Elmore (Vermont)

Elmore
View over Lake Elmore
Location in Vermont
Elmore
Basic data
Foundation :	August 21, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Lamoille County
Coordinates :	44 ° 29 ′  N , 72 ° 31 ′  W 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
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

View from Mount Elmore

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
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

Commons : Elmore, Vermont  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• 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

1. ↑ Elmore in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed April 19, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ 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.  
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ 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). 
6. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
7. ^ Elmore, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved April 19, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
9. ^ 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.  
10. ↑ tes. In: google.com. sites.google.com, accessed April 19, 2017 .