Ira (Vermont)

Ira
Baptist Church in Ira
Location in Vermont
Ira
Basic data
Foundation :	October 12, 1780
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Rutland County
Coordinates :	43 ° 34 ′  N , 73 ° 6 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 34 ′  N , 73 ° 6 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	432 (as of 2010)
Population density :	7.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	59.0 km 2  (approx. 23 mi 2 ) of which 59.0 km 2  (approx. 23 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	420 m
Postal code :	05777
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-35425
GNIS ID :	1462123
Website :	www.TownOfIra.com

Ira is a municipality ( town ) in Rutland County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 432 inhabitants (according to census 2010).

geography

Geographical location

The town of Ira is located in the western ridges of the Green Mountains and consists largely of wooded ridges. The main settlement Ira is located in the southwest of the area in the valley of the Ira Brook , a small river. This valley is partly used for agriculture; this is also where the area's only major road runs. Important elevations are Herrick Mountain at 827 m (2713 ft ), and Edmunds Peak at 725 m (2379 ft).

Neighboring communities

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

• North: West Rutland , 2.6 mi
• East: Clarendon , 7.5 miles
• South: Tinmouth , 3.2 miles
• Southwest: Middletown Springs , 2.7 mi
• West: Poultney , 6.4 mi
• Northwest: Castleton , 5.1 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Ira is between −6.7 ° C (20 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 21.1 ° C (70 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. The snowfalls between October and May are up to 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 in the USA.

history

The area was settled early. When exactly is not known. On May 31, 1779, the constituent city assembly took place. However, there was never an official settlement permit ( charter ) that legitimized this establishment. This was made up for on October 12, 1780. The Vermont Senate formally handed over the settlement order to Ira Allen , who also gave the town its name, and 39 other land buyers who, however, mostly did not pay the purchase price. Allen took ownership, although apparently there was no legal or economic basis for doing so, as the shares had never been transferred to him. Therefore in 1790 the State of Vermont, in the agreement with the State of New York for the ownership rights to the New Hampshire Grants and the independence of Vermont, had to pay $ 30,000 for these unsold areas to New York.

The smallpox epidemic of 1813, which raged across the area, left 16 or 17 dead. The exact number is not known.

After that, no more significant events are documented.

Religions

The Baptist parish was founded in 1783 and is the only church in the town.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Ira, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										312
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	473	519	498	442	430	400	422	413	479	421
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	350	286	295	287	248	232	220	284	354	426
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	455	432

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont State Route 133 binds to the main settlement area of the Town in the southeast of the area to the places Middletown Springs in the south and Rutland in the northeast. The Vermont State Route 4 , which runs through the area to the north from east to west and connects Castleton with Roland, accompanied a highway through sparsely populated area in the valley of Castleton River . Train stations with Amtrak trains can be found in Rutland (approx. 12 km away) and in Fair Hafen (approx. 25 km away).

Public facilities

Apart from the usual municipal administrations, there are no public institutions in Ira. The closest hospital is the Rutland Regional Medical Center in Rutland .

education

Ira does not run its own schools; Students must be educated in the surrounding communities, especially in Rutland.

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 94 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Simon L. Peck: History of Ira, Vermont . The Tuttle Company, Rutland 1926. Online version

Web links

Commons : Ira, Vermont  - Collection of Images, 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 January 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ira in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed October 1, 2014
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Entry of Herrick Mountain on peakery.com (English)
4. ↑ Entry of Edmunds Peak on peakery.com (English)
5. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
6. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
7. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results