Ripley (Maine)
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Location in Maine
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | December 11, 1816 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Maine | ||
| County : | Somerset County | ||
| Coordinates : | 45 ° 0 ′ N , 69 ° 24 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 176 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 2.8 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 64.78 km 2 (approx. 25 mi 2 ) of which 63.74 km 2 (approx. 25 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 122 m | ||
| Postal code : | 04930 | ||
| Area code : | +1 207 | ||
| FIPS : | 23-62995 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 0582696 | ||
Ripley is a town in Somerset County in the state of Maine in the United States . In 2010 there lived 488 inhabitants in 316 households on an area of 64.78 km².
geography
According to the United States Census Bureau , Ripley has a total area of 64.78 km², of which 63.74 km² is land and 1.04 km² consists of water .
Geographical location
Ripley is located in southeast Somerset County and borders on Penobscot County . The Sebasticook River forms the northern limit of the area of the town. Ripley Pond is located in the center of the town . The surface is slightly hilly, the 191 m high Fush Hill in the northwest is the highest point.
Neighboring communities
All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.
- North: Cambridge , 3.9 miles
- East: Dexter , Penobscot County, 6.9 mi
- Southeast: Corinna , Penobscot County, 8 mi / 12.9 km
- South: St. Albans , 4.9 mi
- West: Harmony , 11.0 km
City structure
There are four settlement areas in Ripley : Ripley , Rogers' Mills , Todds Corner and West Ripley .
climate
The mean mean temperature in Ripley is between -11.1 ° C (12 ° F ) in January and 20.0 ° C (68 ° F) in July. This means that the place is around 9 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. The snowfalls between October and May are up to two and a half meters, more than twice as high as the average snow depth in the USA; the daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.
history
Ripley was organized as a town on December 11, 1816. The area was surveyed as Township No. 5, Fifth Range North of Waldo Patent (T5 R5 NWP) , it was part of the Monmouth Academy Grant. In 1834 the area north of the Sebasticook River was organized as an independent Town Cambridge. Land was given to St. Albans in 1862; this land swap was withdrawn in 2002.
The area was settled around 1801 and the town was named after Eleazer Wheelock Ripley , general in the British-American War and MP for Louisiana in the United States House of Representatives.
Population development
| Census Results - Town of Ripley, Maine | ||||||||||
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| year | 1800 | 1810 | 1820 | 1830 | 1840 | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 |
| Residents | 325 | 644 | 591 | 641 | 655 | 584 | 550 | 478 | ||
| year | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 |
| Residents | 449 | 434 | 383 | 394 | 331 | 389 | 317 | 297 | 439 | 445 |
| year | 2000 | 2010 | 2020 | 2030 | 2040 | 2050 | 2060 | 2070 | 2080 | 2090 |
| Residents | 452 | 488 | ||||||||
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The Maine State Route 23 , which connects Ripley with Harmony in the west and Dexter in the east, and Maine State Route 152 , which connects Ripley in the north with Cambridge and in the south with St. Albans, runs through Ripley in a west-easterly direction .
Public facilities
There are no medical facilities in Ripley. Others are in Dexter, St. Albans, Dover and Hartland.
Ripley does not have its own library, the closest being the Abbott Memorial Library in Dexter.
education
Ripley is part of the Maine School Administrative District 46 and AOS 94 with Athens, Brighton Plantation, Dexter, Exeter, Garland and Harmony .
The following schools are offered in the school district:
- Ridge View Community School in Dexter, with school classes from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade
- Harmony Elementary School in Harmony, with school classes from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade
- Athens Community School in Athens, with school classes from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade
- Dexter Regional High School in Dexter, with classes from 9th to 12th grade
Web links
- Ripley on maine.gov (English)
- Ripley on City-data.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ripley in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed May 2, 2020
- ↑ Maine 2010 Census Results ; official publication of the Census Authority, (English; PDF; 32.5 MB)
- ↑ Fush Hill. In: peakery.com. Retrieved May 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
- ↑ a b Ripley, Somerset County - Maine Genealogy. In: mainegenealogy.net. Retrieved May 2, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Ripley, Maine (ME 04930) 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 May 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Ripley. In: maineanencyclopedia.com. Retrieved May 2, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Population 1820–2010 according to census results
- ^ AOS # 94 - Learning All Ways, Always Learning. In: aos94.org. AOS # 94, accessed May 2, 2020 .
