Brighton (Vermont)
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 Brighton Town Hall |
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | August 13, 1781 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Vermont | ||
| County : | Essex County | ||
| Coordinates : | 44 ° 48 ′ N , 71 ° 53 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 1,222 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 9.1 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 138.1 km 2 (approx. 53 mi 2 ) of which 134.3 km 2 (approx. 52 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 358 m | ||
| Postal code : | 05846 | ||
| Area code : | +1 802 | ||
| FIPS : | 50-08725 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1462052 | ||
| Website : | brightonvt.org | ||
Brighton is a town in Essex County in the US state of Vermont . At the last census in 2010, it had a total of 1222 inhabitants. It is part of the Berlin Micropolitan Statistical Area .
geography
Geographical location
Brighton is in the northwest of Essex County. The center of the town is a watershed . The source of the East Branch Passumpsic River is in the area of the town. He leaves her in a southerly direction. The Clyde River also rises in the area of the town, it leaves it in a westerly direction and the Nulhegan River leaves it in an easterly direction. The largest lake is the Island Pond in the center a little to the east, in Brighton State Park is the Spectacle Pond . Another large lake is McConell Pond in the northeast . The Brighton Municipal Forest is divided into two parts. One area is in the northwest, the other in the southwest. The surface is hilly, the highest point is the 586 m high Meehann Hill .
Neighboring communities
All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.
- North: Warren Gore , 2.4 mi
- North: Averys Gore , 4.6 mi
- Northeast: Lewis , 9.7 mi
- South-east: Ferdinand , 6.2 mi
- South: Newark , 4.7 miles
- Southwest: Westmore , 14.0 km
- West: Charleston , 17.4 km
- Northwest: Morgan , 4.8 mi
City structure
The main settlement of the Town of Brighton is the census-designated place Island Pond . Another, much smaller settlement is East Brighton .
climate
The mean mean temperature in Brighton is between -11.7 ° C (11 ° 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 first grant to Brighton was given under the name Gilead in 1780. Since the group of beneficiaries did not pay the fees for the grant, a second grant was proclaimed on August 23, 1781, with an area of 23,970 acres (about 97 km²) Joseph Nightingale and other settlers received this grant under the name Random . The settlement started in 1823, the first settler was Enos Bishop. In March 1832 the constituent meeting of the town took place. On November 3, 1832, the name was changed to Brighton.
Population development
| Census Results - Town of Brighton, Vermont | ||||||||||
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| year | 1800 | 1810 | 1820 | 1830 | 1840 | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 |
| Residents | 144 | 105 | 157 | 193 | 945 | 1535 | 1691 | 2020 | ||
| year | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 |
| Residents | 2023 | 2013 | 2280 | 2002 | 1754 | 1671 | 1545 | 1365 | 1557 | 1562 |
| year | 2000 | 2010 | 2020 | 2030 | 2040 | 2050 | 2060 | 2070 | 2080 | 2090 |
| Residents | 1260 | 1222 | ||||||||
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Vermont State Route 114 runs north-south and Vermont State Route 105 runs through the town to the west-east . They meet in the Island Pond settlement . The John H. Boylan State Airport is located in the east of Brighton, on Vermont Route 105, north of Brighton State Park .
Public facilities
The North Country Hospital & Health Care in Newport is the closest hospital to the town's residents.
education
Brighton is part of the North Country Supervisory Union . The Brighton Elementary School offers classes from kindergarten to middle school.
The Island Pond Public Library is located on Mill Street in Island Pond.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Porter H. Dale (1867–1933), politician, member of the United States Congress
Personalities who have worked on site
- Zophar M. Mansur (1843–1914), politician, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
literature
- Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III p 33 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for the period up to 1840)
- Benjamin Homer Hall: History of Eastern Vermont . D. Appleton & Co., New York 1865 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Homepage of the municipality (English)
- Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
- Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from June 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brighton in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed on May 20, 2017
- ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
- ↑ Meehann Hill on Peakery.com , accessed on May 20, 2017
- ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Brighton on the City Daty portal , accessed May 20, 2017
- ↑ Brighton on Virtual Vermont , accessed May 20, 2017
- ↑ Population 1810-2010 according to census results
- ^ NCSU. In: google.com. sites.google.com, accessed May 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Brighton Elementary School , accessed May 20, 2017
- ^ Island Pond Public Library , accessed May 20, 2017
