Norton (Vermont)

Norton
Border station with Canada
Location in Vermont
Norton
Basic data
Foundation :	1769
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Essex County
Coordinates :	44 ° 59 ′  N , 71 ° 48 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 59 ′  N , 71 ° 48 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	169 (as of 2010)
Population density :	1.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	102.6 km 2  (approx. 40 mi 2 ) of which 101.5 km 2  (approx. 39 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	413 m
Postal code :	05907
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-52750
GNIS ID :	1462165
Website :	http://Vermont.gov

Norton is a town in Essex County in the US state of Vermont . It had a total of 169 inhabitants at the last census in 2010. It is part of the Berlin Micropolitan Statistical Area .

geography

Geographical location

Norton is in northwest Essex County, south of the Canadian border . Norton Pond is centrally located in the south of the town . The north-flowing Coaticook River rises in it . It and its numerous small tributaries drain the area of ​​the town towards Canada. The surface is hilly, the highest point is the 840 m high Brousseau Mountain .

Neighboring communities

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

• Northwest: Coaticook , Canada, 3.4 mi
• Northeast: Dixville , Canada, 3.1 mi
• East: Averill , 10 miles
• Southeast: Averys Gore , 1.7 mi
• South: Warren Gore , 5.2 mi
• Southwest: Warner's Grant , 7.6 mi
• West: Holland , 20.2 km

climate

The mean mean temperature in Norton 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

The Norton Grant was one of the earliest Vermont Republic grants to be awarded in 1769. The certificate is burned so that no information about the grant is known.

First, Norton Hamilton was named. With the establishment of the grant, the town was renamed Norton, after Jedediah Norton, the largest landowner in Norton. The Norton settlers initially came from Quebec . French and British settlers from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence area . They were able to transport goods and goods towards Canada via the Coaticook River. At first there were hardly any roads.

The railroad reached Norton in 1853 on the Montreal – Island Pond line . This made it possible to trade with New England in the south. However, there are still strong trade links with Quebec today.

The Earth Peoples Park in Norton existed from 1970 to 1994 on a swampy and forested area of ​​land near the Canadian border . In 1970 the land was purchased and a non-profit Earth Peoples Park Inc operated. After the land was seized by the United States government in 1994, the Black Turn Brook State Forest , owned by the State of Vermont, was established on it.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Norton, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents							32	303	239	960
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	692	479	336	339	314	279	241	207	184	169
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	214	169

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

In a northerly direction centrally through the town, Vermont State Route 114 runs parallel to the Coaticook River . At the border it branches off in an easterly direction to Canaan.

Public facilities

The North Country Hospital & Health Care in Newport is the closest hospital to the town's residents.

education

Norton is part of the Essex North Supervisory Union with Bloomfield, Brunswick, Canaan and Lemington . There is no school in Norton, the closest schools are the Canaan Schools . They offer classes from kindergarten through the 12th grade for around 200 pupils.

There is no library in Norton. The closest are in Derby Line or Canaan.

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 the period up to 1840)
• Benjamin Homer Hall: History of Eastern Vermont . D. Appleton & Co., New York 1865 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Norton, 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 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Norton in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed May 28, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Brousseau Mountain on Peakery.com , accessed May 28, 2017
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ^ Norton on the City Daty portal , accessed May 28, 2017
6. ^ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical , p. 129 , accessed May 28, 2017
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Norton Town Plan, page 4 , accessed May 28, 2017
8. ^ Black Turn Brook State Forest , accessed May 28, 2017
9. ↑ Population 1860–2010 according to census results
10. ^ Essex North Supervisory Union , accessed May 21, 2017
11. ^ Canaan Schools , accessed May 28, 2015