Pittsfield (Vermont)

Pittsfield
View over Pittsfield about 1910
Location in Vermont
Pittsfield
Basic data
Foundation :	November 8, 1780
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Rutland County
Coordinates :	43 ° 46 ′  N , 72 ° 50 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 46 ′  N , 72 ° 50 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	546 (as of 2010)
Population density :	10.5 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	51.9 km 2  (approx. 20 mi 2 ) of which 51.9 km 2  (approx. 20 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	272 m
Postal code :	05762
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-55450
GNIS ID :	1462173
Website :	www.pittsfieldvt.com

Pittsfield is a town in Rutland County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 546 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Pittsfield is in northeast Rutland County, in the Green Mountains . The area of ​​the town is interspersed with hills and valleys. Two tributaries of the White River flow through the town and meet near the settlement of Pittsfield. The highest point is Wilcox Peak with a height of 863 m.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Rochester , 1.4 mi
• East: Stockbridge , 5.3 miles
• South: Killington , 4.7 mi
• West: Chittenden , 7.8 km

climate

The mean mean temperature in Pittsfield is between -7.2 ° C (19 ° 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

The Grant for Pittsfield was given by Thomas Chittenden on November 8, 1780 to Samuel Wilcox and 129 other settlers. This was recorded on July 29, 1781. Settlement began in 1786. Parts of the area were given to Rochester in 1806 and 1824 and to Stockbridge in 1813 and 1822.

Destruction by Hurricane Irene

Two tributaries of the White River meet in Pittsfield and this caused great destruction in Pittsfield during Hurricane Irene . Pittsfield was one of the most hurricane-damaged areas in Vermont.

Religions

The Methodist Church organized a congregation in Pittsfield in 1805 and the Congregational Church in 1803.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Pittsfield, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										49
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	164	338	453	505	615	512	493	482	555	468
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	435	402	343	256	259	225	254	249	396	389
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	427	546

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont State Route 100 runs in a north-south direction along the eastern border of the Town, of Rochester to Killington and mostly follows the course of White River. The White River Railroad (Vermont) led with a freight line in one of the valleys of Pittsfield.

Public facilities

There is no hospital of its own in Pittsfield. The closest hospital is the Rutland Regional Medical Center in Rutland .

education

Pittsfield does not have its own school in the town area. The closest schools are in Killington, Bethel and Chittenden.

Pittsfield has its own library, the Roger Clarks Memorial Library .

Personalities

Personalities who have worked on site

• Charles Herbert Joyce (1830–1916), politician

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 138 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. 719 f . ( archive.org ).

Web links

Commons : Pittsfield, 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 November 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pittsfield in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed January 3, 2016
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Wilcox Peak . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Pittsfield, Vermont (VT 05762) 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 21, 2017 (English). 
6. ^ ^{A b} Austin Jacobs Coolidge, John Brainard Mansfield: A History and Description of New England, General and Local . AJ Coolidge, 1859, p. 874 ( books.google.de ).
7. ↑ Small Town in Vermont Shows Big Heart as Hurricane Irene Hits Hard. In: minyanville.com. Minyanville, accessed January 21, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Michael Cooper: Hurricane Cost Seen as Ranking Among Top Ten . In: The New York Times . August 30, 2011, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com ).
9. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
10. ^ Pittsfield's Roger Clark Memorial Library. In: pittsfieldlibrary.com. Pittsfield's Roger Clark Memorial Library, accessed January 21, 2017 .