Pawlet

Pawlet
Grade II listed school in Pawlet, Vermont
Location in Vermont
Pawlet
Basic data
Foundation :	August 26, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Rutland County
Coordinates :	43 ° 22 ′  N , 73 ° 12 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 22 ′  N , 73 ° 12 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,477 (as of 2010)
Population density :	13.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	111.1 km 2  (approx. 43 mi 2 ) of which 111.1 km 2  (approx. 43 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	192 m
Postal code :	05761
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-54250
GNIS ID :	1462170
Website :	pawlet.vt.gov

Pawlet is a town in Rutland County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 1,477 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Pawlet is in southwest Rutland County, in the Green Mountains . The area of ​​the town is interspersed with hills and valleys. The Mettawee River drains the town in a north-westerly direction with its tributaries. The highest point in the area of ​​the town is Haystack Mountain with a height of 567 m.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Wells , 1.7 miles
• Northeast: Tinmouth , 8 miles
• East: Danby , 9 miles
• Southeast: Dorset , 10 mi
• South: Rupert , 3.7 km
• Southwest: Salem, NY 10.1 mi
• West: Hebron, NY 11.4 miles
• Northwest: Granville, NY 13.5 km

climate

The mean mean temperature in Pawlet is between −6.7 ° C (20 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 21.1 ° C (70 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 8 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

Pawlet was founded on August 26, 1761 as a Grant by Benning Wentworth . Jonathan Willard received the grant along with 76 other settlers. Initially, however, only a few families settled there due to emerging acts of war. In 1770, nine families lived in the town's area. Willard subsequently bought land from other grant recipients until he owned about two-thirds of the town's area. The other third belonged to Simeon Burton and William Fairfield, who settled in Pawlet as early as 1762. The first town assembly was held in 1769 and Simeon Burton was Pawlet's first town cleark. After the war, many former soldiers settled here.

Religions

In 1781 the Congregationalist Congregation was founded and in 1797 they built the first church. The Baptist Congregation was founded in 1791 and in 1800 the congregation built a church. Other religious communities represented in Pawlet are the Methodists , Episcopals and the Universalists . Today there is also a congregation of the United Church of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Danby, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										1458
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1938	2233	2155	1965	1748	1843	1539	1505	1696	1745
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1731	1959	1413	1476	1192	1156	1112	1184	1244	1314
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1394	1477

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Junction of State Route 30 with State Route 133 at Pawlet

The Vermont State Route 30 runs in a north-south direction centrally from Wells to Dorset by the Town. In the west, Vermont State Route 153 also runs north-south and meets the 30 in the northwest. From this connection, Vermont State Route 149 branches off to Granvill . The nearest railway stop is in Fair Heaven .

Public facilities

There is no hospital of its own in Pawlet. The closest hospital is Emma Laing Stevens Hospital in Granville, New York.

education

Pawlet is part of the Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union along with Danby, Dorset, Langrove, Londonderry, Mt. Tabor, Manchester, Peru, Rupert, Sunderland, Weston and Winhall. In Pawlet, the Mettawee Community School offers lessons from kindergarten through 6th grade.

The Pawlet Public Library is located on School Road in Pawlet.

Personalities

Personalities who have worked on site

• Aaron Clark (1787–1861), politician, Mayor of New York City

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 135 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• HP Smith: History of Rutland County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . D. Mason & co., Syracuse, NY 1886, pp. 697 f . ( archive.org ).

Web links

Commons : Pawlet, 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 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pawlet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed January 2, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ^ Haystack Mountain . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ). peakery.com ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Pawlet, Vermont (VT 05761) 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 January 19, 2017 (English). 
6. ^ Pawlet for One Hundred Years. In: archive.org. Retrieved January 19, 2017 . 
7. ^ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
8. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
9. ^ Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union , accessed July 26, 2017
10. ^ Pawlet Public Library. In: wordpress.com. Pawlet Public Library, accessed January 19, 2017 (American English).