Essex (Vermont)
Essex | ||
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Downtown Essex Junction |
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Location in Vermont | ||
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Basic data | ||
Foundation : | July 7, 1763 | |
State : | United States | |
State : | Vermont | |
County : | Chittenden County | |
Coordinates : | 44 ° 32 ′ N , 73 ° 4 ′ W | |
Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | |
Residents : | 19,587 (as of 2010) | |
Population density : | 194.7 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Area : | 101.8 km 2 (approx. 39 mi 2 ) of which 100.6 km 2 (approx. 39 mi 2 ) is land |
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Height : | 144 m | |
Postcodes : | 05451, 05452 | |
Area code : | +1 802 | |
FIPS : | 50-24175 | |
GNIS ID : | 1462091 | |
Website : | www.Essex.org |
Essex is a Town in Chittenden County of the State of Vermont in the United States , with 19,587 inhabitants (census of 2010).
geography
Geographical location
Essex is centrally located in Chittenden County, around 12 km east of Lake Champlain and around 22 km west of Mount Mansfield on the western edge of the Green Mountains . The Indian Brook Reservoir is the largest lake in the area of Town. To the south, the Winooski River forms the border with Burlington to the east and Williston to the west. The area of the town is flat, the highest point is the 294 m high Saxon Hill
Neighboring communities
All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.
- North: Westford , 4.8 miles
- Northeast: Underhill , 20.8 km
- East: Jericho , 7.8 miles
- South: Williston , 2.7 mi
- Southwest: South Burlington , 8 mi
- West: Colchester , 10 miles
- Northwest: Milton , 6.6 mi
City structure
The main settlement in the Town of Essex is Essex Junction . After Essex Junction was elevated to Village on November 15, 1892 , Essex Center became the town's second center.
climate
The mean mean temperature in Essex ranges from −7.8 ° C (18 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 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
After the official conquest of the area on June 7, 1763, the settlement began hesitantly; only ten years later did the first settlers settle here permanently. From 1784 the population grew rapidly, benefiting from the fertile, moderately hilly land, the watercourses that were well suited for the construction of mills and the forestry possibilities. The then settlement center was at Essex Center, but moved to Hubes Falls, now Essex Junction , when a train station was built there in 1850. This station became the junction of several railway lines in 1853, which led to a high level of awareness and easy accessibility of the place.
A dispute over the need for sidewalks and sewers for Essex Junction, which the residents of the surrounding area did not want to pay, led to the economic independence of the place as a village in 1892. The remaining agricultural town was thus cut off from its business center. A multi-day agricultural fair was set up in Essex Center, the second main town in the area, in 1913, but moved to Essex Junction in 1922 and is held there annually to this day under the name "Champlain Valley Exposition".
Efforts have been made since 1955 to bring the two areas together again, but so far such a union has always been rejected by one of the two sides in several votes. A vote in 2006 in which a majority from both areas voted in favor of a merger was overturned immediately by another new election forced by a referendum in Essex Junction.
Population development
Census Results - Town of Essex, Vermont | ||||||||||
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year | 1700 | 1710 | 1720 | 1730 | 1740 | 1750 | 1760 | 1770 | 1780 | 1790 |
Residents | 354 | |||||||||
year | 1800 | 1810 | 1820 | 1830 | 1840 | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 |
Residents | 729 | 957 | 1089 | 1664 | 1824 | 2052 | 1906 | 2022 | 2104 | 2013 |
year | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 |
Residents | 2203 | 2714 | 2449 | 2876 | 3059 | 3931 | 7090 | 10,951 | 14,392 | 16,498 |
year | 2000 | 2010 | 2020 | 2030 | 2040 | 2050 | 2060 | 2070 | 2080 | 2090 |
Residents | 18,626 | 19,587 |
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Essex is well connected to Vermont's transportation routes due to its peripheral location in the Burlington metropolitan area . Burlington International Airport is six kilometers south-east ; Interstate 89 passes seven kilometers south and connects Essex to the west with New York State and east to the centers of New England and the east coast. Vermont Route 12 connects Essex with the ski resorts of Jericho and Underhill, Vermont Route 128 leads to the northern towns of Franklin County and the Canadian border.
Public facilities
There is no hospital in Essex. The University of Vermont Medical Center , Burlington, is the closest hospital.
education
Essex and Westford are part of the Chittenden Central Supervisory Union . There are two school districts in Essex , the Essex Town School District and the Essex Junction School District
The Essex Junction School District is part of the Chittenden County Supervisory Union and includes Essex High School , Summit Street School , Fleming School , Albert D. Lawton School , Hiawatha School , and the Center for Technology, Essex and Westford School .
For Essex Town School District include the Essex Elementary , Founders Memorial School and Essex Middle School . The Essex High School as a secondary school visiting students from the Town of Essex, also from South Hero, Grand Isle, North Hero and Georgia, but not students from Essex Junction, Westford, or Isle La Motte. These attend the Westford School .
The Essex Free Library is part of the Town of Essex and is located on Browns River Road. The Brownell Library is in Essex Junction . It was founded in 1897. A donation from the businessman Samul Brownell enabled a new building to be built in the 1920s.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- William B. Castle (1814–1972), politician, Mayor of Cleveland
literature
- Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 68 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 1 . Burlington 1867, p. 778 ff .
- Francis Smith Eastman: A History of Vermont, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time . Holbrook and Fessenden, Brattleboro '1828 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Community website
- Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
- Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from August 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Essex in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed 19 April 2012
- ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
- ↑ Saxon Hill on Peakery.com , accessed on June 3, 2017
- ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
- ^ Essex on the City Daty portal , accessed June 1, 2017
- ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
- ↑ Central Supervisory Union ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 9, 2017
- ^ Schools in Essex Town School District , accessed June 3, 2017
- ↑ a b Schools in Essex Junction School District , accessed June 3, 2017
- ^ Essex Free Library , accessed June 3, 2017
- ^ Brownell Library , accessed June 3, 2017.