Ripton

Ripton
Ripton Community House
Location in Vermont
Ripton
Basic data
Foundation :	April 13, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Addison County
Coordinates :	43 ° 59 ′  N , 73 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 59 ′  N , 73 ° 0 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	588 (as of 2010)
Population density :	4.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	129.1 km 2  (approx. 50 mi 2 ) of which 128.7 km 2  (approx. 50 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	509 m
Postal code :	05766
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-59650
GNIS ID :	1462187
Website :	www.RiptonVT.org

Ripton is a town in Addison County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 588 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

The village of Ripton is located in the middle of the Green Mountains and includes part of their western mountain range. The habitable part, mostly in the western half of the town, forms an uneven, but not rugged, mountain valley that is largely forested. To the east of the town is a mountain range with some of the highest peaks in the Green Mountains:

• Bread Loaf Mountain , 1169 m (3835 feet)
• Wilson Mountain , 1152 m (3780 feet)
• Battell Mountain , 1061 m (3482 feet)
• Mount Roosevelt , 1012 m (3323 feet)
• Boyce Mountain , 933 m (3062 feet)
• Robert Frost Mountain , 766 m (2513 feet)

Ripton is traversed by a number of smaller watercourses, including the Dragon Brook and the Sparks Brook. These streams merge into two major rivers, arms of the Middlebury River .

Of the total area of ​​the municipality, 22,201 acres, corresponding to 8.984 km² (67.9%), are designated as a national park. Another 2,310 acres, equivalent to 0.935 km² (7.1%), belongs to Middlebury College.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Bristol , 4.2 miles
• North: Lincoln , 2.7 mi
• East: Granville , 17.3 km
• Southeast: Hancock , 5.4 mi
• South: Goshen , 4.0 km
• Southwest: Salisbury , 8 miles
• West: Middlebury , 14.1 km

City structure

In addition to the main settlement, which also houses the Town Hall and the Ripton Country Store , there is another settlement area, the Bread Loaf . It's a Middlebury College summer camp and has held summer graduate courses here since 1919.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Ripton ranges from −8.3 ° C (17 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 19.4 ° C (67 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 12 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. At more than five and a half meters, the snowfall between October and May is 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, and in the period September to December even significantly below.

history

Ripton is one of the areas of Vermont that was only opened up in the second settlement phase. Due to its location in the interior of the Green Mountains, it was to be expected that there was little arable land, so that it was not until April 13, 1781 by the Congress of Vermont to Abel Thompson and 59 other interested parties with an area of ​​24,000 acres (corresponding to about 96 km²) was sold. The country was settled reluctantly; it was not until 1801 that the first permanent settler, a family that gave birth to the town's first child in the same year, was registered. At this point in time and in the following decades, the land was primarily used for timber and only secondarily for agriculture.

The original area of ​​Riptons was expanded in 1815 by a piece of land of 6200 acres (about 25 km²), the northern part of the neighboring town of Goshen ; In 1819 another 1940 acres (approx. 775 hectares ) were added from Middlebury, and in 1827 another 900 acres (approx. 360 hectares) from Salisbury. But it was not until 1828 that the population had grown to such an extent that a constituent city assembly was held.

There was no connection to the railway lines that had crossed Vermont since the late 1840s, so the region was largely self-sufficient economically. The civil war , the First World War, the Great Depression, the New Deal and the Second World War largely had no impact on the remote town. The emigration of the population of Ripton, apparently especially to the agriculturally more promising areas in the west, took place slowly but steadily between 1880 and 1950. Only then did the number of residents slowly increase again.

The settlement of the area is limited to the high valley in the west of the town, which lies in the mountain ranges of the Green Mountains. Around two thirds of the town, however, encompass mountainous, uninhabitable landscapes that are now used for tourism as a national park.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Ripton, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	-	15th	42	278	357	567	570	617	672	568
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	525	421	237	194	231	207	131	187	327	444
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	556	588

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The village is connected to the road traffic via Vermont State Route 17 , which crosses the town in the southern third in an east-west direction.

Public facilities

With the exception of the usual municipal facilities and elementary school, Ripton has no public facilities. The closest hospital is Porter Medical Center in Middlebury.

education

Ripton is part of the Addison Central School District with Bridport, Cornwall, Middlebury, Salisbury, Shoreham and Weybridge.

A six-class elementary school with kindergarten, the Ripton Elementary School , is located in the village . For all secondary school qualifications, the surrounding communities, especially Middlebury, must be approached.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Hunter Lovins (* 1950), lawyer, sociologist and political scientist; Winner of the 1983 Right Livelihood Award

Personalities who have worked on site

• Robert Frost (1874–1963), poet. Taught at the Bread Loaf School of English

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 149 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Samuel Swift: History of Addison County . Middlebury 1859. Online versions and scans at archive.org
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 1st volume. Burlington 1867, p. 77 ff .
• History of Ripton to circa 1880
  Copy from an 1886 History of Addison County, edited by HP Smith. Middlebury College website.

Web links

Commons : Ripton, 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 October 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ripton in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed October 1, 2014
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
4. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
5. ↑ Population 1810-2010 according to census results
6. ^ Addison Central School District / Homepage. In: acsdvt.org. Retrieved July 27, 2017 (English). 
7. ^ Ripton / Homepage. In: acsdvt.org. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .