Fairfax (Vermont)

Fairfax
Fairfax Covered Bridge
Location in Vermont
Fairfax
Basic data
Foundation :	August 18, 1763
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Franklin County
Coordinates :	44 ° 42 ′  N , 73 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 42 ′  N , 73 ° 0 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	4,285 (as of 2010)
Population density :	41.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	104.9 km 2  (approx. 41 mi 2 ) of which 104.1 km 2  (approx. 40 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	201 m
Postal code :	05454
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-24925
GNIS ID :	1462092
Website :	fairfax-vt.gov

Fairfax is a town in Franklin County , Vermont , United States with 4,285 residents according to the 2010 census.

geography

Geographical location

Fairfax is located in the western foothills of the Green Mountains , about 20 kilometers east of Lake Champlain and about 30 kilometers south of the border with Canada . It is located in the south of Franklin County, on the border with Chittenden County. The Lamoille River flows west along the southern border of the town. Many small streams flow through the town. In the north is the largest lake in the town, the Saint Albans Reservoir . Another lake is Silver Lake on the western border. The area of ​​the town is hilly, the highest point being the 404 m high Buck Mountain .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Fairfield , 5.3 mi
• East: Fletcher , 6.7 mi
• South: Westford , 2 miles
• West: Georgia , 9.2 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Fairfax is between −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 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

The place was released for settlement on August 18, 1763 in the course of British colonization by Benning Wentworth as part of the New Hampshire Grants and probably named after Baron Thomas Fairfax (1693–1781), a companion of George Washington . The first settler was Broadstreet Spafford with his two sons Nathan and Asa in 1783. The town's constituent assembly took place on March 22, 1787.

Fairfax residents make their living primarily from agriculture and forestry; there are no noteworthy industrial companies. Tourism is also only sparsely represented and is primarily limited to the rental of log houses in the surrounding forest areas.

religion

There are three denominational parishes in the village: one Roman Catholic and two Methodist churches .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Fairfax, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										254
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	786	1301	1359	1729	1919	2111	1987	1956	1820	1523
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1338	1318	1244	1249	1229	1129	1244	1366	1805	2486
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	3765	4285

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Interstate 89 grazes the town to the northwest . From the south-east of Cambridge, first in a westerly direction, following the course of the Lamoille River, then from the center of Fairfax in a northerly direction to St. Albans, Vermont Route 104 runs . South of the center, Vermont Route 128 branches off to Westford, and Vermont Route 104 A branches off to the west . It continues to follow the course of the Lamoille River. There is no Amtrak station in Fairfax. The next is in St. Albans.

Public facilities

The Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans is the closest hospital for residents of the Town.

education

Fairfax is part of the Franklin West Supervisory Union along with Fletcher and Georgia. The Bellows Free Academy offers around 970 students classes from preschool through twelfth grade.

The Fairfax Community Library is housed in the Bellows Free Academy.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• George N. Dale (1834–1903), lawyer, politician, and Lieutenant Governor of Vermont

Personalities who have worked on site

• Travis Mann-Gow (* 1988), biathlete

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 69 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 2nd volume. Burlington 1870, p. 165 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

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

• Homepage of the municipality (English)
• Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from November 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fairfax in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed March 17, 2012
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Buck Mountain on Peakery.com , accessed on May 7, 2017
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Fairfax on the City Daty portal , accessed May 7, 2017
6. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
7. ↑ Franklin West Supervisory Unionn , accessed on May 7, 2017
8. ^ Bellows Free Academy , accessed May 7, 2017
9. ↑ Fairfax Community Library , accessed May 7, 2017