Lewis (Vermont)
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Location in Vermont
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | June 29, 1762 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Vermont | ||
| County : | Essex County | ||
| Coordinates : | 44 ° 52 ′ N , 71 ° 44 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 0 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 0 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 103 km 2 (approx. 40 mi 2 ) of which 103 km 2 (approx. 40 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 442 m | ||
| Postal code : | 05846 | ||
| Area code : | +1 802 | ||
| FIPS : | 50-39775 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1462134 | ||
| Website : | http://Vermont.gov | ||
Lewis is an unincorporated town in Essex County in the US state of Vermont . It had no residents at the last census in 2010. Lewis formally became a town with its own administration, but the town was never constituted. The town is administered by the Unified Towns & Gores of Essex County . It is part of the Berlin Micropolitan Statistical Area .
geography
Geographical location
Lewis is in north Essex County. The Nulhegan River flows through the northeast corner of the town in a southerly direction, and there are other small streams. There are several lakes in the town area, the largest being Lewis Pond to the west of the town. The surface of the northern part is very hilly, one of the highest elevations in the central part is the 776 m high Lewis Mountain . The southern part is rather swampy.
Neighboring communities
All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.
- North: Norton , 8.4 km
- Northeast: Averill , 5.5 mi
- East: Lemington , 10.9 miles
- Southeast: Bloomfield , 7.2 mi
- South: Ferdinand , 7.7 km
- South West: Brighton , 9.7 mi
- Northwest: Averys Gore , 5.7 mi
climate
The mean mean temperature in Lewis is between -11.7 ° C (11 ° 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
Lewis was founded on June 29, 1762 as one of the New Hampshire Grants by Benning Wentworth . The grant was one of several that Samuel Averill received along with other speculators. This town was named after Timothy Lewis, who was one of the grant recipients for neighboring Wenlock, the northern part of the town of Ferdinand and Maidstone.
The town was not really settled, there was never a post office or settlement. In its history there were only eight inhabitants in the 1900 census. There was never a constituent assembly of the town either.
Population development
| Census Results - Town of Lewis, Vermont | |
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| year | 1900 |
| Residents | 8th |
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Lewis does not open up any major road, and there are few small roads in the Town area.
Public facilities
The North Country Hospital & Health Care in Newport is the closest hospital to the town's residents.
education
There is no school and no other infrastructural facilities in Lewis. These are available in neighboring communities.
literature
- Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III p 103 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for the period up to 1840)
- Benjamin Homer Hall: History of Eastern Vermont . D. Appleton & Co., New York 1865 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
- Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from July 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lewis in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed May 25, 2017
- ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
- ↑ UTG, Essex County , accessed May 30, 2017
- ↑ Lewis Sable Mountain on Peakery.com , accessed on May 25, 2017
- ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Lewis on the City Daty portal , accessed May 25, 2017
- ↑ a b Lewis on Virtual Vermont , accessed May 25, 2017
- ↑ Population 1900 according to census results
