Jericho (Vermont)

Jericho
The "Old Red Mill"
Location in Vermont
Jericho
Basic data
Foundation :	June 7, 1763
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Chittenden County
Coordinates :	44 ° 29 ′  N , 72 ° 58 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 29 ′  N , 72 ° 58 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	5,009 (as of 2010)
Population density :	54.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	92.1 km 2  (approx. 36 mi 2 ) of which 91.7 km 2  (approx. 35 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	212 m
Postal code :	05465
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-36700
GNIS ID :	1462128
Website :	www.JerichoVT.gov

Jericho is a town in Chittenden County of the state of Vermont in the United States , with a population of 5009 (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Jericho is located in the east of Chittenden County, in the western foothills of the Green Mountains , about 18 kilometers east of the shores of Lake Champlain in the immediate vicinity of the Burlington metropolitan area . Mount Mansfield rises 15 kilometers east of the main town and serves as a state forest on the one hand and as a cross-country skiing area on the other. The most important watercourse is the Winooski River , which flows through the area of ​​the settlement from east to west and takes up the water of many small, mostly nameless tributaries that flow from the surrounding mountains. The surface of the town is slightly hilly. The highest point is the 315 m high Laisdell Hill .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Westford , 3.9 miles
• Northeast: Underhill , 5.5 mi
• Southeast: Bolton , 6.1 mi
• South: Richmond , 2.7 mi
• Southwest: Williston , 8.7 mi
• West: Essex , 7.1 miles

climate

The average temperature in Jericho ranges from −11.0 ° C (12 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 20.0 ° C (68 degrees Fahrenheit) in July. This makes the place about 2 degrees cooler compared to the long-term mean of Vermont. The snowfalls between October and May peak in January and are significantly higher than the mean snow depth in the USA. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range of values ​​in the USA, in the period from September to December it is sometimes significantly lower.

history

Jericho was proclaimed on June 7, 1763 by Benning Wentworth as part of New Hampshire with an area of ​​6 by 6 miles, corresponding to the usual 23,040 acres (about 93.2 km²) for settlement. The first settlers, three families, are mentioned for 1774, but they left the unsafe area again when the war of independence broke out. Settlement was not resumed until 1783; a first list from 1785 contains the names of six "freemen", ie men entitled to vote. The constituent community meeting took place on March 22, 1786, a representative for the Vermont Parliament was on November 29, 1786 for the first time.

By 1825, the population of the place had grown so much that the residents of Jericho built a building for a secondary school, the Jericho Academy , which did not start teaching until March 1827 and lasted until 1845. While the primary schools only offered lessons in the winter half of the year in the first decades of settlement, the Academy gave lessons all year round.

The area was sparsely populated and was primarily used for forestry and forestry. The many watercourses that arise in the area around Mount Mansfield and flow into the Winooski River led to the construction of a large number of water mills, which were initially mainly used as sawmills, later also for small industries of all kinds. One of them, the "Red Mill" from 1848, is preserved in the center of Jericho and in 1972 was declared a National Historic Site .

Since the 1930s there have been efforts to develop the place into a tourist center. Back then, in the course of combating the effects of the were world economic crisis at Mount Mansfield, Vermont's highest mountain, campsites and huts created. Together with the nearby Burlington International Airport and the well-developed road network here, Jericho has developed into a winter sports center, especially since the 1970s. Large biathlon competitions have been held in the Jericho area since the late 1990s .

Jericho station was on the Burlington – Cambridge Junction railway, which operated from 1877 to 1938 .

Religions

In the early days of settlement, almost all of New England's major churches were represented by believers in Jericho. Above all, be Congregationalists , Baptists , Universalists and Methodists called, built up their own in communities and partly own churches. Today two Methodist churches in particular are still active.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Jericho, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										381
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	728	1185	1219	1654	1684	1837	1669	1757	1687	1461
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1373	1307	1138	1091	1077	1135	1425	2343	3575	4302
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	5015	5009

Culture and sights

Sports

Jericho is known as a winter sports area; Several large biathlon competitions have already been carried out within its limits. These include the 1998 Biathlon Junior World Championships , the 2001 and 2003 Biathlon Military World Championships , the North American Biathlon Rollerski Cup 2010 and, in general, the annual Biathlon NorAm Cup races .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The main road link Jericho is the Vermont State Route 15 , which crosses the area from east to west and connects the place with Burlington in the east and Hardwick in the west. It is supplemented by two airfields for private planes. The nearest public transport airport is in Burlington. The closest Amtrak stations are Essex Junction (7 miles) and Waterbury-Stowe in Waterbury (17 miles).

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Jericho. The University of Vermont Medical Center , Burlington, is the closest hospital.

education

Jericho belongs to the Mount Mansfield Modified Union School District with Bolton, Huntington, Richmond and Underhill .

In Jericho, Jericho Elementary School offers education from kindergarten through fourth grade. The Browns River Middle School offers classes from the fifth to the eighth grade. The high school degree can be taken at Mount Mansfield Union High School .

Nearby colleges are in Colchester, Winooski, and Burlington; the nearest university campus is also in Burlington.

The Jericho Town Library was founded in 1899. It is located in Jericho Center. In 1915 she moved to the Jericho Academy building , which was relocated in 1955 for a new road.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Wilson Bentley (1865–1931), farmer, photographer and snow researcher
• George Bliss (1813–1868), politician, Member of the US House of Representatives for Ohio
• Amy Dombroski (1987-2013), cyclist
• Robert T. King (1917–1970), politician, State Auditor from Vermont

Personalities who have worked on site

• Martin Chittenden (1763–1840), politician governor of the US state of Vermont.
• Asahel Peck (1803–1879), politician and governor of Vermont. Run a farm in Jericho.
• David Allen Smalley (1809–1877), politician. Postmaster and lawyer in town between 1831 and 1836

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842 ( limited preview in Google book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 1st volume. Burlington, Vermont 1867, p. 829 ff .

Web links

Commons : Jericho (town), Vermont  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• City homepage
• Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
• Entry on VirtualVermont.com ( Memento from May 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jericho in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed October 1, 2015
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Laisdell Hill on Peakery.com , accessed on June 3, 2017
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
6. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
7. ↑ http://www.city-data.com/airports/Jericho-Vermont.html
8. ^ Mount Mansfield Modified Union School District , accessed June 3, 2017
9. ^ Jericho Elementary School , accessed June 3, 2017
10. ^ Browns River Middle School , accessed June 3, 2017
11. Jump up ↑ Mount Mansfield Union High School , accessed June 3, 2017
12. ^ Jericho Town Library , accessed June 3, 2017