Cranberry Isles

Cranberry Isles
Islesford Historical Museum
Location in Maine
Cranberry Isles
Basic data
Foundation :	March 16, 1830
State :	United States
State :	Maine
County :	Hancock County
Coordinates :	44 ° 15 ′  N , 68 ° 14 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 15 ′  N , 68 ° 14 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	141 (as of 2010)
Population density :	17.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	118.03 km 2  (approx. 46 mi 2 ) of which 8.21 km 2  (approx. 3 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	0 m
Postal code :	04625
Area code :	+1 207
FIPS :	23-14905
GNIS ID :	0582423
Website :	www.castine.me.us

Cranberry Isles is a town in Hancock County in the state of Maine in the United States . In 2010, 141 people lived there in 70 households on a land area of ​​8.2 km². It is located on the Cranberry Islands .

geography

According to the United States Census Bureau , Cranberry Isles has a total area of ​​118.0 km², of which 8.2 km² are land and 109.8 km² are water .

Geographical location

Cranberry Isles is located south of Hancock County on five islands. These shield the Somes Sound from the Atlantic . The surface is flat, without any significant elevations.

The archipelago consists of:

1. Great Cranberry Island
2. Little Cranberry Island
3. Sutton Island
4. Baker Island
5. Bear Island

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Mount Desert , 7.3 mi
• Northeast: Winter Harbor , 6.7 mi
• South: Frenchboro , 3.2 mi
• South-west: Tremont , 25.6 km
• West: Southwest Harbor , 5.8 miles

City structure

There are three settlement areas in Cranberry Isles : Cranberry Isles , Islesford and Sutton .

Only Great Cranberry Island and Little Cranberry Island are permanently settled. There are numerous summer homes on Sutton Island.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Cranberry Isles ranges from −6.1 ° C (21 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 20.6 ° C (69 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 6 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. The snowfalls between October and May are up to two and a half meters, more than twice as high as the average snow depth in the USA; the daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

Cranberry Isles was spun off from Mount Desert Town as an independent town in 1830. In 1849, more areas of Mount Desert were added to the town of Cranberry Isles. The name was derived from a cranberry field, which inspired Governor Francis Bernard to use this name in 1762. Bernard himself had received a grant from the Province of Massachusetts Bay for the Mount Desert area in the same year .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents				258	239	283	345	350	343	330
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	374	399	410	349	334	228	181	186	198	189
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	128	141

Culture and sights

Buildings

Two buildings on Little Cranberry Island have been listed and listed on the National Register of Historic Places :

• Baker Island Light Station , Ilsford, Little Cranberry Island, recorded in 1988, register no. 88000046
• Islesford Historical Museum and Blue Ducks Ships Store , Ilsford, Little Cranberry Island, recorded 1980, register no. 80000224

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The islands are only accessible by ferry and there are municipal roads on the islands.

Public facilities

There are no medical facilities or hospitals in Cranberry Isles. The closest are in Bar Harbor.

The Great Cranberry Library is located on Great Cranberry, on Cranberry Road.

education

The Cranberry Isles School Department is responsible for school education. Cranberry Isles is part of the Mount Desert Island Regional School System - AOS 91 , along with Bar Harbor, Bass Harbor, Deer Isle, Frenchboro, Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor, Swan's Island and Trenton .

There are two schools in Cranberry Isles, Longfellow School on Great Cranberry Island and Ashley Bryan School in Islesford on Little Cranberry Island. The Longfellow School offers school classes from kindergarten through eighth grade. Ashley Bryan School offers classes from Year 9 through Year 11.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cranberry Isles in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed May 19, 2018
2. ↑ Maine 2010 Census Results ; official publication of the Census Authority, (English; PDF; 32.5 MB)
3. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
4. ^ Cranberry Isles, Hancock County | Maine Genealogy. In: mainegenealogy.net. Accessed May 19, 2018 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Cranberry Isles, Maine (ME 04646) 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 May 19, 2018 (English). 
6. ↑ Cranberry Isles . In: Maine: An Encyclopedia . 2011 ( maineanencyclopedia.com ).
7. ^ History of Cranberry Isles. In: cranberryisles.com. Retrieved May 19, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Population 1830–2010 according to census results
9. ^ The Great Cranberry Library. (No longer available online.) In: cranberryisles.com. Archived from the original on September 23, 2017 ; accessed on May 19, 2018 (English). 
10. ↑ Local: Maine.gov. In: maine.gov. Retrieved May 19, 2018 (American English). 
11. ↑ Mount Desert Island Regional School System MDIRSS AOS91. In: mdirss.org. Retrieved June 2, 2018 . 
12. ↑ website. In: cranberryschools.org. Retrieved May 19, 2018 . 

Web links

Commons : Cranberry Isles, Maine  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Community website
• Cranberry Isles on Maine.gov
• Cranberry Isles on City-Data.com