Newark (Vermont)

Newark
Newark Location in Vermont
Basic data
Foundation :	August 15, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Caledonia County
Coordinates :	44 ° 42 ′  N , 71 ° 57 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 42 ′  N , 71 ° 57 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	581 (as of 2010)
Population density :	6.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	96.4 km 2  (approx. 37 mi 2 ) of which 95.2 km 2  (approx. 37 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	215 m
Postal code :	05871
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-47725
GNIS ID :	1462157
Website :	http://Vermont.gov

Newark is a town in Caledonia County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 581 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Newark is in the north of Caledonia County, in the Green Mountains . The Passumpsic River flows through the town in a southerly direction. Other smaller streams and rivers flow into it. There are several small lakes in the area of ​​the town, the largest being Newark Pond in the west, and the centrally located Center Pond is also relatively large. The surface of the town is hilly, the highest point is the 648 m high Packer Mountain .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Brighton , 4.7 miles
• East: Ferdinand , 16.7 km
• Southeast: East Haven , 9.4 mi
• South: Burke , 2.6 mi
• Southwest: Sutton , 6.9 mi
• Northwest: Westmore , 5.9 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Newark ranges from −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 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 Grant for Newark was proclaimed on November 6, 1780 by the Vermont Republic . It was given to William Wall and others on August 15, 1781. The grant was the usual size of 23,040 acres (9,324 hectares ). Settlement began around 1800. Some of the grant recipients were also beneficiaries of the Lyndon Grant.

Newark is one of the few Vermont towns where little is known about how the name came about. Since the area of ​​the town was neither opened up by the major roads of Vermont nor reached by the railroad, Newark developed very slowly, with only a few inhabitants.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Newark
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	8th	88	154	257	360	434	567	593	679	536
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	500	415	364	301	242	192	151	144	280	354
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	470	581

Culture and sights

Parks

The Newark Pond in the west of town is the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department managed. It is popular as a fishing spot, with good stocks of perch and trout .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont State Route 114 runs north to south through the eastern part of the Town. It connects Newark with Island Pond in the north and Lyndon in the south. Vermont State Route 5A runs through the southwest corner from Westmore in the northwest to Burke in the south.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Newark. The closest is Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury.

education

Newark is part of the Caledonia North Supervisory Union with Burke, Lyndon, Sutton and Sheffield . In Newark, Newark Street School offers classes from kindergarten through eighth grade for approximately 70 school children. The school has an attached school library , the Newark Street School Library . The nearest public libraries are in Barton, Glover and Island Pond.

Personalities

Personalities who have worked on site

• Claire Van Vliet (* 1939), artist and illustrator

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . tape III . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 124 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 1 . Burlington 1867, p. 854 ff .

Web links

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

• Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
• Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Newark in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . Retrieved June 17, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Packer Mountain on Peakery.com , accessed June 17, 2017
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ^ Newark on the City Daty portal , accessed June 17, 2017
6. ↑ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical , p. 124 , accessed June 17, 2017
7. ^ Newark, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved June 17, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
9. ^ Newark Pond, Newark - Vermont Fish and Wildlife. (No longer available online.) In: vtfishandwildlife.com. Archived from the original on June 14, 2017 ; Retrieved June 17, 2017 (American English). 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.  
10. ↑ Caledonia North Supervisory Union , accessed June 17, 2017
11. ^ Newark Street School , accessed June 17, 2017