Ferdinand (Vermont)

Ferdinand
Ferdinand Location in Vermont
Basic data
Foundation :	October 12, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Essex County
Coordinates :	44 ° 44 ′  N , 71 ° 47 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 44 ′  N , 71 ° 47 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	32 (as of 2010)
Population density :	0.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	52.8 km 2  (approx. 20 mi 2 ) of which 52.6 km 2  (approx. 20 mi 2 ) land
Height :	590 m
Postal code :	05905
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-25975
GNIS ID :	1462097
Website :	http://Vermont.gov

Ferdinand is an unincorporated town in Essex County in the US state of Vermont . At the last census in 2010 it had a total of 32 inhabitants. Ferdinand never became formally a town with its own administration as the population was never big enough. The town is administered by the Unified Towns & Gores of Essex County . It is part of the Berlin Micropolitan Statistical Area .

geography

Geographical location

Ferdinand is centrally located in Essex County . The Nulhegan River flows through the town in the north in an easterly direction, and there are other small streams that flow into the Nulhegan River. The Paul Stream drains the south of the town . There are several small lakes in the Town area, the largest being South American Pond and Mile Pond . The surface is hilly, the highest point being the 967 m high Seneca Mountain Middle Peak .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Lewis , 4.8 mi
• Northeast: Brunswick , 8 mi
• Southeast: Maidstone , 10 mi
• South: Granby , 4 miles
• Southwest: East Haven , 1.7 mi
• West: Newark , 10 mi
• Northwest: Brighton , 6.2 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Ferdinand 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

Ferdinand was founded on October 13, 1761 with an area of ​​23,000 acres (about 60 km²) as one of the New Hampshire Grants by Benning Wentworth . He named the town after a close relative of King George III. , Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) .

The Portland – Island Pond railway ran through Ferdinand with a stop in the Wenlock settlement. There was a post office in Wenlock, which closed in 1923. Ferdinand is one of five towns, the others being Averill, Glastenbury, Lewis and Somerset, in Vermont, which have never been populated to any great extent. The town was never organized.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Ferdinand, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents							34	33	40	73
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	41	213	106	18th	17th	10	16	14th	12	23
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	33	32

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

In a west-east direction, Vermont State Route 105 runs through the northern part of the town from Brighton to Brunswick. There are only a few other streets in Ferdinand.

Public facilities

The North Country Hospital & Health Care in Newport is the closest hospital to the town's residents.

education

In Ferdinand there is no school and no other infrastructural facilities. These are available in neighboring communities. The nearest school and library are in Brighton and Brunswick.

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III p 71 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for the period up to 1840)
• Benjamin Homer Hall: History of Eastern Vermont . D. Appleton & Co., New York 1865 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand, Vermont  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
• Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from April 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ferdinand in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed May 23, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ UTG, Essex County , accessed May 30, 2017
4. ↑ Seneca Mountain Middle Peak on Peakery.com , accessed May 23, 2017
5. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Ferdinand on the City Daty portal , accessed on May 23, 2017
7. ↑ Ferdinand on Virtual Vermont , accessed May 23, 2017
8. ↑ Population 1860–2010 according to census results