Minot (Maine)

Minot
West Minot
Location in Maine
Minot
Basic data
Foundation :	February 18, 1802
State :	United States
State :	Maine
County :	Androscoggin County
Coordinates :	44 ° 8 ′  N , 70 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 8 ′  N , 70 ° 20 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	2,607 (as of 2010)
Population density :	34 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	77.05 km 2  (approx. 30 mi 2 ) of which 76.59 km 2  (approx. 30 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	160 m
Postcodes :	04258
Area code :	+1 207
FIPS :	23-46160
GNIS ID :	00582599
Website :	www.minotme.org

Minot is a town in Androscoggin County in the state of Maine in the United States . In 2010 there were 2607 inhabitants in 1056 households on an area of ​​77.1 km².

geography

According to the United States Census Bureau , Minot has a total area of ​​77.05 km², of which 76.59 km² is land and 0.46 km² is made up of water .

Geographical location

Minot is to the west of Androscoggin County and borders Oxford County to the west . The Little Androscoggin River forms the southern boundary of the town's area. It flows into the Androscoggin River at Auburn . There are no large lakes in the town area. The area of ​​the town is only slightly hilly, the highest point in Minot is the 280 m high Mount Prospect .

Neighboring communities

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

• Northwest: Hebron , 4 miles
• Northeast: Turner , 6.8 mi
• East: Auburn , 6.1 miles
• South: Poland , 7.2 km
• Southwest: Mechanic Falls , 4.8 mi
• West: Oxford , 9.4 miles

City structure

There are several settlement areas in Minot : Center Minot , Hackett Mills , Minot (Minot Corner) and West Minot .

climate

The mean mean temperature in Minot is between -7.2 ° C (19 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 20.6 ° C (69 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. At over five and a half meters, the snowfalls between October and May are almost 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. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

The history of Minot is closely related to the history of Poland. The original grant for the Bakerstown Plantation was given in 1765 by the Massachusetts General Court to Captain Thomas Baker and other soldiers for their service in the Battle of Quebec in 1690. Moses, Josiah and Edward Little were the first landowners in the area. The first settler was Moses Emery with his wife and daughter from Newbury , Massachusetts . At first the family lived in a log cabin by the river, later they moved to Minot Corner. The Woodman Hill area was settled in 1780 by John Allen of Gousester , Massachusetts. Seth Sampson and Eliab Washburn followed in 1789. West Minot was founded in 1781 by John Bridgham, a captain of the American Revolution . Hersey Hill was settled in 1783 and Pottle Hill in 1789. The Mechanic Falls area was first settled in 1836 by Dean Andrew of Taunton , Massachusetts.

Bakerstown Plantation became independent as Poland in 1798, from this area Minot was founded on February 18, 1802 as an independent town. The border between these towns was the Little Androscoggin River. The town was given the name in honor of Judge Minot, a member of the General Court. Mechanic Falls was founded as an independent town in this area in 1893. The former Minot part of Mechanic Falls housed a paper mill that was built in 1851, a clothes factory, a gristle mill, boot and shoe factories, a carriage workshop, and other workshops. In Minot corner there was a grist mill, a workshop for carriages and a filling plant for corn. In West Minot there were three flour mills, a sawmill, a gravel mill and a cheese factory. A section of the Grand Trunk Corporation runs through town near the river. The Portland and Rumford Falls Railway crossed with the Grand Trunk at Mechanik Falls.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Minot, Maine
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents		2020	2524	2904	3550	1734	1799	1569	1763	1355
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	808	786	726	635	674	750	780	919	1631	1664
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	2248	2607

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

In the settlement of West Minot , Maine State Route 119 coming from the south-east and running to the north-west intersect with that of the south- west comment and to the north-east Maine State Route 124 . The Maine State Route 121 briefly runs through the southeast over the area of ​​Minot . It connects Minot to Mechanik Falls to the west and Auburn to the east.

Public facilities

There is no hospital of its own in Minot. The next is available to residents of the town in Auburn.

education

Together with Mechanic Falls and Poland, Minot is part of Regional School Unit # 16 . Mechanic Falls is home to Elm Street School with classes from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. In Minot the Minot Consolidated School with classes from pre-kindergarten to the sixth grade, in Poland the Poland Community School , the Bruce M. Whittier Middle School and the Poland Regional High School are available.

Minot does not have its own library. The closest are at Auburn and Mechanic Falls.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Stephen Emery (1790–1863), politician
• Samuel G. Hilborn (1834–1899), politician

Web links

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

• Homepage of Minot
• Minot on City-Data.com
• Minot on maine.gov

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maine zip code list on maine.com ( Memento from March 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Minot in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed December 31, 2017
3. ↑ Maine 2010 Census Results ; official publication of the Census Authority, (English; PDF; 32.5 MB)
4. ^ Mount Prospect . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
5. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
6. ^ Minot, Androscoggin County | Maine Genealogy. In: mainegenealogy.net. Accessed February 4, 2018 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Minot, Maine (ME 04258) 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 December 31, 2017 (English). 
8. ^ ^{A b} History of Minot, Maine From A Gazetteer of the State of Maine by Geo. J. Varney edited by BB Russell, 57 Cornhill, Boston 1886
9. ↑ Population 1810-2010 according to census results
10. ↑ rsu 16. In: rsu16.org. Retrieved December 30, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Elm Street School ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 30, 2017