Corinth (Vermont)

Corinth
Blake Memorial Library in Corinth
Location in Vermont
Corinth
Basic data
Foundation :	February 4, 1764
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orange County
Coordinates :	44 ° 3 ′  N , 72 ° 17 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 3 ′  N , 72 ° 17 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,367 (as of 2010)
Population density :	10.9 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	125.8 km 2  (approx. 49 mi 2 ) of which 125.7 km 2  (approx. 49 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	533 m
Postal code :	05039
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-15700
GNIS ID :	1462075
Website :	corinthvt.org

Corinth is a town in Orange County , Vermont , United States with 1,367 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Corinth is centrally located in Orange County. The Waits River flows east through the northeast of the area. Its tributaries also flow through the other areas of the town. There are no larger lakes in Corinth. The surface is very hilly, partly with steep slopes. The highest point is the 669 m high Mayston Hill in the northwest.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Topsham , 2.9 mi
• Northeast: Newbury , 11.5 miles
• East: Bradford , 8.5 miles
• Southeast: West Fairlee , 4.9 mi
• South: Vershire , 3.5 mi
• Southwest: Chelsea , 14.0 km
• West: Washington , 9.7 miles
• Northwest: Orange , 2.7 mi

City structure

There are several settlement areas in Corinth: Cookeville in the west with the town office, Corinth Center , Corinth Corner , East Corinth , West Corinth , South Corinth and Goose Green .

climate

The mean mean temperature in Corinth 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

One of the New Hampshire Grants to Corinth was given to Colonel John Taplin, Major Henry Moore and a Mr. Ward from Benning Wentworth on February 4, 1764 . The settlement started in 1777. First came some of the later settlers who collected maple syrup. Ezekiel Colby, one of these men, settled in the center of Corinth with his family that summer. More settlers followed. The only recipient of the grant, who also settled in Corinth, was John Taplin.

John Nutting built the first grist mill in Cookeville in 1777. The town's economic basis was agriculture. But copper was also mined in the Pike Hill Copper Mine from 1855 to 1915. In addition to agriculture, the timber industry was an essential economic factor.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Corinth, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										578
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1410	1876	1907	1953	1970	1906	1627	1470	1627	1027
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	978	1005	936	817	822	786	775	683	904	1244
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1461	1367

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont State Route 25 runs east through the town. It follows the course of the Waits River from Orange in the northwest to Bradford in the east. There is no rail link through the town.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Corinth. The Gifford Medical Center in Randolph or the Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin are the closest hospitals.

education

Corinth is part of the Orange East Supervisory Union . Corinth is home to the Waits River Valley School , with classes from kindergarten through eighth grade.

Blake Memorial Library

The Blake Memorial Library is located in East Corinth . It was founded in the early 1890s by three young men in East Corinth. They found a room and set it up, then they took a wheelbarrow and drove through the streets asking for books. Others followed and the East Corinth Library Association was formed. The rooms had to be changed several times until a plot of land for a building was found in November 1900. A former resident of the town Almira Blake Gendrot Fenno from Boston finally decided, together with her two siblings, in memory of her parents from Corinth to finance them. The new building was inaugurated in 1902 and the Blake Memorial Library Association was established. In 1945 the Blake Memorial Library burned down. The entire inventory was lost, including some works of art that Almira Blake had donated to the library. Only the 200 to 300 books that were in circulation could be preserved. A short time later, work was carried out on a new, modest building, as only a few funds were available despite the generous donations from the Blake siblings. This was completed in 1949.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Reuben Robie (1799–1872), politician, member of the US House of Representatives
• Hale K. Darling (1869–1940), 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 58 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 873 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Corinth, 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 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Corinth in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed March 27, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Mayston Hill . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ^ Corinth, Vermont Official Website-Municipal Info 05039-05040. In: corinthvt.org. Retrieved March 28, 2017 (American English). 
6. ^ Corinth, Vermont (VT 05039) 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 28, 2017 (English). 
7. ^ The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military . Miss AM Hemenway, 1871 ( books.google.de ).
8. ^ Corinth Town Plan 2012 (pdf) , accessed March 28, 2017
9. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
10. ↑ About. In: oesu.org. Orange East Supervisory Union, accessed March 28, 2017 . 
11. ^ Waits River Valley School. In: wrvschool.org. Retrieved March 28, 2017 . 
12. ^ Blake Memorial Library Vison & History - Corinth Vermont . In: Blake Memorial Library . ( blakememorial.org ).