Danby (Vermont)

Danby
Danby, Vermont
Location in Vermont
Danby
Basic data
Foundation :	August 27, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Rutland County
Coordinates :	43 ° 22 ′  N , 73 ° 3 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 22 ′  N , 73 ° 3 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,311 (as of 2010)
Population density :	12.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	107.6 km 2  (approx. 42 mi 2 ) of which 107.3 km 2  (approx. 41 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	436 m
Postal code :	05739
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-16825
GNIS ID :	1462079
Website :	www.danbyvt.org

Danby is a town in Rutland County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 1,311 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Danby is in the south of Rutland County, in the Green Mountains . The area of ​​the town is interspersed with hills and valleys. The Otter Creek flows on the eastern edge of the area of ​​the town in a northerly direction and several streams flow through the town. The largest body of water is Danby Pond, centrally located in the town. The Dorset Peak is the highest point in the area of ​​the town with 1149 m. To the west are the Clarendon Caves . The Morris Cave in Danby is the fourth largest cave in New England.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Tinmouth , 2 miles
• Northeast: Wallingford , 7.5 mi
• East: Mount Tabor , 15.0
• South: Dorset 2 miles
• Southwest: Rupert , 16.0 km
• West: Pawlet , 9.0 km
• Northwest: Wells , 9.4 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Danby 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

Danby was founded on August 27, 1761 as a Grant by Benning Wentworth . Settlement began in 1765, and the settlers came from Great Nine Partners Patent , a grant in Dutchess County , New York from 1697, from New York Governor Benjamin Fletcher . The first city assembly took place on March 14, 1769. First the area around Danby Four Corners was settled, then Danby Borough followed . Initially there were only a few mills in the town, as the waters flowing through them are not particularly large. A flour mill was missing for a long time.

There are large marble quarries in Danby . The marble has been quarried since 1827. The first marble sawmill was built in 1840 and in 1850 more than 600 workers found work in the marble quarries and production facilities. Most of them came from Italy and Poland. In 1851 Danby was connected to the Rutland – Hoosick Junction railway . Mainly to be able to transport the marble from Danby. The Danby Village Historic District, which was included in the National Register of Historic Places with 113 objects in 1983, testifies to this rich past .

Religions

Quakers settled in Danby in the east of the town early on, Orthodox in the north and Methodists , Baptists and the Congregational Church founded congregations in Danby.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Danby, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										1206
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1487	1730	1607	1362	1379	1535	1419	1319	1202	1084
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	964	1001	1007	1070	1112	990	891	910	992	1193
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1292	1311

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The US Highway 7 runs in a north-south direction along the eastern border of the Town, of Wallingfort to Manchester. Danby Mountain Road runs centrally through Danby. The Rutland – Hoosick Junction railway runs through Danby.

Public facilities

There is no hospital of its own in Danby. The closest hospital is Emma Laing Stevens Hospital in Granville, New York.

education

Danby belongs to the Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union with Danby, Dorset, Langrove, Londonderry, Manchester, Mt. Tabor, Pawlet, Peru, Rupert, Sunderland, Weston and Winhall. There is a school in Danby, the Currier Memorial School .

The SL Griffith Library is located on South Main Street. In his will, SL Griffith set up a fund to build the library. He also donated additional funds for the purchase of new books. The library opened in 1908.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• John G. Otis (1838-1916), politician

Personalities who have worked on site

• Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973), Nobel Prize Winner and Pulitzer Prize Winner

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).
• HP Smith: History of Rutland County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . D. Mason & co., Syracuse, NY 1886, pp. 554 f . ( archive.org ).

Web links

Commons : Danby, 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 April 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Danby in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed January 2, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Dorset Peak . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ). peakery.com ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Morris Cave | Vermont Cavers Association. In: vermontcavers.org. Retrieved January 2, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
6. ↑ Danby, Vermont (VT 05739) 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 January 2, 2017 . 
7. ^ ^{A b} Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
8. ↑ ^{a b} Community Profile in Danby Town Plan 2015 , accessed January 2, 2016.
9. ^ History of Rutland County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. In: archive.org. Retrieved January 2, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
11. ^ Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union , accessed July 15, 2017
12. ↑ PowerSchool Learning: Currier Memorial School: Welcome. (No longer available online.) In: haikulearning.com. brsu.haikulearning.com, archived from the original on January 2, 2017 ; accessed on January 2, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ^ SL Griffith Library. In: wordpress.com. SL Griffith Library, accessed January 2, 2017 (American English).