Charleston (Vermont)

Charleston
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Location in Vermont
Charleston
Basic data
Foundation :	November 10, 1780
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orleans County
Coordinates :	44 ° 51 ′  N , 72 ° 1 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 51 ′  N , 72 ° 1 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,023 (as of 2010)
Population density :	10.5 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	100.0 km 2  (approx. 39 mi 2 ) of which 97.1 km 2  (approx. 37 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	358 m
Postcodes :	05833, 05872
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-13150
GNIS ID :	1462067
Website :	charlestonvt.org

Charleston is a town in Orleans County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 1,023 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Charleston is in northeast Orleans County. The Clyde River flows centrally through the town from northwest to southeast and forms some larger lakes, such as Pensioner Pond , Charleston Pond and Toad Pond . The largest lake in the area of Town is, however, the location in the north and the Seymour Lake related Echo Lake . The area of ​​the town is hilly without any significant elevations. The highest is the 613 m high Pierce Hill in the south .

Neighboring communities

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

• Northeast: Morgan , 10.1 km
• East: Brighton , 17.4 km
• South: Westmore , 3.2 miles
• West: Brownington , 6.8 mi
• Northwest: Derby , 7.5 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Charleston 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

Commodore Abraham Whipple received the grant for the area on November 6, 1780 to honor him for his work in the defense of Charleston , South Carolina in the American Revolutionary War . The town was founded on November 10, 1780 and Whipple named it Navy because he had served in the American Navy. The first settler in Navy was Andrew McGaffey with his family in 1803, and Abner Allyn also settled in the same year. The town's constituent assembly took place on March 31, 1806. On November 6, 1825, Navy in Charleston was renamed by government act. Charleston is divided into East and West Charleston.

East Charleston Plymouth Congregational Church

In East Charleston, Jonas Allen built the first sawmill in 1824. A flour mill followed in 1834, built by John Cushman. A church was built in 1855.

West Charleston got its first flour mill in 1810. The Orthodox Congregational Church was founded in 1844 and the church was built from 1854 to 1859, a stone church called the Union House .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Charleston, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents		56	90	564	731	1008	1160	1278	1204	1058
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1025	993	921	895	834	764	668	654	851	844
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	895	1023

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont State Route 5A runs from north to south through the town of Derby in the north to Westmoreland in the southwest. From it branches off in a south-easterly direction from Vermont State Route 101 to Brighton. There is no rail link in Charleston.

Public facilities

There is no hospital of its own in Charleston. The closest hospital is North Country Hospital & Health Care in Newport City.

education

Charleston is part of the North Country Supervisory Union . The Charleston Elementary School is located in Charleston . The school offers classes from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.

There is no library in Charleston. The closest libraries are the Jones Memorial Library in Orleans and the Barton Public Library in Barton.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Benjamin Hunkins (1810–1900), politician, helped draft the Wisconsin Constitution

Personalities who have worked on site

• Emory A. Hebard (1917–1993), politician and Vermont State Treasurer

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 50 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charleston in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed on March 7, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ^ Pierce Hill . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Charleston, Vermont (VT 05872) 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 March 9, 2017 (English). 
6. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842, p. 50 f . ( books.google.de ).
7. ↑ ^{a b} Charleston | Old Stone House Museum. In: oldstonehousemuseum.org. Retrieved March 9, 2017 (American English). 
8. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
9. ^ NCSU. In: google.com. sites.google.com, accessed March 9, 2019 . 
10. ^ Charleston Elementary School - Classrooms . ( google.com ).