Dorset (Vermont)

Dorset
Scene in the listed city center
Location in Vermont
Dorset
Basic data
Foundation :	August 20, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Bennington County
Coordinates :	43 ° 17 ′  N , 73 ° 2 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 17 ′  N , 73 ° 2 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	2,031 (as of 2010)
Population density :	16.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	124.0 km 2  (approx. 48 mi 2 ) of which 123.7 km 2  (approx. 48 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	421 m
Postcodes :	05251, 05253
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-17725
GNIS ID :	1462082
Website :	www.dorsetvt.org

Dorset is a town in Bennington County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 2,031 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Dorset is north of Bennington County in the Green Mountains . There are only a few rivers in the town. The Otter Creek flows through the eastern part of the town in a northerly direction. The Mettawee River also flows north through the western part . There are several smaller lakes on it. Like Prentiss Pond in the north. The Batten Kill, on the other hand, flows south. The area of ​​the town is hilly and the highest point is Mount Aeolus, 980 m high .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Danby , 2 miles
• Northeast: Mount Tabor , 8 miles
• East: Peru , 10 miles
• South-east: Winhall , 8.0 km
• South: Manchester , 3 miles
• Southwest: Sandgate , 10.2 mi
• West: Rupert , 11.4 miles
• Northwest: Pawlet , 10 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Dorset ranges from −6.7 ° C (20 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 20.1 ° C (68 ° F) in July. This means that the place is around 8 ° C cooler compared to the long-term mean in the USA, but almost 2 ° C warmer than the Vermont mean. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

Marble quarry in Dorset

The Grant for Dorset was awarded on August 20, 1761 as part of the New Hampshire Grants by Benning Wentworth . It comprised 26,240 acres (10,619 hectares ). The name goes back to Dorset in England. Settlement started in 1768 and the first settlers were Felix Powell, Isaac Lacey, Benjamin Baldwin, Abraham Underhill, John Manley, Jr., and George Page. The town's constituent assembly took place in 1769. In an epidemic in 1813, around 40 town residents died.

Marble was mined in Dorset from 1785. The first marble quarry was in South Dorset. Isaac Underhill founded it on the Reuben Bloomer floor. More than two dozen quarries have opened on the slopes of Dorset Mountain and Mount Aeolus. It was from these quarries that the marble for the New York Public Library , the Brown University Library , and the Memorial Continental Hall of the Daughters of the American Revolution came .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Dorset, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										958
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1286	1294	1359	1507	1432	1700	2090	2195	2005	1696
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1477	1472	1226	1120	1128	1150	1150	1293	1648	1918
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	2036	2031

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

US Highway 7 runs through east Dorset (north-south). It follows the course of the Otter Creek and Vermont State Route 30 , which also runs in a north-south direction, follows the course of the Mettawee River.

The Rutland – Hoosick Junction railway runs through Dorset, with stops in North and East Dorset.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Dorset. The closest is the Rutland Regional Medical Center in Rutland.

education

Dorset is part of the Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union with Danby, Langrove, Londonderry, Manchester, Mt. Tabor, Pawlet, Peru, Rupert, Sunderland, Weston and Winhall. In Dorset, The Dorset School offers classes from kindergarten through eighth grade.

The private Long Trail School also offers classes for students in grades six to twelve and prepares them for college.

The Dorset Village Library in Dorset is the local library for residents and offers an extensive program.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• William Griffith Wilson (1895–1971), one of the founders of the Alcoholics Anonymous movement
• Leonard Sargeant (1793–1880), Lieutenant Governor of Vermont

Personalities who have worked on site

• Reginald Marsh (1898–1954), painter

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 64 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 1st volume. Burlington 1867.

Web links

Commons : Dorset, 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. ^ Dorset in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed July 9, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Mount Aeolus on Peakery.com , accessed July 9, 2017
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
6. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
7. ^ Dorset Historical Society - A brief history. In: dorsetvthistory.org. Retrieved July 9, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
9. ^ Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union , accessed July 15, 2017
10. ^ The Dorset School , accessed July 9, 2017
11. ^ Long Trail School , accessed July 9, 2017
12. ^ Dorset Village Library , accessed July 9, 2017