Belvidere (Vermont)

Belvidere
Lumber Mill Covered Bridge
Location in Vermont
Belvidere
Basic data
Foundation :	November 4, 1791
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Lamoille County
Coordinates :	44 ° 46 ′  N , 72 ° 41 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 46 ′  N , 72 ° 41 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	348 (as of 2010)
Population density :	4.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	83.2 km 2  (approx. 32 mi 2 ) of which 83.2 km 2  (approx. 32 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	331 m
Postal code :	05442
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-04375
GNIS ID :	1462038

Belvidere is a town in Lamoille County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 348 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Belvidere is located in the north of Lamoille County, in a rugged part of the Green Mountains , on the border with Franklin County and is traversed by the North Branch Lamoille River in a westerly direction. The area of ​​the town is very hilly, the highest mountain is the 1014 m high Cold Hollow Mountains High Poind in the north

Neighboring communities

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

• Northeast: Montgomery , 5.4 mi
• East: Eden , 12.5 km
• South: Johnson , 2.4 mi
• West: Waterville , 9.4 km
• Northwest: Bakersfield , 7.1 mi

City structure

Belvidere is divided into two small hamlets ; Belvidere Junction also called Belvidere Corners and Belvidere Center .

climate

The mean mean temperature in Belvidere ranges from −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 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

Morgan Covered Bridge

The Grant for Belvidere was given on March 5, 1787 to the land speculator John Kelley of New York City. This was established on November 4, 1791. The town originally comprised 31,100  acres (126  km² ). On November 15, 1824 part of the area for the establishment of the Town Waterville was ceded and on October 28, 1828 further area was given to the Town of Eden. So that Belvidere now covers almost 20,000 acres (81 km²). Settlement began around 1800.

The Town House was built in 1853.

There are several covered bridges in Belvidere that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The Mill Covered Bridge and the Morgan Covered Bridge .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Belvidere, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents		217	198	185	207	256	366	369	400	571
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	428	429	363	258	220	207	155	189	218	228
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	294	348

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The community is connected to Vermont Route 109 , which connects the surrounding towns in a west-east direction, from Waterville in the west to Eden in the east, and Vermont Route 118 , which branches off Vermont Route 109 in a north direction.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Belvidere. The closest hospital is Copley Hospital in Morrisville.

education

Belvidere is part of the Lamoille North Supervisory Union with Cambridge, Eden, Hyde Park, Johnson and Waterville . The Belvedere Pre School is located on Vermont Route 109th

There is no library in Belvidere. The closest are in Bakersfield, Waterville and Johnson.

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 13 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 592 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Belvidere, 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 May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Belvidere in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed April 18, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ^ Cold Hollow Mountains High Point . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ). peakery.com ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ^ ^{A b} The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military . Miss AM Hemenway, January 1, 1871 ( books.google.de ).
6. ↑ Belvidere, Vermont (VT 05442) 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 April 18, 2017 (English). 
7. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
8. ↑ Population 1810-2010 according to census results
9. ↑ Home. In: lnsu.org. LNSU, accessed April 17, 2017 . 
10. ^ Belvidere Central School. In: lnsu.org. LNSU, accessed April 18, 2017 .