | ||
| Postal code : | 05440 | ||
| Area code : | +1 802 | ||
| FIPS : | 50-00850 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1456120 | ||
| Website : | www.alburghvt.org | ||
Alburgh (spelling between 1891 and 2006: Alburg ) is a town in Grand Isle County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 1998 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).
geography
Geographical location
Alburgh is bordered by Canada to the north and New York State to the west . The town lies on an elongated peninsula that juts out into Lake Champlain . The largest lake in the town area is Mud Creek Pond . The town's surface is flat, with no significant elevations. To the south is the Alburg Dunes State Forest . Alburgh is the only road connection between Vermont and New York north of Lake Champlain on US Highway 2 .
Neighboring communities
All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.
- North: Noyan, Canada, 7.1 miles
- Northeast: Saint Armand (Canada), 12 mi
- East: Highgate , 11 miles
- Southeast: St. Albans , 19.0 km
- South: North Hero , 9 miles
- Southwest: Chazy , (New York), 14.5 mi
- West: Champlain, New York, 7.8 miles
- Northwest: Rouses Point , 4.3 mi
City structure
In the area of the town there is a settlement called Alburgh Village with around 500 inhabitants as the only settlement core.
climate
The mean mean temperature in Alburgh is between −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 20.6 ° C (69 ° 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
The area of today's Grand Isle County , the northernmost municipality of which is Alburgh, was settled by the French from Canada as early as 1731, who built a stone windmill here. The establishment of a mission church was also planned, but was apparently not realized. The first land allocation was carried out on April 3, 1733 to Francois Foucault and confirmed by the French king on April 6, 1734. This first settlement only existed for a short time, probably less than 10 years. The constant armed conflicts between the French and British in this border region made the area uninteresting for settlers. Nevertheless, there were continuously small settlements until the conquest by the British, who handed the area into the care of Henry Caldwell and his son and who in 1781 called for the land to be taken over.
Today's Alburgh was bought by 65 settlers around Ira Allen , after whom Alburgh was also named. The document is dated February 23, 1783. Since 1786 it has been represented by an MP in the Vermont Congress. The area, however, was controversial; other persons also claimed ownership for themselves; quite a few settlers loyal to the king, but also Sir George Grant, who cited a transfer from the Duke of York. However, Allen and his group of settlers were able to prevail; its inaugural city assembly was held in 1792 and was recognized by the Vermont administration.
The first ferry connections to the surrounding islands and towns were established as early as 1796. Some of them still exist to this day.
The first windmill of the new settlers was built around 1800; previously the nearest mill was in Swanton . Around 1830 a steam-powered sawmill was added in the north of the town, but it burned down in 1834; a subsequent building turned out to be unprofitable.
Between 1850 and 2004 a railway connection, the St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain Railroad or its legal successor, ran on bridges and dams from Swanton in the east over the Missisquoi Bay to Alburgh and from there via another dam to Rouses Point in the state of New York. Today the embankments are used for road traffic.
As of 1861, the community sent 83 of its citizens to the American Civil War, including four Indians and a British deserter from Canada. The number of dead and injured is not recorded.
The place lives primarily from agriculture, but tourism is also widespread. Especially in the summer months, the area is popular as a holiday area because of its large expanses of water. A nature reserve at the southern tip of the peninsula, the Alburg Dunes State Park , in which dunes formed from sands from the Ice Age, contributes to this.
religion
There are three ecclesiastical denominations located in Alburgh: an Episcopal , a Roman Catholic and an independent parish.
Population development
| Census Results - Town of Alburgh, Vermont | ||||||||||
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| year | 1700 | 1710 | 1720 | 1730 | 1740 | 1750 | 1760 | 1770 | 1780 | 1790 |
| Residents | 446 | |||||||||
| year | 1800 | 1810 | 1820 | 1830 | 1840 | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 |
| Residents | 750 | 1106 | 1172 | 1239 | 1344 | 1568 | 1793 | 1716 | 1614 | 1390 |
| year | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 |
| Residents | 1474 | 1311 | 1491 | 1609 | 1623 | 1402 | 1123 | 1271 | 1352 | 1362 |
| year | 2000 | 2010 | 2020 | 2030 | 2040 | 2050 | 2060 | 2070 | 2080 | 2090 |
| Residents | 1952 | 1998 | ||||||||
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Alburgh is the only road connection between Vermont and New York north of Lake Champlain on US Highway 2 . There is no Amtrak stop in Alburgh. The nearest stop is in Rouses Point.
Public facilities
There is no hospital in Alburgh. The closest hospital is Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans.
education
Alburgh belongs to the Grand Isle Supervisory Union with Grand Isle, Isle La Motte, North Hero and South Hero . The Alburgh Community Education Center offers school classes from kindergarten through eighth grade.
The Alburgh Public Library is on Main Street.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Barbour Lewis (1818-1893), politician and member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee.
- Willis Sweet (1856–1925), politician and member of the House of Representatives from Idaho.
Personalities who have worked on site
- Jedd P. Ladd (1828-1894), lawyer and politician, State Auditor of Vermont
literature
- Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . tape III . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 3 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - for development up to 1840).
- Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 487 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Community homepage (in English)
- Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from June 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
- Description of the Alburg Dunes State Park (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alburgh in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed 17 March 2012
- ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
- ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
- ^ Alburg, Vermont; city-data.com , accessed May 2, 2017
- ^ A b Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military . AM Hemenway, 1871, p. 487-517 ( books.google.com ).
- ^ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont: natural, civil, and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. George H. Salisbury, Burlington 1842, p. 3 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
- ^ Grand Isle Supervisory Union , accessed May 2, 2017.
- ↑ Alburgh Community Education Center ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 2, 2017.
- ^ Alburgh Public Library , accessed May 2, 2017.
