North Hero

North Hero
	; The court house from 1824, built from marble from the quarries on Isle La Motte
Location in Vermont
	North Hero
	North Hero
Basic data
Foundation :	October 27, 1779
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Grand Isle County
Coordinates :	44 ° 50 ′ N , 73 ° 14 ′ W Coordinates: 44 ° 50 ′ N , 73 ° 14 ′ W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	803 (as of 2010)
Population density :	23 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	120.6 km 2 (approx. 47 mi 2 ) of; which 34.9 km 2 (approx. 13 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	32 m
Postal code :	05474
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-50650
GNIS ID :	1462164
Website :	www.NorthHeroVT.com

North Hero is a town in Grand Isle County of the state of Vermont in the United States and with only 803 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census) it is the second smallest administrative seat ( Shire Town ) of a county in Vermont after Guildhall .

geography

Geographical location

North Hero is located on one of the larger islands in Lake Champlain , the elongated, narrow North Hero Island, on the border with New York State and twenty kilometers south of the border with Canada . North Hero is surrounded by other islands. Pine Island is to the northwest, Isle la Motte to the west, Grand Island to the south, Butler Island to the east and Knight Island to the south. The surface is level and a few small streams run through the town

Neighboring communities

The surrounding communities can also be reached by land via road bridges, but this usually leads to considerable detours. In the following, a second distance specification therefore always relates to this longer road connection; all other distances are straight line distances.

North: Alburgh , 16 km
Northeast: Swanton , 15km / 30km
East: St. Albans , 15 km / 45 km
South: South Hero , 20 km
West: Isle La Motte , 7 km / 15 km

climate

The mean mean temperature in North Hero is between −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 20.6 ° C (69 ° 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

Community Hall, North Hero

The parish originally belonged, together with today's parishes of South Hero and Grand Isle , to a colonization area known as Two Heros in 1779 and given to 365 war veterans from the American War of Liberation. Those veterans also included Ethan Allen and Samuel Herrick. Whether it was these two people after whom the area was named is controversial. Other voices refer to Ethan's brother Ira as the second hero . The area of origin was divided into three areas in 1798: North Hero , South Hero and Middle Hero , which was originally under the administration of South Hero and only became independent in 1810 under the current name of Grand Isle .

The inhabitants live from agriculture on the one hand, but also from tourism on the other: a number of islands off North Hero have been declared national parks and are under nature protection. There is also a national park on the east bank of your own island: North Hero State Park .

religion

There are two parishes in the village: a Roman Catholic and a Methodist .

Population development

Census Results - Town of North Hero, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										125
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	324	552	503	638	716	730	594	601	637	550
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	712	496	494	485	442	407	328	364	442	502
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	810	803

Culture and sights

Parks

North Hero State Park is to the north of the town . It is 399 acres (161.5 hectares ) and was founded in 1963. Since the state park is only slightly above the water level of Lake Champlains, it is regularly flooded and an alluvial forest has formed, which is unusual for Vermont and can only be found on Lake Champlain. White-tailed deer and a wide variety of waterfowl live in the state park .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

North Hero is the only road connection between Vermont and New York north of Lake Champlain on US Highway 2 in a north-south direction from Alburgh in the north to Grand Isle in the south. The highway leads over bridges to both towns. There is no Amtrak stop in North Hero. There is no Amtrak stop in Grand Isle. The nearest stops are in Rouses Point or St. Albans.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in North Hero. The closest hospital is the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington.

education

Historic house, now the seat of the Historical Society

North Hero belongs to the Grand Isle Supervisory Union with Alburgh, Grand Isle, Isle La Motte and South Hero . The North Hero School offers classes from kindergarten to sixth grade.

The North Hero Public Library was established at a town meeting on March 4, 1913. At first she was housed in different houses. After the Town Hall was completed, the library moved into a room on the ground floor. In May 1979 the town decided to renovate the old school building and the library moved in in 1980. The North Hero Historical Society was founded in 1989.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Jedd P. Ladd (1828-1894), American politician

literature

Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 129 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 563 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).