Kirby (Vermont)

Kirby
South Kirby School House
Location in Vermont
Kirby
Basic data
Foundation :	October 27, 1790
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Caledonia County
Coordinates :	44 ° 31 ′  N , 71 ° 56 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 31 ′  N , 71 ° 56 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	493 (as of 2010)
Population density :	7.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	63.2 km 2  (approx. 24 mi 2 ) of which 63.1 km 2  (approx. 24 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	478 m
Postal code :	05824
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-37900
GNIS ID :	1462130
Website :	kirbyvermont.org

Kirby is a town in Caledonia County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 493 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Kirby is in northeast Vermont, in the foothills of the Green Mountains . It's hilly but not rugged. There are no large bodies of water in the area of ​​the town, but many small tributaries of the Moose River and the Passumpsic River have their source here. There are only smaller lakes in the town area. The largest is Kirby Pond . The surface of the town is hilly, the highest point is the 622 m high Sugar Hill .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Burke , 2.2 miles
• Northeast: Victory , 7.9 mi
• Southeast: Concord , 6.1 mi
• South: Waterford , 3.2 miles
• Southwest: St. Johnsbury , 5.4 mi
• Northwest: Lyndon , 5.8 mi

City structure

A main settlement or a town center does not and has never existed. Kirby's houses are widely scattered and very isolated. For example, Kirby was never given its own post office; the residents received and still receive their mail, depending on the location, from the post offices of the surrounding towns.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Kirby is between −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 20.0 ° C (68 ° 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 area of ​​today's Kirby lies in the Green Mountains and, because no good arable land was suspected there, was only released for settlement after the establishment of the Vermont Republic . On October 20, 1786, the government issued a grant (an offer to sell) for an area of ​​45.7 km² (11,284 acres ), which was given to a group of buyers around Dr. Roswell Hopkins went, who received it in kind for his services on behalf of the Vermont Republic and who had it registered under the name Hopkinsville. Later the area was supplemented by a piece of land from the municipality of Burke , called Burke Tongue. This increased the municipal area by 10.2 km² (2527 acres).

The exact time of the first settlement is unknown; the first documented immigration took place in 1792. The settlement and reclamation proceeded slowly at first; The first birth took place in Kirby in 1802, and the first wedding in 1804. The constituent city assembly met on August 8, 1807.

In 1808 the town was renamed Kirby, although the name can no longer be derived today. The unexpectedly good arable and pasture areas let the population swell quickly; In 1810, more than 300 inhabitants were registered in the census. 520 settlers lived in Kirby by 1840, but after rail lines were drawn through Vermont in the second half of the 1840s, the upward trend was reversed: many residents, especially young people, migrated to the local centers and cities on the east coast, where they were were attracted by factories and large enterprises. Nothing slowed this slow migration for the next 120 years. Only with the general economic boom in Vermont and its connection to the major road systems of the USA did the development turn again around 1970. Since then, Kirby's population has almost doubled. The main economic factors are still agriculture and forestry today.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Kirby
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	20th	311	312	401	520	509	473	417	398	355
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	350	297	324	311	252	257	235	224	282	347
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	456	493

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The US Highway 2 clips the southern tip of the Town. It runs in a west-east direction and connects Kirby with St. Johnsbury in the west and Concord in the east.

Public facilities

Kirby does not have its own public facilities such as schools or a library. The closest hospital, Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital , is located in St. Johnsbury.

education

Kirby belongs to the Essex-Caledonia Supervisory Union with Concord, Granby, Guildhall, Lunenburg, Maidstone, Victory and Waterford .

There are no schools in Kirby. These are available in the Supervisory Union.

Personalities

Personalities who have worked on site

• Roswell Hopkins (1757–1829), politician and judge who served as the Vermont Secretary of State .

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 100 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 1st volume. Burlington 1867, p. 336 ff .

Web links

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

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kirby in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed October 1, 2014
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Sugar Hill on Peakery.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 11, 2017  
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Kirby on the City Daty portal , accessed June 11, 2017
6. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
7. ↑ Essex-Caledonia Supervisory Union  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 25, 2017