Newfane (Vermont)

Newfane
Town center
Location in Vermont
Newfane
Basic data
Foundation :	June 19, 1753
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Windham County
Coordinates :	42 ° 58 ′  N , 72 ° 42 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 58 ′  N , 72 ° 42 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,726 (as of 2010)
Population density :	16.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	104.9 km 2  (approx. 41 mi 2 ) of which 104.1 km 2  (approx. 40 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	374 m
Postal code :	05345
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-48400
GNIS ID :	1462159
Website :	NewfaneVT.com

Newfane is a town in Windham County , Vermont , United States with a population of 1,726 (according to the 2010 census). As the county seat , it is both the political and economic center of its region.

geography

Geographical location

Newfane is located in the southeast of the US state Vermont. The West River and the Rock River flow through the municipality . The main settlements are the two localities of Newfane and Williamsville .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Townshend , 2.5 miles
• Northeast: Brookline , 6.5 mi
• East: Putney , 12 miles
• Southeast: Dummerston , 7.4 mi
• South: Marlboro , 2.9 mi
• West: Dover , 9.9 miles
• Northwest: Wardsboro , 7.7 mi

City structure

Originally the main settlement was Newfane Hill , but it was too difficult for the residents of the town to reach the administration buildings in winter, so a small settlement at the foot of the hill became the new main settlement. Initially known as Parks Flat also Parkville , named after Jonathan Park, an early settler of the town who donated land so that the administration buildings could be built there. The settlement was renamed Fayetteville after Marquis de Lafayette in 1825 . Finally in 1882 in Newfane and in 1907 it was given independent rights.

climate

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Town of Newfane, Vermont Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) -7.8 -6.8 -2.2 3.9 12.3 16.6 18.7 17.6 13.2 7.0 0.3 -5.3 O 5.7 Min. Temperature (° C) -17.2 -15.7 -10.7 -4.3 3.2 9.1 10.8 10.0 5.5 -0.7 -6.9 -13.8 O −2.5 Precipitation ( mm ) 151 114 149 159 157 175 190 204 192 162 188 162 Σ 2.003 Rainy days ( d ) 10 9 10 10 11 11 11 11 11 10 11 10 Σ 125 Source: www.weatherbase.com

In the winter months between the end of October and the beginning of May, an average of 191 cm of snowfall is recorded; January is the month with the heaviest rainfall with a mean value of 47.2 cm. The snowfalls are thus in the range of the Vermont mean and are about twice as high as the long-term mean in the USA.

history

As early as 1753, the area of ​​today's Newfane was released for settlement by the Governor Benning Wentworth . He named the area Fane after John Fane , the seventh Earl of Westmorland . However, the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in North America initially prevented the establishment of a settlement. Since a village was not established within the first five years after it was designated as settlement land, the right to establish a settlement was lost. Therefore Benning gave Wentworth a new settlement right for the establishment of a settlement New Fane . In 1766, families came from Worcester County , Massachusetts and settled in Newfane. They built a settlement on Newfane Hill, along with administrative buildings for the county. In the course of the 19th century, some representative buildings in the Victorian and Greek Revival styles as well as the Federal Style were built in Newfane , which still attract tourists to Newfane today.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Newfane, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										660
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1000	1276	1506	1441	1043	1304	1192	1113	1031	952
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	905	820	710	662	672	708	714	900	1129	1555
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1680	1726

The main settlement of the place has been shown separately as a village in the population censuses since 1910. In 2010 it had 118 inhabitants; in 2000 there were 116 inhabitants.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Vermont State Route 30 runs through Newfane and connects the town to Townshend in the north and Dummerston in the south. Amtrak Group passenger trains are located in Brattleboro (approx. 20 km away) and Bellows Falls (approx. 25 km away).

Public facilities

In Newfane there are no other public facilities besides the usual municipal offices and the elementary school mentioned below. The closest hospital is the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital in Brattleboro .

education

Newfane has a public elementary school, Newfane Elementary School , which runs from kindergarten to sixth grade. For secondary public schools, the surrounding communities, especially Brattleboro, must be approached. A private high school, Kinds Farm Children Services , runs from 3rd to 12th grade. It is an all-boys school.

Closest colleges are Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire (30 km) and Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts (50 km). The closest universities are Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire (around 50 km) and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts (a good 65 km).

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Harrison GO Blake (1818–1876), politician and representative of the State of Ohio in the US House of Representatives

Personalities who have worked on site

• James Elliot (1775–1839), politician and Vermont representative in the US House of Representatives. Spent his old age here
• George Cherrie (1865–1948), explorer. Lived and wrote in Newfane

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 126-127 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

• Homepage of the municipality (English)
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from February 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Newfane in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed October 1, 2014
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
4. ^ Newfane, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved November 26, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Newfane, Vermont (VT 05345) 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 November 26, 2017 (English). 
6. ↑ See Hayward's New England Gazetteer of 1839 , (accessed July 9, 2012).
7. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
8. ↑ School data at www.City-Data.com (English)