Newport (City)

Newport
Orleans County Courthouse in Newport
Location in Vermont
Newport
Basic data
Foundation :	March 5, 1918
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orleans County
Coordinates :	44 ° 56 ′  N , 72 ° 12 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 56 ′  N , 72 ° 12 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	4,589 (as of 2010)
Population density :	294.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	19.7 km 2  (approx. 8 mi 2 ) of which 15.6 km 2  (approx. 6 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	208 m
Postal code :	05855
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-48850
GNIS ID :	1461773
Website :	www.NewportVermont.org

Newport City is a city in Orleans County , Vermont , United States with a population of 4,589 (2010 census). Newport City is the administrative center ( Shire Town ) of the county.

geography

Geographical location

Newport is located in northern central Vermont near the Canadian border in the northern foothills of the Appalachian Mountains on the shores of Lake Memphremagog . Newport is a predominantly rural area that was primarily a local center of the logging industry until the 1980s. Newport is the county seat of Orleans County.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Canadian border , 4.3 mi
• North-east: Derby , 6.5 km
• East: Averil , 26 miles
• Southeast: Charleston , 11.5 mi
• South: Orleans , 9.3 miles
• Southwest: Coventry , 6.5 mi
• West: Town of Newport , 5.0 mi
• Northwest: Mansonville, Quebéc, Canada , 12 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Newport is between -11.7 ° 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

Newport

Today's city was founded as the main settlement center of the town of Newport around 1800 and originally known as Pickeral Point . In 1816 parts of the later completely dissolved Town Salem were added to the present city area. By this time the name of the settlement had already been changed to Lake Bridge . With the construction of the railway, which connected the place with White River Junction from 1863 , Newport developed into the economic center of the area. A hotel was built as well as a rental stable; From 1867, ferry traffic on Lake Memphremagog began with the paddle steamer Lady of the Lake , which today adorns the city's seal. In 1868 the settlement was renamed the Village of Newport , was elevated to the administrative seat of the county in 1886 and, after the construction of a courthouse, took over the county court instead of neighboring Irasburg . On March 5, 1918, Newport was finally raised to an independent City, into which small parts of the adjacent Town Derby had previously been incorporated.

Since the 1950s, the main branch of the economy, logging, increasingly lost its importance; since the 1980s it has almost completely come to a standstill in the area. 1967 the railway stopped the passenger traffic; however, freight traffic has continued to this day. Several large employers shut down during the economic crises of the 1990s and 2000s. The residents of Newport move to other, economically better off areas. Newport is one of those places in Vermont that has long-term populations; compared to the 2000 census, Newport lost about 10% of its residents.

The city's most important employer is the North Country Hospital , which is the medical center for a wide area.

Religions

Newport City is home to the Assemblies of God , Church of the Nazarene , Episcopal , Catholic , United Church of Christ, and Methodist congregations .

Population development

Census Results - City of Newport, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents									920	1730
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	2787	3657	4976	5094	4902	5217	5019	4664	4756	4434
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	5005	4589

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Newport is connected to the US road network via US Route 5 as well as several highways, Vermont Routes 14, 100, 105 and 191. One airport, Newport State Airport , is located in the southeast of the city.

Public facilities

The hospital for Newport and the entire region is North Country Hospital & Health Care in Newport City. It is also the largest employer in Newport.

education

Newport City is part of the North Country Supervisory Union . The Newport City Elementary School offers classes from pre-kindergarten to sixth grade.

Goodrich Memorial Library

The Goodrich Memorial Library was founded in 1899; it goes back to generous donations from Converse and Almira Goodrich. In 1983 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Thanks to an extensive donation in 2003, the library was restored.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• George H. Prouty (1862–1918), politician and governor of Vermont
• Charles Adams (1876–1947), entrepreneur
• Lane Dwinell (1906–1997), politician and Governor of New Hampshire
• Winston L. Prouty (1906–1971), politician and Congressman

Personalities who have worked on site

• David M. Camp (1788–1871), politician and lawyer who was Lieutenant Governor of Vermont

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . tape 3 . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 102 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for history up to 1840)

Web links

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

• City homepage
• Profile on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from November 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Newport City in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed March 28, 2012
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
4. ↑ Newport, Vermont (VT 05855) 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 4, 2017 (English). 
5. ↑ Population 1880–2010 according to census results
6. ^ School Calendars - North Country Supervisory Union. (No longer available online.) In: ncsuvt.org. Archived from the original on October 5, 2016 ; accessed on March 4, 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.  
7. ^ Newport City Elementary School. In: ncsuvt.org. nces.ncsuvt.org, accessed March 4, 2017 . 
8. ^ Goodrich Memorial Library | "A Tradition of Learning & Imagining since 1898." In: goodrichlibrary.org. Retrieved March 4, 2017 (American English).