Andover (Vermont)

Andover
The Andover Community Church
Location in Vermont
Andover
Basic data
Foundation :	October 13, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Windsor County
Coordinates :	43 ° 18 ′  N , 72 ° 43 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 18 ′  N , 72 ° 43 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	467 (as of 2010)
Population density :	6.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	74.5 km 2  (approx. 29 mi 2 ) of which 74.4 km 2  (approx. 29 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	448 m
Postal code :	05143
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-01300
GNIS ID :	1462026

Andover is a town in Windsor County , Vermont , United States with 467 residents (2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

The area is east of the main ridge of the Green Mountains and is primarily crossed by the tributaries of the Williams River . The highest peaks in the area of ​​the town are the Markham Mountain and Mount Terrible in the west of the area. The inhabitants of the municipality live primarily from agriculture.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Ludlow , 2.5 mi
• East: Chester , 6.5 mi
• Southeast: Grafton , 7.7 mi
• South: Windham , 2.9 mi
• Southwest: Londonderry , 5.3 mi
• West: Weston , 9.0 km
• Northwest: Mount Holly , 6.5 mi

Note: Andover does not share a common border with Grafton or Mount Holly. Both parishes are so close to Andover that their inclusion on this list is justified.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Andover ranges from −8.3 ° C (17 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 19.4 ° C (67 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This makes the place about 2 degrees cooler compared to the long-term mean of Vermont. The snowfall between October and May is up to 43 cm (approx. 17 inches) in January significantly higher than the average in the USA with approx. 11 cm (4.5 inches). The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

The area of ​​the town was proclaimed for settlement and sold on October 13, 1761. The first settlers came into the country from around 1768; The first permanent branches, which also existed over the winter, did not come about until 1776, however. The constituent town assembly took place in March 1780. The separation of part of the original area of ​​the town as an independent town Weston, which had been prepared as early as 1790, was decided by the Vermont Senate on October 26, 1799.

In 1828 the community was equipped with eight schools. Around 1840 agriculture and cattle breeding, especially sheep breeding, is widespread in the municipality.

The 1790 census, before the breakaway from Weston, showed a population of 275 people in Andover; in the 1800 census there were already over 1,000 inhabitants, more than 40% of them under 10 years old (the area of ​​Weston is also included here). Despite the reduction in size of the area, this number was 878 people in 1840, but has halved again until today, since the area was not taken into account during the development by the railway construction in Vermont from 1848 and the development of the expressway system after the Second World War Vermont's industrial development remained decoupled. The population decline increased during the economic crisis of 1929 and has continued to this day.

Religions

The first Baptist church congregation was founded on August 31, 1803 and in 1809 it was strengthened by its own parish hall. The universalist community was formed in 1807.

Today there is an interdenominational church in the center of the village, the Andover Community Church .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Andover, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										275
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1016	957	1000	975	878	725	670	588	564	418
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	372	284	294	258	213	185	215	239	350	373
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	496	467

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Andover is largely cut off from major traffic routes. The Vermont State Route 100 , a highway that runs between Londonderry and Chester not touched, south of the Town urban area, but the main settlement. There is neither a railway connection nor an airport; the nearest rail connections with passenger services are in Ludlow (approx. 15 km) and in Bellows Falls (approx. 27 km).

Public facilities

There are no public facilities in Andover besides the usual municipal offices. The closest hospital is Springfield Hospital in Springfield .

education

Andover is part of the Two Rivers Supervisory Union with Baltimore, Cavendish, Chester, Ludlow, Mt. Holly and Plymouth .

There are no schools in Andover; the students are taught in surrounding locations. The closest colleges are in New Hampshire ( Keene State College in Keene and Dartmouth College in Hanover ); Universities can be found in Middlebury and Burlington .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Ira Sherwin Hazeltine (1821–1899), politician and representative of the State of Missouri in the US House of Representatives
• Albert Gutterson (1887–1965), athlete and long jump winner at the 1912 Olympic Games

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in Three Parts . Part 3. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 3 f . (English, digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Andover, 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 March 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andover in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed October 1, 2014
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
4. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
5. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
6. ^ Two Rivers Supervisory Union , accessed June 11, 2017