Johnson (Vermont)

Johnson
Johnson State College Library
Location in Vermont
Johnson
Basic data
Foundation :	January 2, 1792
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Lamoille County
Coordinates :	44 ° 39 ′  N , 72 ° 41 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 39 ′  N , 72 ° 41 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	3,446 (as of 2010)
Population density :	29.5 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	116.8 km 2  (approx. 45 mi 2 ) of which 116.8 km 2  (approx. 45 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	218 m
Postal code :	05656
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-37075
GNIS ID :	1462129
Website :	townofjohnson.com

Johnson is a town in Lamoille County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 3,446 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Johnson is centrally located in Lamoille County, in a rugged part of the Green Mountains , and is traversed by the North Branch Lamoille River in a westerly direction. The Gihon River, coming from the north, flows into it . The area of ​​the town is hilly, the highest mountain is the 636 m high Caper Hill in the southeast .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Belvidere , 2.4 miles
• Northeast: Eden , 12.5 km
• East: Hyde Park , 8.5 mi
• South: Morristown , 4 miles
• Southwest: Cambridge , 7.5 mi
• Northwest: Waterville , 5.3 mi

City structure

The main settlement in Town Johnson is Village Johnson .

climate

The mean mean temperature in Johnson is between −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 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

Power House Covered Bridge

The first grant for the area was made around 1780 to a man named Brown, one of the earliest settlers in Jericho . Brown moved his family to the area and named the town Brownville . In the autumn of 1780 he and his family were captured by Indians, taken to Canada and sold there to the British. Before he could return, the grant was reassigned because Brown had not yet paid the fees. The Grant for Johnson was given to Samuel William Johnson and others on February 27, 1782. This was only confirmed by the governor much later, on January 2, 1792. According to Brown, the first settler in 1784 was Samuel Eaton.

The Lamoille, but especially the Gihon River, offered good locations for mills, so that several mills were quickly built. The first mill was by the falls north of the Power House Bridge. The wool mill was built in 1836. In 1856 Johnson got part of the land of the Town Sterling and in 1894 the Village Johnson was declared a incorporated village . Today the town and village are separate administrative units.

The town's economic basis changed from agriculture and forestry through the adjacent ski areas in Stowe and Cambridge to tourism. Another great employer is Johnson State College and in 1984 the Vermont Studio Center was founded.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Johnson, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										93
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	341	494	778	1079	1410	1381	1526	1558	1495	1462
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1391	1526	1478	1378	1420	1527	1478	1927	2581	3156
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	3274	3446

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The community is served by Vermont Route 15 , which runs along the Lamoille River in a west-east direction, from Waterville in the west to Hyde Park in the east, and Vermont Route 100C , which branches off Vermont Route 15 to the north .

Public facilities

There's no hospital in Johnson. The closest hospital is Copley Hospital in Morrisville.

education

Johnson is part of the Lamoille North Supervisory Union with Belvidere, Cambridge, Eden, Hyde Park and Waterville . The Johnson Elementary School is located on College Hill, near the State Colleges. It offers school classes from kindergarten to sixth grade.

The Johnson State College is a public university. Around 1800 students are enrolled at the university. It's a so-called Liberal Arts College.

The Vermont Studio Center was founded in Johnson in 1984. It is a non-profit organization and offers a residency program for visual artists and writers. 52 artists and writers find accommodation for one to three months and a variety of media, cultures and age groups are brought together.

The Johnson Public Central Library is located on Library Drive in Johnson.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Julian Scott (1846–1901), drummer in the Civil War and painter
• Charles H. Sheldon (1840–1898), politician and governor of the state of South Dakota
• Charles H. Stearns (1854–1936), politician and Lieutenant Governor of Vermont

Personalities who have worked on site

• Hayden Carruth (1921–2008), poet and literary critic

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 99 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 669 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Johnson, Vermont  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Homepage of the community
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from September 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johnson in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed April 23, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ^ Caper Hill . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Johnson, Vermont (VT 05656) 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 April 23, 2017 (English). 
6. ^ The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military . Miss AM Hemenway, January 1, 1871 ( books.google.de ).
7. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
8. ↑ ^{a b} About - Johnson, VT . In: Johnson, VT . February 18, 2014 ( townofjohnson.com ).
9. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
10. ↑ Home. In: lnsu.org. LNSU, accessed April 23, 2017 . 
11. ^ Johnson Elementary School. In: jesvt.org. Retrieved April 23, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Vermont's Premier Public Liberal Arts College | Johnson State College, Vermont | Johnson State College. In: jsc.edu. Retrieved April 23, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Home. In: vermontstudiocenter.org. Vermont Studio Center, accessed April 23, 2017 (American English). 
14. ^ Johnson Public Library. In: wordpress.com. Johnson Public Library, accessed April 23, 2017 (American English).