Orange (Vermont)

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Town Office and Town Hall by Orange
Location in Vermont
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Basic data
Foundation :	August 11, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orange County
Coordinates :	44 ° 10 ′  N , 72 ° 21 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 10 ′  N , 72 ° 21 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,072 (as of 2010)
Population density :	10.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	101.0 km 2  (approx. 39 mi 2 ) of which 100.4 km 2  (approx. 39 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	586 m
Postal code :	05641
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-53425
GNIS ID :	1462167
Website :	orangevt.org

Orange is a town in Orange County , Vermont , United States with 1,072 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Orange is in the northwest of Orange County. The largest lake in the town is the Thurman W. Dix Reservoir to the west . In the center of the town is the Orange Town Forest and to the northwest of this is the Barre City Forest . In the northeast, the Groton State Forest protrudes into the town. Several smaller watercourses run through the area. They flow east into the Waits River and west via tributaries in the Winooski River . The surface is hilly and the highest point is the 936 m high Knox Mountain .

Neighboring communities

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

• Northeast: Groton , 6.4 mi
• East: Topsham , 5.7 mi
• South-east: Corinth , 4.3 km
• South: Washington , 5.5 mi
• Southwest: Williamstown , 13.2 mi
• West: Barre , 14.3 km
• Northwest: Plainfield , 3.9 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in orange is between −9.44 ° C (15 ° 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 Grant for Orange was given by the Vermont Republic on November 6, 1780 to Ebenezer Green, Amos Robinson and others. This was officially confirmed on August 11, 1781. Settlement started in 1793 and the first settler was Joseph Williams. On March 12, 1796, the constituent city assembly took place. A meeting room was built in 1823. Up until then, town meetings took place in private homes.

The Village Orange is located in the center of the town. There was a post office in the village from 1823 to 1921. The Village East Orange in the southeast corner of the town had a post office from 1850 to 1908. From 1850 to 1900 there were several dairy farms in orange, the farmers were largely self-sufficient. Vegetables, poultry and the sale of milk were the main sources of income for the families. This gradually changed with the advent of automobiles. Many commuters who work in Barre City now live in Orange.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Orange, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	348	686	751	1016	984	1007	936	733	731	589
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	598	644	485	508	482	410	430	540	752	915
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	965	1072

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

US Highway 302 from Barre to Groton runs through the town in a west-east direction . The Vermont State Route 110 branches off to the south of this, and through the southwest corner of the Town to Washington. In the east, Vermont State Route 25 branches off to the southeast to Bradford.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Orange. The Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin is the closest hospital.

education

Orange is part of the Orange North Supervisory Union , which includes the towns of Orange, Washington and Williamstown. The Orange Center School is located in Orange .

Orange does not have its own library. The closest libraries are the Calef Memorial Library in Washington and the Aldrich Public Library in Barre.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Stanley C. Wilson (1879–1967), politician, governor of the state of Vermont
• Brian Letourneau (born 1980), biathlete

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 131 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 956 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Orange, 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 July 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Orange in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed April 2, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Knox Mountain . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Orange, Vermont (VT 05649) 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 April 2, 2017 (English). 
6. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
7. ↑ Orange Town Plan (PDF) , accessed April 2, 2017
8. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
9. ^ Orange North Supervisory Union . In: Edline . ( onsu.org ).
10. ^ Orange Center School . In: Edline . ( orangecenterschool.org ).