Ira (Vermont)
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Basic data | ||
Foundation : | October 12, 1780 | |
State : | United States | |
State : | Vermont | |
County : | Rutland County | |
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 |
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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 | ||||||||||
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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
- 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
- ^ Ira in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed October 1, 2014
- ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
- ↑ Entry of Herrick Mountain on peakery.com (English)
- ↑ Entry of Edmunds Peak on peakery.com (English)
- ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
- ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
- ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results