Millinocket

Millinocket
Nickname : Magic City
Millinocket
Location in Maine
Millinocket
Basic data
Foundation :	March 16, 1901
State :	United States
State :	Maine
County :	Penobscot County
Coordinates :	45 ° 39 ′  N , 68 ° 41 ′  W Coordinates: 45 ° 39 ′  N , 68 ° 41 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	4,506 (as of 2010)
Population density :	109.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	47.19 km 2  (approx. 18 mi 2 ) of which 41.31 km 2  (approx. 16 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	107 m
Postal code :	04462
Area code :	+1 207
FIPS :	23-45810
GNIS ID :	0582596
Website :	www.millinocket.org
Mayor :	Gene Conlogue
East Branch Penobscot River

Millinocket is a town in Penobscot County in the state of Maine in the United States . In 2010 there were 4506 inhabitants in 2586 households on an area of ​​47.19 km².

geography

Geographical location

Millinocket is located near a lake district on the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains at an altitude of around 120 to 125  m . The small town is traversed by the Millinocket Stream and framed by Pemadumcook Lake in the west and Dolby Pond in the east. The area is drained by the western arm of the Penobscot River .

About 40 km to the northwest rises Maine's highest mountain, Mount Katahdin , in the middle of Baxter State Park . Also about 40 km away, but to the west, is Maine's largest lake, Moosehead Lake .

Neighboring communities

The next largest city is Old Town , about 45 km north. Closer and linked by a joint business development project are East Millinocket (approximately 10 km) and Medway (approximately 15 km) east on or on the way to Interstate 95 . The next noteworthy settlement to the west is Norcross, about 7 kilometers away .

City structure

In Millinocket there is only one settlement area with the Village Millinocket .

climate

The mean mean temperature in Millinocket is between -11.1 ° C (12 ° 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 snowfalls between October and May are up to two and a half meters, more than 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

Millinocket was founded on March 16, 1901 on the site of a farm that had been operated since 1830 by the settler Thomas Fowler, his wife and their eight children. Adjacent to the farm was a settlement of the Abenaki Indians, from whom the name of the city comes: Millinocket means “many islands in the river” in their language. The reason for the city's foundation was the construction of a dam and two paper mills by the Great Northern Paper Company , which had been built on this site from 1899. The workers there needed a settlement in the sparsely inhabited forest landscape.

As the local center of the paper industry, Millinocket assumed widespread deforestation in the surrounding area, from which the area has gradually recovered since the end of radical logging and the beginning of reforestation in the 1960s. The reason for this approach was not for environmental reasons, but the increasing tourism, the Millinocket as the central supply point for the nearby Baxter State Park with the highest mountain of the Main, Mount Katahdin , and the fish-rich lake district with the largest lake, the Moosehead Lake .

The decline of the paper industry and the reduced deforestation led to the bankruptcy of the Great Northern Paper Company in 2003 and thus to the dismissal of the approximately 600 employees of the paper mills at the time. Since then, the city has quickly and successfully converted its offer to tourism and related services. Millinocket currently (2006) does not show any significant unemployment figures.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Newport, Maine
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents		3368	4528	5830	6223	5890	7453	7742	7567	6956
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	5203	4506

Culture and sights

Museums

In addition to the Millinocket Town Museum , which presents the city's history, the Millinocket Antique Snowmobile Museum opens on the weekends of the winter season , in which the development of the snowmobiles is shown using 21 old specimens and a number of old photos. It is the only museum of its kind in the United States.

Buildings

At Millinocket, seven archaeological sites have been listed and listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The location of these sites is not disclosed.

Sports

The golf course of the Hillcrest Golf Club is located in the middle of the city.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Millinocket is well connected to the outside world via Interstate 95 , which passes about 15 km to the east. The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad , which runs through the town, is a pure freight connection. Even at the "Millinocket Municipal Airport", which is located directly on the southern outskirts, only cargo planes operate.

media

Millinocket has published two weekly newspapers: since 2002 the “Magic City Morning Star”, which belongs to the “Maine Free Press, LLC” group, and the “Katahdin Press”, which was created in 2005 through the merger of the “Katahdin Times” and “Community Press” .

Public facilities

• The local public hospital: Millinocket Regional Hospital
• The City Library: Millinocket Memorial Library
• The public business development center: Millinocket Area Growth & Investment Council

education

The city operates three schools that cover normal school education up to grade 12; further studies must be carried out abroad. For 2004, 256 primary school students (up to 5th grade), 195 middle school students (6th - 8th grade) and 278 high school students (9th to 12th grade) are expelled from the school authorities.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• George F. Carrier (1918–2002), Professor of Applied Mathematics
• Joseph John Gerry (* 1928), Former Bishop of Portland
• Marc Macaulay (born 1957), actor
• Mike Michaud (* 1955), politician

Web links

Commons : Millinocket, Maine  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Administrative data and official contacts on the central server for Maine (in English)
• Location and weather data and codes for nearby airports (in English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Millinocket in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed March 23, 2019
2. ↑ Maine 2010 Census Results ; official publication of the Census Authority, (English; PDF; 32.5 MB)
3. ↑ Millinocket, Maine. In: mainegenealogy.net. Retrieved March 23, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Millinocket, Maine (ME 04462) 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 March 23, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Population 1910–2010 according to census results