Essex Junction

Essex Junction
"The Vermonter" at Essex Junction Railway Station
Location in Vermont
Essex Junction
Basic data
Foundation :	November 15, 1892
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Chittenden County
Coordinates :	44 ° 29 ′  N , 73 ° 7 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 29 ′  N , 73 ° 7 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	9,271 (as of 2010)
Population density :	753.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	12.6 km 2  (approx. 5 mi 2 ) of which 12.3 km 2  (approx. 5 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	105 m
Postcodes :	05451 to 05453
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-24400
GNIS ID :	1457378
Website :	www.EssexJunction.org

Essex Junction is a village in the town of Essex in Chittenden County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 9271 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census). Parts of the place, especially the Main Street from the train station to the city center, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places .

geography

Geographical location

Essex Junction is in southwest Chittenden County, in the Green Mountains . The Winooski River separates the Village from South Burlington and Willston . To the north is the town of Essex.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Milton , 10 miles
• Northeast: Cambridge , 17 miles
• East: Jericho , 9 km
• Southeast: Richmond , 8 miles
• South: Willston , 7 miles
• Southwest: Shelburne , 11 mi
• West: Winooski , 5.5 km
• Northwest: Colchester , 5 miles

climate

Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     48   -3 -12     41   -2 -12     54   3 -5     61   11 0     77   18th 7th     87   23 12     98   26th 15th     90   25th 14th     87   20th 10     79   13 4th     69   6th -1     51   0 -8th Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: www.weatherbase.com

Essex Junction, Vermont Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) -3.0 -2.0 3.0 11.0 18.0 23.0 26.0 25.0 20.0 13.0 6.0 0.0 O 11.7 Min. Temperature (° C) -12.0 -12.0 -5.0 0.0 7.0 12.0 15.0 14.0 10.0 4.0 -1.0 -8.0 O 2.1 Precipitation ( mm ) 48 41 54 61 77 87 98 90 87 79 69 51 Σ 842 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 9.8 11.0 12.5 14.0 15.4 16.1 15.7 14.5 13.0 11.4 10.1 9.5 O 12.8 Rainy days ( d ) 14.8 11.7 12.2 13.1 15.0 14.4 13.7 13.3 12.1 14.2 13.8 15.2 Σ 163.5 Source: www.weatherbase.com

The mean mean temperature in Essex Junction is between −7 ° C in January and 21 ° C in July. This means that the place is around 8 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA.

history

North Main Street
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

It emerged as one of the core settlements in the Essex community and was initially known as "Hubes Falls", from 1850 under the name "Painesville" (after Governor Charles Paine ). In the early 1850s, several rail lines were built through Vermont. The Windsor – Burlington railway was completed in 1849, and from 1851 a line to Rouses Point branched off in Painesville . In 1877 the Burlington – Cambridge Junction railway line was opened, which also touched this junction. The conductors of the various lines called the station "Essex Junction" ("Essex Junction") to inform passengers of the transfer options. After the financial collapse of Paines, who was the operator of one of these railway lines, the name of the station was removed from the station sign when the station building was rebuilt and "Essex Junction" was chosen instead. The place became known to travelers under this name. When the place was proclaimed as a financially responsible municipality (village) on October 15, 1892 by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont, it was determined as the official name of the place.

With the relocation of a multi-day fair established in 1913, the "Champlain Valley Exposition", from Essex Center to Essex Junction in 1922, Essex Junction became part of the economic metropolitan area of Burlington . The fair developed into a central Vermont event that still exists today. When in 1953 in neighboring Winooski , also part of the metropolitan area, around 1,000 jobs were lost when wool combing mills were closed, the affected localities, including Essex Junction, founded a joint marketing company to ensure the establishment of new industries in the metropolitan area. As a result of these efforts, IBM built a semiconductor plant at Essex Junction, which still produces microchips to this day and is Vermont's largest employer with around 6,500 jobs.

Since the 1950s, efforts have been made between Essex Junction and the surrounding area to end the administrative division of the combined community and its economic center. Simultaneous positive referendums in both administrative areas are necessary for this. The first such vote was carried out in 1958 without a uniform result. Since then, several votes have been initiated, but they have always been rejected by one of the two sides. Only the survey of November 7, 2006 resulted in mutual approval for a merger. A successful referendum by proponents of independence, which was concluded on December 6, 2006, forced a new ballot, which was carried out on January 23, 2007, again resulted in a majority for the opponents of the merger, which was then overturned. In June 2011, only the police department and the high school are under joint administration. Other important facilities such as the fire brigade , the library and the administrations of other types of schools are still separate.

religion

There are two Methodist congregations and a branch of the United Church of Christ in the village .

Population development

year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1141	1245	1410	1621	1901	2741	5340	6511	7033	8396
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	8591	9271

Essex Junction, Vermont census results

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Even today, after the extensive decline of the railways, the place is an important rail hub for Vermont with regular passenger traffic on the Central Vermont Railroad and Vermont Railway ; The Amtrak express train "The Vermonter" also stops here on its way from St. Albans to Washington, DC The other transport connections are also good: Interstate 89 runs a few kilometers south of the city. Burlington International Airport is about four kilometers southwest of town.

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 .

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

• Brian Wood (* 1972), comic book writer, illustrator and graphic designer

Personalities who have worked on site

• Brian Dubie (born 1959), politician and Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
• Guy W. Bailey (1876–1940), politician, lawyer, Vermont Secretary of State and President of the University of Vermont

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

Commons : Essex Junction, Vermont  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• City website
• Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from May 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Illustrated website about Essexunction train station

Individual evidence

1. ^ Essex Junction in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed April 19, 2012
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010  ( 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.  
4. ↑ Population 1910–2010 according to census results
5. ↑ 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  
6. ^ Schools in Essex Town School District , accessed June 3, 2017
7. ↑ ^{a b} Schools in Essex Junction School District , accessed June 3, 2017
8. ^ Essex Free Library , accessed June 3, 2017
9. ^ Brownell Library , accessed June 3, 2017.