Greensboro, Vermont

Greensboro
Caspian Lake, Greensboro
Location in Vermont
Greensboro
Basic data
Foundation :	August 20, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orleans County
Coordinates :	44 ° 35 ′  N , 72 ° 18 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 35 ′  N , 72 ° 18 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	762 (as of 2010)
Population density :	7.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	102.0 km 2  (approx. 39 mi 2 ) of which 97.8 km 2  (approx. 38 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	587 m
Postal code :	05841
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-30175
GNIS ID :	1462109
Website :	www.greensborovt.org

Greensboro is a town in Orleans County in the state of Vermont in the United States with 762 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Greensboro is in the south of Orleans County. There are several lakes in the area of ​​the town. The largest is the centrally located Caspian Lake . The Long Pond is to the north and the Horse Pond to the east . The Lake Elligo is surrounded by the Town, but does not belong to her. The Lamoille River and its tributaries flow through the town and the lakes. It flows into Lake Champlain . The surface of the town is hilly, the highest peaks are the centrally located 644 m high Barr Hill and the 634 m high Babcock Hill in the north .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Glover , 4.1 mi
• Northeast: Sheffield , 12.9 mi
• East: Wheelock , 8.9 miles
• South-east: Stannard , 8 miles
• South: Walden , 8.2 km
• Southwest: Hardwick , 4.8 mi
• West: Wolcott , 12 miles
• Northwest: Craftsbury , 6.9 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Greensboro ranges from −11.7 ° C (11 ° 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

The grant for Greensboro got on November 6, 1780 Harris Cold and 66 other owners. This was established on August 20, 1781 initially under the name Coltkiln , later the place was renamed Greensboro in honor of Timothy Green. The area was opened up by the Bayley-Hazen Military Road , which George Washington had built in 1776 in preparation for an invasion of Canada. The road reached Greensboro in 1779, but led not to Canada, but to Montgomery . The street was secured by guard houses. Two young guards were killed in an Indian raid, two more were taken to Canada and later exchanged for Indian prisoners.

The first settlers reached Greensboro in 1789. They were Ashbel and Aaron Shepaard with their wives. On March 29, 1792 the constituent city assembly took place.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Greensboro, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										19th
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	280	566	625	784	883	1008	1065	1027	1061	918
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	874	931	905	831	768	737	600	593	677	717
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	770	762

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Vermont State Route 16 runs south through the town from Glover in the north to Hardwick in the south . It follows the course of the Lamoille River.

Public facilities

Greensboro does not have its own hospital. The closest hospitals are North Country Hospital & Health Care in Newport City and Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury.

education

Greensboro is part of the Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union . The Lakeview Union School , an elementary school, is located in Greensboro .

Greensboro Free Library, around 1901

The Greensboro Free Library was first mentioned on March 30, 1843 when the Greensboro town Library was sold by Henry Blake to John L. Porter.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• George Comings (1849–1942), politician lieutenant governor of the state of Wisconsin

Personalities who have worked on site

• Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), historian, writer and environmental activist, many of his works were set in Greensboro

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 87 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

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

• Community website
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Maps from 1859 and 1878 and a historical summary
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from June 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Greensboro in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed March 12, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Barr Hill . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ^ Babcock Hill . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
5. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Greensboro, Vermont (VT 05841) profile: 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 12, 2017 (English). 
7. ↑ History | Greensboro, Vermont. In: greensborovt.org. Retrieved March 12, 2017 (American English). 
8. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( google.de ).
9. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
10. ^ Schools - Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union. In: google.com. sites.google.com, accessed March 12, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Lakeview. In: ossu.org. www.lakeview.ossu.org, accessed March 12, 2017 . 
12. ↑ History | Greensboro Free Library. In: greensborofreelibrary.org. Retrieved March 12, 2017 (American English).