Glastenbury

Glastenbury
Glastenbury Location in Vermont
Basic data
Foundation :	August 20, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Bennington County
Coordinates :	42 ° 58 ′  N , 73 ° 5 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 58 ′  N , 73 ° 5 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	8 (as of 2010)
Population density :	0.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	115.2 km 2  (approx. 44 mi 2 ) of which 115.2 km 2  (approx. 44 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	1117 m
Postal code :	05262
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-27962
GNIS ID :	1462102
Website :	http://vermont.gov/

Glastenbury is an unincorporated town in Bennington County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 8 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census). The town is administered by a state supervisor.

geography

Geographical location

Glastenbury is centrally located in Bennington County, in the Green Mountains at an elevation of 1,117 m. There are only a few small rivers in the town and no lakes. The area of ​​the town is very hilly and the highest point is the 1,140 m high Glastenbury Mountain , which is centrally located in the town .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Sunderland , 2.2 mi
• Northeast: Stratton , 10 mi
• East: Somerset , 7.1 miles
• Southeast: Searsburg , 7.9 mi
• South: Woodford , 1.4 mi
• Southwest: Bennington , 9.7 mi
• West: Shaftsbury , 9.6 miles
• Northwest: Arlington , 10.9 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Glastenbury ranges from −6.7 ° C (20 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 20.1 ° C (68 ° F) in July. This means that the place is around 8 ° C cooler compared to the long-term mean in the USA, but almost 2 ° C warmer than the Vermont mean. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

The Grant for Glastenbury was awarded on August 20, 1761 as part of the New Hampshire Grants by Benning Wentworth . It comprised 28,424 acres (11,500 hectares ). The name goes back to the British Glastonbury . Settlement started very slowly, as the area of ​​the town is very hilly, very high and only conditionally suitable for arable farming or cattle breeding. In the first census in 1791, 34 people belonging to six families lived in the town. The mortality rate for children and women was high, so that the population did not really increase. The elevation to the town took place in 1834.

Glastenbury experienced a small boom when charcoal was produced after the Civil War . The Bennington tram goes back to the Bennington and Glastenbury Railroad, Mining and Manufacturing Company , which was founded by a group of men to transport wood and charcoal from Glastenbury. The railroad reached the coal piles in the southern part of Glastenbury, but by 1889 resources were exhausted and a hotel and casino were built along the route as a tourist attraction. After the route was destroyed by a flood in 1898, tourism collapsed.

The population continued to decline and in 1937 Glastenbury's rights to an independent town were withdrawn because the administrative business could no longer be carried out. Today Glastenbury is an unincorporated town. It is administered by a supervisor appointed by the state.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Glastenbury, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										34
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	48	76	48	52	53	52	47	119	241	181
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	48	29	40	7th	4th	1	0	0	3	7th
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	16	8th

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

US Highway 7 runs along the northwestern border of the town of Glastenbury (in a north-south direction). The east of the town is reached from Vermont State Route 325 . There are hardly any roads in the area of ​​the town.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Glastenbury. The closest is Southwestern Medical Center in Bennington.

education

There is no school in Glastenbury. The closest school is Shaftsbury Elementary School in Shaftsbury.

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 74 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 1st volume. Burlington 1867.

Web links

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

• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Glastenbury in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed July 11, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ ^{a b} UNORGANIZED TOWN - GLASTENBURY | Office of Governor Phil Scott. In: vermont.gov. governor.vermont.gov, accessed July 11, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Glastenbury Mountain on Peakery.com  ( 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 July 9, 2017  
5. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
6. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
7. ↑ ^{a b} Glastenbury, Vermont, New England, USA. (No longer available online.) In: virtualvermont.com. Archived from the original on August 28, 2017 ; Retrieved July 11, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results