Baltimore (Vermont)

Baltimore
The town hall, the former school
Location in Vermont
Baltimore
Basic data
Foundation :	October 19, 1793
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Windsor County
Coordinates :	43 ° 21 ′  N , 72 ° 34 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 21 ′  N , 72 ° 34 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	244 (as of 2010)
Population density :	20.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	12.1 km 2  (approx. 5 mi 2 ) of which 12.0 km 2  (approx. 5 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	294 m
Postal code :	05143
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-02575
GNIS ID :	1462032
Website :	www.BaltimoreVT.org

Baltimore is a town in Windsor County in the state of Vermont in the United States with a population of 244 (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Baltimore is centrally located in the southern part of Windsor County, in the eastern foothills of the Green Mountains . The town is located on the steep southern slope of the 645 m high Hawks Mountain. The summit of Hawks Mountain and the further summit line of the mountains represent the border to Cavendish, the town from which Baltimore emerged due to its inaccessible location. The slopes belong to the Hawks Mountain Wildlife Management Area. Several streams drain the area in a south-easterly direction and finally flow into the Black River .

Neighboring communities

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

• Northeast: Weathersfield , 5.8 mi
• Southeast: Springfield , 5.5 mi
• South: Chester , 5.1 mi
• Northwest: Cavendish , 2.9 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Baltimore is between −15.6 ° C (4 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 27.4 ° C (81 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that compared to the long-term mean of Vermont, the place is about 1 degree cooler in the winter half-year, and about 3 degrees warmer in summer. The snowfalls between October and May (with a peak of about 45 cm in January) are up to two meters, about twice as high as the mean snow depth in the USA. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

The site was originally listed as part of Cavendish , but was declared independent by the Vermont Senate on October 19, 1793. The background was the poor communication between the two areas at the time due to a steep ridge, Hawks Mountain, which divided the original town. The border between today's counties runs for the most part on this ridge. The constituent city assembly took place on March 12, 1794.

Several small waterways cross the community, but none of them are large enough to act as a fuel for hydro-powered industries. Baltimore remained a purely agricultural place from the start. In 1840 the main products were potatoes and sheep. The place was not connected to the outside world either by the forced construction of the railway in Vermont from 1848 or by the development of the expressway network after the Second World War.

Religions

Religious life in Baltimore, as is often observed in the settlements on the west bank of the Connecticut River, was pronounced from the start. The Congregationalists , Baptists, and Universalists planted churches in Baltimore.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Baltimore, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	174	207	204	179	155	124	116	83	71	64
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	55	54	62	69	85	89	90	170	181	190
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	250	244

Culture and sights

Parks

The Hawks Mountain Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is located north of the town on the steep and rugged slopes of Hawks Mountain. Another part of the area is in the area of ​​the Town of Cavendish. It is a total of 2183 acres (883.43 hectares ). The wood rights still lie with the original owners. Porcupines and bobcats live here. The area is forested with red maple , sugar maple , yellow birch and red beech . In addition, individual groups of spruce and oak grow . The area was named after Colonel John Hawks, an officer in the Seven Years War

Economy and Infrastructure

Public facilities

The municipality has, with the exception of the most necessary administrations, no public facilities. The closest hospital is Springfield Hospital in Springfield .

education

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

Since the closure of the one-room school, which has since been used as the town hall of the community, there are no more schools on site. Baltimore is part of the Two Rivers Supervisory Union with Andover, Cavendish, Chester, Ludlow, Mount Holly and Plymouth.

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in Three Parts . Part 3. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 7 (English, digitized version ).

Web links

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

• Homepage of the municipality (English)
• 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. ↑ Baltimore in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed October 1, 2014
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ^ Hawks Mountain . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Hawks Mountain Wildlife Management Area | fpr. In: vermont.gov. fpr.vermont.gov, accessed February 24, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
6. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
7. ^ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in Three Parts . Part 3. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 7 (English, digitized version ).
8. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
9. ^ Two Rivers Supervisory Union , accessed June 11, 2017
10. ↑ About - Two Rivers. (No longer available online.) In: trsu.org. su.trsu.org, archived from the original on January 17, 2017 ; accessed on February 24, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.