Elmore (Vermont)
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Foundation : | August 21, 1781 | |
State : | United States | |
State : | Vermont | |
County : | Lamoille County | |
Coordinates : | 44 ° 29 ′ N , 72 ° 31 ′ W | |
Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | |
Residents : | 855 (as of 2010) | |
Population density : | 8.4 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Area : | 102.6 km 2 (approx. 40 mi 2 ) of which 101.4 km 2 (approx. 39 mi 2 ) is land |
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Height : | 331 m | |
Postal code : | 05657 | |
Area code : | +1 802 | |
FIPS : | 50-23725 | |
GNIS ID : | 1462089 | |
Website : | elmorevt.org |
Elmore is a town in Lamoille County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 855 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).
geography
Geographical location
Elmore is located in southeast Lamoille County, in a rugged stretch of the Green Mountains on the Washington County border . Part of the streams drains north into the Lamoille River and south into the Winooski River . There are several larger lakes in the town area. The largest is Lake Elmore in the north. To the south are Hartwood Pond and Little Pond . The area of the town is very hilly, the highest point is the 787 m high Elmore Mountain in the north. It is located in Elmore State Park . Adjacent to it and running south is the CC Putnam State Forest .
Neighboring communities
All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.
- Northeast: Wolcott , 4.2 mi
- Northeast: Hardwick , 11.2 mi
- Southeast: Woodbury , 7.5 mi
- South: Calais , 6.9 km
- Southwest: Worcester , 5.7 mi
- West: Stowe , 22.0 km
- Northwest: Morristown , 4.7 mi
climate
The mean mean temperature in Elmore is between -11.7 ° C (11 ° 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
The Grant for Elmore was given on November 7, 1780 to Colonel Samuel Elmore and other settlers and named after Colonel Elmore. This was established on August 21, 1781. Settlement began in 1790 and Martin and Jesse Elmore were among the first settlers. The town's constituent assembly took place on July 23, 1794. The grant recipients were soldiers in the American Revolutionary War . General Oliver Wolcott, after whom the neighboring town of Wolcott was named, was among the recipients of the grant.
Population development
Census Results - Town of Elmore, Vermont | ||||||||||
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year | 1700 | 1710 | 1720 | 1730 | 1740 | 1750 | 1760 | 1770 | 1780 | 1790 |
Residents | 12 | |||||||||
year | 1800 | 1810 | 1820 | 1830 | 1840 | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 |
Residents | 45 | 157 | 157 | 442 | 476 | 504 | 602 | 637 | 682 | 593 |
year | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 |
Residents | 550 | 553 | 468 | 382 | 300 | 312 | 237 | 292 | 421 | 573 |
year | 2000 | 2010 | 2020 | 2030 | 2040 | 2050 | 2060 | 2070 | 2080 | 2090 |
Residents | 849 | 855 |
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The Vermont Route 12 runs north to south of Morristown in the north to the south Worchester. It runs along Lake Elmore . There is no train station in Elmore. The nearest Amtrak stations are in Waterbury or Montpelier.
Public facilities
There is no hospital in Elmore. The closest hospital is Copley Hospital in Morrisville.
education
Elmore is part of the Lamoille South Supervisory Union with Morristown and Stowe . The Elmore School is located on Vermont Route 12th
There is no library in Elmore. The closest are in Wolcott, Morrisville and Hyde Park.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- George W. Bailey (1833–1865), politician and Secretary of State of Vermont
literature
- Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 67 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
- Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 626 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Homepage of the community
- Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elmore in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed April 19, 2017
- ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
- ↑ Elmore Mountain . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ). peakery.com ( Memento of the original from April 20, 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.
- ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Elmore, Vermont (VT 05680) 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 April 19, 2017 (English).
- ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
- ^ Elmore, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved April 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
- ^ Lamoille South Supervisory Union, Morristown, Stowe, and Elmore Vermont. (No longer available online.) In: lamoillesouthsu.org. Archived from the original on April 20, 2017 ; Retrieved April 19, 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.
- ↑ tes. In: google.com. sites.google.com, accessed April 19, 2017 .