Rochester (Vermont)

Rochester
Homes in Rochester
Location in Vermont
Rochester
Basic data
Foundation :	July 30, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Windsor County
Coordinates :	43 ° 53 ′  N , 72 ° 49 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 53 ′  N , 72 ° 49 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,139 (as of 2010)
Population density :	7.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	148.6 km 2  (approx. 57 mi 2 ) of which 147.8 km 2  (approx. 57 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	620 m
Postal code :	05767
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-60100
GNIS ID :	1462188
Website :	rochestervermont.org

Rochester is a town in Windsor County , Vermont , United States with 1,139 inhabitants (2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Rochester forms the northwest corner of Windsor County, on the eastern edge of the Green Mountains . Much of the town is in the Green Mountain National Forest. The highest point is the 973 m high Philadelphia Peak in the Green Mountains. The 868 m high Rochester Mountain is in the east of the town and the 836 m high Mount Cushman is in the northeast, in Mount Cushman State Park. In the Green Mountains, the peaks are Little Pico Mountain at 664 m, Jones Mountain 625 m and the 777 m high Hawk Mountain. The White River rises on the slopes of the Bread Loaf Mountains and then flows through Rochester in an easterly, later in a southeasterly direction. Along the White River and its tributary the Brandon Brooks, Vermont State Route 73 runs in a west-east direction and Vermont State Route 100 in a north-south direction.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Braintree , 14.1 km
• Northeast: Randolph , 15 mi
• East: Bethel , 15.2 km
• Southeast: Stockbridge , 5.5 mi
• South: Pittsfield , 1.4 mi
• South: Chittenden 8.9 km
• Southwest: Goshen , 11 mi
• West: Hancock , 10.1 km
• Northwest: Granville , 4.5 km

City structure

There are several smaller settlements in Rochester. They are called Jerusalem, Little Hollow, New Boston, Austin Hill, Maple Hill, Corporation Brook, West Rochester, West Hill, Bingo, Liberty Hill, Great Hollow, North Hollow, Middle Hollow, South Hollow, and Satan's Kingdom.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Rochester ranges from −8.3 ° C (17  ° F ) in January to 20.0 ° C (68 ° F) in July. This makes the place about 2 degrees cooler compared to the long-term mean of Vermont. The snowfall between October and May is well over two meters (with a peak in January of almost 50 cm) about twice as high as the mean snow depth in the USA. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

Rochester around 1910

Rochester was founded on July 30, 1781 as a grant from the Vermont Republic on territory not yet settled by the New Hampshire Grants . The name goes back to Rochester in Massachusetts, from where many of the first settlers came. The grant went to Dudley Chase and Asa Witcomb and 63 others. The first settlers settled in the winter of 1781/1782. By dividing the former town of Philadelphia between the towns of Goshen and Rochester, Rochester got an area on Philadelphia Peak in the heights of the Green Mountains, surrounded by the towns of Addison County . This makes Rochester the largest town in Windsor County.

The former White River Railroad connected Rochester with Bethel.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Rochester, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										215
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	524	911	1148	1392	1396	14931	1507	1444	1362	1257
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1250	1317	1397	1285	1129	937	879	884	1054	1181
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1171	1139

Culture and sights

Parks

Large parts of the town are in 1932 161.500 founded ha large Green Mountain National Forest . To the east around Mount Cushman is Mount Cushman State Park, which is only 6.4 hectares in size, and a little further south is the 142 hectare Riley Bostwick Wildlife Management Area, founded in 1970.

Economy and Infrastructure

Public facilities

The Gifford Medical Center in Randolph is the closest hospital for Rochester.

The Rochester Public Library was founded in March 1801. At first it was on the premises of private houses later on in a shop and in 1937 Chester E. and Leslie D. Pierce donated their house, which was previously used by the Universalist Church Society, as the building for the library.

education

There were up to 15 one-room schools in Rochester, where children were taught from Grade 1 to Grade 8. Those who wanted to continue their school education after grade 8 attended Village High School. In 1946 the one-room schools were closed and the lessons in the school were combined in the Village. Most of the old schools are now used as private homes. Today Rochester is home to the Rochester School with classes from kindergarten through 12th grade.

Rochester is part of the Windsor Northwest Supervisory Union .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• James Whitcomb (1795-1852), politician
• William Wildman Campbell (1853-1927), politician

literature

• Wendall Wales Williams: Rochester, Vermont, its history, 1780–1975 . Queen City Printers, sl 1975 ( google.de ).

Web links

Commons : Rochester, Vermont  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• The community site (English)
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from March 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rochester in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed October 15, 2016
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Philadelphia Peak . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ^ Rochester Mountain . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
5. ^ Mount Cushman . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
6. ↑ Little Pico Mountain . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
7. ^ Jones Mountain . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
8. ^ Hawk Mountain . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
9. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
10. ^ ^{A b} Nancy Woolley: The History of Rochester. In: rochesterhistorical.org. Retrieved December 7, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Rochester, Vermont (VT 05767) profiles: 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 October 15, 2016 . 
12. ^ Austin J. Coolidge, John B. Mansfield: A History and Description of New England, General and Local. Volume 1: Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Austin J. Coolidge, Boston MA 1859, pp. 885-886, ( digitized ).
13. ^ ^{A b} Rochester, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved October 15, 2016 . 
14. ^ ^{A b} About Our Town, Rochester, Vermont. In: rochestervermont.org. Retrieved October 15, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
16. ↑ Mt. Cushman State Forest | fpr. In: vermont.gov. fpr.vermont.gov, accessed October 15, 2016 . 
17. ^ Riley Bostwick Wildlife Management Area | fpr. In: vermont.gov. fpr.vermont.gov, accessed October 15, 2016 . 
18. ^ Rochester Public Library. In: rochestervtpubliclibrary.com. Retrieved October 15, 2016 . 
19. ↑ WNWSU. In: wnwsu.org. Retrieved October 15, 2016 .