Morristown (Vermont)

Morristown
Covered Bridge in Morristown
Location in Vermont
Morristown
Basic data
Foundation :	November 6, 1780
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Lamoille County
Coordinates :	44 ° 33 ′  N , 72 ° 36 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 33 ′  N , 72 ° 36 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	5,227 (as of 2010)
Population density :	39.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	133.7 km 2  (approx. 52 mi 2 ) of which 133.0 km 2  (approx. 51 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	289 m
Postal code :	05661
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-46675
GNIS ID :	1462154
Website :	www.morristownvt.org

Morristown is a town in Lamoille County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 5227 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Morristown is south of Lamoille County, in a rugged stretch of the northern Green Mountains . In the area of ​​the town in the north on the border with Hyde Park is Lake Lamoille . The Lamoille River flows through it. The area is hilly, there are several mountains, the highest is the 1109 m high Madonna Peak in the west

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Hyde Park , 2.8 miles
• Northeast: Wolcott , 7.5 mi
• East: Elmore , 4.7 miles
• Southeast: Woodbury , 13.5 mi
• South: Stowe , 10.5 km
• Southwest: Underhill , 14 miles
• West: Westford , 19 miles
• Northwest: Waterville , 20.5 km

City structure

The Village Morrisville is the main settlement in the town.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Morristown is between -11.67 ° 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

Morrisville 1889

The town was proclaimed for settlement on November 6, 1780, and on August 24, 1781, 66 settlers were assigned under the direction of Moses Morse . The first reclamation took place from the spring of 1790; a landowner traveled from Bennington and worked his land from a friend's existing farm in neighboring Hyde Park during the week. In the winter he returned to Bennington and brought his family in the spring of 1791, but went back to Bennington again in the winter. From 1792 more colonists followed and together they built a permanent house. This was the first time that the community was permanently settled. In 1796 the town became administratively independent. In 1798 the first sawmill was built. The community remained largely agricultural.

From 1872 the town was opened up by the Lunenburg – Maquam railway line , but this did not change its rural character. After the end of passenger traffic in 1956 and freight traffic in 1994, Vermont State Route 12 , which ends in Morrisville , Vermont State Route 100 and Morrisville-Stowe State Airport are the town's main transport links.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Morristown, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										10
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	144	550	726	1315	1502	1441	1751	1897	2099	2411
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	2533	2652	2813	2939	3130	3225	3347	4052	4448	4733
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	5139	5227

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The community is served by Vermont Route 100 , which runs south from Morristown towards Stowe, and Vermont Route 15 , which forms an east-west axis from Hyde Park to Wolcott. From her the Vermont Route 12 branches off in a southeast direction to Elmore.

Public facilities

The Copley Hospital in Morrisville is the hospital of the region for Morristown and Surrounding Towns.

education

People's Academy

Morristown belongs to the Lamoille South Supervisory Union with Elmore and Stowe. The Morristown Elementary School is located in the Village of Morrisville. It offers school classes from kindergarten through fourth grade. The Peoples Academy Middle Level is also located in Morrisville, as is the Peoples Academy High School . This was founded in 1847.

In addition to the public schools, there is also the private Catholic Bishop Marshall School in Morrisville . It offers school classes from kindergarten through eighth grade.

The Morristown Centennial Central Library is on Richmond Street in Morrisville.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• LM Shaw (1848–1932), politician, Governor of Iowa and Secretary of the Treasury of the United States
• H. Henry Powers (1835–1913), politician, member of the US House of Representatives

Personalities who have worked on site

• Clifton G. Parker (1906–1988), politician, Attorney General of Vermont

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 122 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 680 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Morristown, Vermont  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Homepage of the municipality (English)
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English)
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov

Individual evidence

1. ^ Morristown in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed March 11, 2012
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Madonna Peak . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Morristown, Vermont (VT 05661) 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 17, 2017 (English). 
6. ^ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont: natural, civil, and statistical, in three parts . George H. Salisbury, Burlington 1842, p. 122 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
7. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
8. ^ Lamoille South Supervisory Union, Morristown, Stowe, and Elmore Vermont. (No longer available online.) In: lamoillesouthsu.org. Archived from the original on November 7, 2016 ; Retrieved April 18, 2017 . 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.  
9. ↑ PA. In: google.com. sites.google.com, accessed April 18, 2017 . 
10. ^ About Us - Bishop John A. Marshall School . In: Bishop John A. Marshall School . ( bjams.org ).
11. ^ Morristown Centennial Library. In: centenniallibrary.org. Retrieved April 18, 2017 .