Braintree (Vermont)

Braintree
Church in Braintree
Location in Vermont
Braintree
Basic data
Foundation :	August 1, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orange County
Coordinates :	43 ° 58 ′  N , 72 ° 43 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 58 ′  N , 72 ° 43 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,246 (as of 2010)
Population density :	12.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	99.3 km 2  (approx. 38 mi 2 ) of which 99.2 km 2  (approx. 38 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	295 m
Postal code :	05060
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-07600
GNIS ID :	1462047
Website :	braintreevt.com

Braintree is a town in Orange County , Vermont , United States with a population of 1,246 (2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Braintree is located in the southwest of Orange County. The Third Branch White River flows centrally in a south-easterly direction with various smaller tributaries through the town. There are few smaller lakes in Braintree. The area of ​​the town is hilly, with a larger range of hills to the west. There is also the highest mountain in the town, the 923 m high Braintree Mountain .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Roxbury 2.5 mi
• Northeast: Brookfield , 8.5 mi
• East: Randolph , 7 miles
• Southeast: Bethel , 2.3 mi
• South: Rochester , 14.1 km
• West: Granville , 9.2 miles

City structure

There were three settlement areas in Braintree , West Braintree with a station on the Windsor – Burlington railway line , a post office, a hotel, shops and a sawmill. Hutchinsons Village , now known as Peth, is on Spears Brook. The post office used to be located there, as well as a church, a shop, and oil, clover and saw mills. In 1840, these shops moved, except for the mills in East Braintree also known as Snowsville after Jeremiah Snow, who settled in 1814 and built a sawmill and a gristmill. Today there are still two settlement areas: West Braintree and East Braintree .

climate

The mean mean temperature in Braintree is between −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 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

The grant for Braintree was proclaimed on November 2, 1780, the grant received Jacob Spear, Levi Davis and 65 others. This was confirmed on August 1, 1781. Settlement of the town began in 1783. The first settlers included Silas Flint, Samuel Bass, Jacob and Samuel Spear and others. The first settlers came from Braintree , Massachusetts, and the town was also named Braintree after their previous home. The town's constituent assembly took place on March 7, 1788.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Braintree, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										221
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	531	850	1033	1209	1332	1228	1225	1066	1051	854
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	776	760	707	635	648	626	536	751	1065	1174
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1194	1246

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Vermont State Route 12A runs along the White River from the northwest to the southeast from Roxbury in the northwest to Randolph in the southeast. The Windsor – Burlington railway had a stop in Braintree and is now a freight line.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Braintree. The Gifford Medical Center , which is located in Randolph, is the nearest hospital.

education

Braintree is part of the Orange Southwest Supervisory Union . Braintree is home to the Braintree Elementary School , with classes from kindergarten through sixth grade.

There is no library in Braintree. The closest is the Kimball Public Library in Randolph.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Jefferson P. Kidder (1815–1883), politician, Dakota Territory delegate to the US House of Representatives

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 27 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 844 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Braintree, Vermont  - collection of images, 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 October 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Braintree in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed March 26, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Braintree Mountain . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Town Plan of Braintree 2006 , accessed March 26, 2017.
6. ↑ Braintree, Vermont (VT 05060) profiles: 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 March 26, 2017 (English). 
7. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
8. ^ 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 ).
9. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
10. ↑ Ossu Public Schools Serving Braintree, Brookfield, and Randolph, Vermont. In: orangesouthwest.org. Retrieved March 26, 2017 . 
11. ^ Braintree Elementary School, Braintree education system, VT. (No longer available online.) In: orangesouthwest.org. Archived from the original on March 27, 2017 ; accessed on March 26, 2017 .