Chittenden (Vermont)

Chittenden
Chittenden Location in Vermont
Basic data
Foundation :	March 16, 1780
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Rutland County
Coordinates :	43 ° 46 ′  N , 72 ° 54 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 46 ′  N , 72 ° 54 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,258 (as of 2010)
Population density :	6.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	191.4 km 2  (about 74 mi 2 ) of which 188.0 km 2  (about 73 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	670 m
Postal code :	05737
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-14350
GNIS ID :	1462071
Website :	www.chittendenvt.org

Chittenden is a town in Rutland County , Vermont , United States with a population of 1,258 (2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Chittenden is mainly in the western reaches of the Green Mountains ; only small parts of the west of the town are formed by the plain around Lake Champlain . Because the Town area encompasses part of the main western Green Mountains range, some of Vermont's tallest mountains can be found here. These include in particular the Bloodroot Mountain (1061 m), Mount Carmel (1027 m) and The Cape (800 m).

The mountains are also where a large Vermont reservoir, the Chittenden Reservoir , is found. It has several inlets (especially Green Brook and Hewitt Brook), but only one outlet: the East Brook , regulated by the Chittenden Dam , a low embankment , which flows into the Otter Creek - which does not go through the Chittenden area .

The main settlements in the village are Chittenden Village and North Chittenden , both to the west of the town.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Goshen , 6.1 mi
• Northeast: Rochester , 5.5 mi
• East: Pittsfield , 4.8 miles
• Southeast: Killington , 14.1 km
• South: Mendon , 3 miles
• Southwest: Rutland , 6.7 km
• West: Pittsford , 10 miles
• Northwest: Brandon , 11.7 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Chittenden is between -7.2 ° C (19 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 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

Due to its location in the mountains, which lacked good arable land, Chittenden was left out in the first large wave of settlement. The first settlement began only after the end of the War of Independence . On March 14, 1780, the Vermont Republic Congress proclaimed the area for sale (Grant) and two days later, on March 16, it was sold to a group of interested parties (Charter).

Early iron and manganese ore finds attracted settlers. The first forge was built in 1792, but most of the iron ore mined - up to 600 tons per year - was processed in the blast furnaces in neighboring Pittsford. In 1839, however, a blast furnace was also built in Chittenden, which produced up to 500 pounds (about 225 kg) of bar iron per day.

The area of ​​the town was increased again when on November 2, 1816 the southern part of the dissolved town of Philadelphia Chittenden was struck.

Due to its location, Chittenden was not connected to the railway lines that crossed the mountains from 1849 and connected Vermont to the metropolises on the east coast and the developing centers on the Great Lakes in the west. Since the ore supplies were also running out or their mining became unprofitable, but no meaningful agriculture was possible in the mountains, many residents emigrated again from 1880 onwards.

The construction of the Chittenden Reservoir and the establishment of the Green Mountain National Forest did not bring any additional tourists to the village, because the commonly used access to this area is via the more easily accessible Rutland; In addition, the shores of the lake cannot be built on because both the lake itself and the surrounding forest area have been established as landscape protection areas. Since the mid-1960s, however, the mountain slopes on the western edge of the Mountains have been increasingly used as residential areas for commuters to the surrounding centers of Rutland and Brandon.

Religions

The early religious groups established were the Methodists , the Congregationalists, and the largest group, the Catholics . A first meeting house was built by the Methodists in 1832, and the Congregationalists followed a year later.

Today there are several denominations in Chittenden: on the one hand the Catholic parish of St. Robert , the Methodist parish Church Of The Wildwood and the North Chittenden Wesleyan Church in North Chittenden.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Chittenden, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										159
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	327	446	528	610	644	675	763	802	1092	730
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	621	563	472	341	379	424	460	646	927	1102
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1182	1258

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The place is only connected to the Vermont traffic routes by local highways; the US Highway 7 that runs north-south parallel to the Green Mountains, west leads to Chittenden over, the US Highway 4 , which runs from east to west by Vermont, traverses the Green Mountains south of Chittenden. There are also no rail connections or airport connections.

Public facilities

In Chittenden there are no public facilities other than the usual city offices, the library and the primary school. The closest hospital is the Rutland Regional Medical Center in Rutland .

education

Chittenden belongs to the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union with Brandon, Goshen, Leicester, Mendon, Pittsford, Sudbury and Whiting .

An eight-class middle school with a preschool, the Barstow Memorial School , is located in the village . For attending secondary schools, surrounding communities, especially Brandon and Rutland, must be approached.

Personalities

Personalities who have worked on site

• Charles Carleton Massey (1838–1905), English lawyer and theosophist, after an experience in Chittenden he co-founded the Theosophical Society

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 54 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

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

• Community website
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry of the Green Mountains National Forest on the Forestry Department's site
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from August 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chitenden in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed October 1, 2014
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
4. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
5. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
6. ↑ Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 28, 2017 
7. ↑ Homepage of the Barstow Memorial School (English)