Berkshire (Vermont)

Berkshire
Former school house
Location in Vermont
Berkshire
Basic data
Foundation :	June 22, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Franklin County
Coordinates :	44 ° 58 ′  N , 72 ° 44 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 58 ′  N , 72 ° 44 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,692 (as of 2010)
Population density :	15.5 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	109.3 km 2  (approx. 42 mi 2 ) of which 109.3 km 2  (approx. 42 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	207 m
Postal code :	05447
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-05425
GNIS ID :	1462041

Berkshire is a town in Franklin County in the state of Vermont in the United States with 1,692 inhabitants.

geography

Geographical location

Berkshire is located in the Green Mountains , about 30 kilometers east of Lake Champlain on the Canadian border , in the north of Franklin County. The Missisquoi River flows south through the east of the town. Some small streams also run through the town. There are only a few, small lakes. The surface is hilly, the highest point is the 397 m high Ayers Hill

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Frelighsburg (Canada), 11.9 km
• East: Richford , 9 miles
• South: Enosburgh , 2.4 mi
• West: Franklin , 5.9 miles

City structure

Berkshire does not have a clear settlement core. Rather, many small collections of houses are spread over the area of ​​the town, mostly with less than a dozen houses. Two settlement names have nevertheless developed; West Berkshire and East Berkshire .

climate

The mean mean temperature in Berkshire ranges from −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 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 grant for the town was given on March 13, 1780 to Wm Goodrich, Barzilla Hudson, Charles Dibble and others. On June 22, 1781 this was registered under the name Berkshire. Settlement started in 1792 and the first settler was Job Barber. The inaugural meeting of town fans was held in 1794. The place was founded as one of six places in the area that served to supply the Vermont army: the proceeds from the sale of the settlement areas and the taxes of the settlers went to it. The city's history went by without any notable events.

The inhabitants of the place live primarily from agriculture and forestry; For about 20 years now, Berkshire has increasingly served as a dormitory for commuters to the more distant industrial areas.

religion

In the district of East Berkshire are the two parishes, a Roman Catholic and the Assemblies of God .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Berkshire, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	172	812	945	1087	1258	1955	1890	1609	1596	1421
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1326	1286	1299	1234	1156	1063	965	931	1116	1190
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1388	1692

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

From northeast to southwest, Vermont Route 105 runs from Richford to Enosburgh. It runs parallel to the Missisquoi River. The Vermont Route 118 extends from the north-west of the Canadian border southeast to Montgomery. It crosses Vermont Route 105 in East Berkshire . There is no Amtrak station in Berkshire. The next is in St. Albans.

Public facilities

The Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans is the closest hospital for residents of the Town.

education

Berkshire is one of Bakersfield, Enosburg, Montgomery and Richford to Franklin Northeast Supervisory Union The Berkshire Elementary School offers classes from preschool to eighth grade.

There is no public library in Berkshire. The closest is the Enosburg Public Library in Enosburg.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Homer Elihu Royce (1819-1891), US Senator
• Charles C. Ellsworth (1824–1899), lawyer and politician
• Homer W. Wheeler (1848–1930), Colonel in the US Army
• George Edmund Foss (1863–1936), politician and member of the US House of Representatives

Personalities who have worked on site

• Thomas Child junior (1818–1869), politician and representative of New York in the US House of Representatives. Started his career here as a lawyer and justice of the peace.

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 22 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 2nd volume. Burlington 1870, p. 109 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

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

• Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Berkshire in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed March 17, 2012
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Ayers Hill on Peakery.com , accessed on May 7, 2017
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Berkshire on the City Daty portal , accessed May 7, 2017
6. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
7. ^ Franklin Northeast Supervisory Union , accessed May 7, 2017.
8. ↑ Berkshire Elementary School , accessed May 7, 2017