Fairlee (Vermont)

Fairlee
Town Hall from Fairlee
Location in Vermont
Fairlee
Basic data
Foundation :	September 5, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orange County
Coordinates :	43 ° 55 ′  N , 72 ° 11 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 55 ′  N , 72 ° 11 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	977 (as of 2010)
Population density :	18.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	55.0 km 2  (approx. 21 mi 2 ) of which 52.3 km 2  (approx. 20 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	288 m
Postal code :	05045
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-25675
GNIS ID :	1462095
Website :	fairleevt.org

Fairlee is a town in Orange County , Vermont , United States with 977 residents (2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Fairlee is in east Orange County, on the New Hampshire border . This is formed by the Connecticut River , which is the border river between Vermont and New Hampshire. Centrally in Fairlee is Lake Morey and in the southwest of Lake Fairlee . The surface is hilly. The highest point is the 524 m high Bald Top in the Fairlee Town Forest. Fairlee is located in central Vermont on a plateau of the Green Mountains , the so-called Upper Valley .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Bradford 2.5 mi
• East: Orford, New Hampshire , 8.3 miles
• South: Thetford , 5.1 mi
• West: West Fairlee , 2.8 miles

climate

The mean mean temperature in Fairlee ranges from −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 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

Fairlee about 1907

Benning Wentworth awarded the Grant for Fairlee on September 9, 1761 to Josiah Chauncey, Joseph Hubbard, and others. The Fairlee Grant was part of the New Hampshire Grants . It also included the area of ​​what is now the Town of West Fairlee. The settlement started in 1766, the first settler in Fairlee was John Baldwin. In 1797 the western part was split off and the town of West Fairlee was founded. The border between the towns runs north-south and ran through the center of the original town.

In 1809, Samuel Moray put pike from a lake in Rumnay, New Hampshire, into Lake Morey , which was named after him. Shortly thereafter, the Vermont government passed an edict banning lake fishing for two years. This allowed a stable population to develop.

The Fairlee Railroad Depot was built in 1848. It is a single storey timber frame building with a simple structure. It is located in the Village of Fairlee and is on the Boston & Maine Railroad . The building has not been in operation since 1972.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Fairlee, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										463
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	386	983	1143	656	644	575	549	416	469	398
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	438	438	459	456	535	571	569	604	770	883
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	967	977

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Interstate 91 leads through the town in a north-south direction from Bradford in the north to Thetford in the south. To the east of the interstate, US Highway 5 also runs in a north-south direction. The Vermont Route 224 branches off from Highway west to West Fairlee. The White River Junction – Lennoxville railway had a stop in Fairlee.

Public facilities

There's no hospital in Fairlee. The Gifford Medical Center in Randolph or the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover are the nearest hospitals.

education

Fairlee is part of the Rivendell Interstate School District , which includes schools in Vermont and New Hampshire. In Fairlee is the Samuel Morey Elementary School , with classes from pre-kindergarten to sixth grade. The school is attended by approximately 175 students from the Towns of Orford, New Hampshire and Fairlee, Vermont.

The Fairlee Public Library is located in Fairlee . The library is on Highway 5. Founded in 1894, it started with 182 books, 103 of which were donated by the State of Vermont and 79 privately.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• George W. Morrison (1809–1888), politician, member of the US House of Representatives

Personalities who have worked on site

• Richard W. Mallary (1929–2011), politician, member of the US House of Representatives
• Samuel Morey (1762–1843), inventor, worked on the internal combustion engine and pioneer of steam shipping
• Nathaniel Niles (1741–1828), politician, member of the US House of Representatives

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 70 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 888 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

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

• Homepage of the municipality (English)
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry to VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento of 13 June 2016 Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fairlee in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed March 27, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Top soon . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Fairlee, Vermont (VT 05045) profiles: 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 March 30, 2017 (English). 
6. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
7. ^ A History and Description of New England, General and Local . AJ Coolidge, Jan 1, 1859, p. 9 ( books.google.de ).
8. ↑ Fairlee Railroad Depot. In: crjc.org. Retrieved March 30, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
10. ^ Home - Rivendell School District. In: rivendellschool.org. Retrieved March 30, 2017 (UK English). 
11. ^ Samuel Morey Elementary School - Rivendell School District. In: rivendellschool.org. Retrieved March 30, 2017 (UK English). 
12. ^ The town under the cliff; a history of Fairlee, Vermont. In: archive.org. Retrieved March 30, 2017 . 
13. ^ Fairlee Public Library. In: fairleelibrary.com. Fairlee Public Library, accessed March 30, 2017 .