Rutland (Vermont)

Rutland
Old State House
Location in Vermont
Rutland
Basic data
Foundation :	September 7, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Rutland County
Coordinates :	43 ° 38 ′  N , 72 ° 59 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 38 ′  N , 72 ° 59 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	4,054 (as of 2010)
Population density :	81.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	50.0 km 2  (approx. 19 mi 2 ) of which 49.9 km 2  (approx. 19 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	197 m
Postal code :	05701
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-61300
GNIS ID :	1461361
Website :	www.RutlandTown.com

Rutland is a town in Rutland County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 4054 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Rutland is located in the center of Rutland County and west of the Green Mountains in the wide valley of Otter Creek . The terrain of the town is hilly, especially in the north, but without any significant elevations. In the center of the town of Rutland is Rutland City .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Pittsford , 7 miles
• North-east: Chittenden , 14 km
• East: Mendon , 3.7 miles
• South: Clarendon , 10 km
• West: West Rutland , 6 km
• North-west: Proctor , 6 km

climate

The mean mean temperature in Rutland is between −6.7 ° C (20 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 21.7 ° C (71 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. At more than two meters, the snowfall between October and May is considerably higher than the average snow depth in the USA, the daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA. In the period from mid-October to mid-December, it was even considerably lower.

history

Rutland was proclaimed settlement on September 7, 1761 by Benning Wentworth . The area consisted of particularly good pasture and farmland, whose affiliation was controversial from the beginning: the state of New York had also declared it for settlement. Only the War of Independence (1775–1783) pushed the question into the background.

Center Rutland Falls, about 1905

The discovery of marble deposits around 1840 and the development of the area by railroad, which from 1849 onwards connected Rutland as the Rutland Railway on the Bellows Falls – Burlington railway line in all four directions with the important places on the east coast and New England , made the area very quickly purely agricultural area, which was particularly known for its merino sheep , became an industrial center. Between 1850 and 1880, Rutland's population quadrupled. The Rutland tram was opened in 1885 and was intended to provide local public transport to the city until the end of 1924.

The rapid development led to the division of the original area into four areas: in 1886 West Rutland and Proctor became independent with the large marble quarries, the main town Rutland and its railway junction became a village , still without its own administration. This was made up for in 1892: the main town was made an independent city . Within six years, Rutland had given up not only half of its area and three quarters of its population, but also the most important marble quarries and its industrial center.

The slow economic decline of the main town in the course of the global economic crisis from 1929 and after the Second World War left the town of Rutland only with the original industry: the fertile land. Today Rutland is again a primarily agricultural area without large industrial settlements.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Rutland, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										1407
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	2125	2379	2369	2753	2708	3715	7577	9834	12,149	11,760
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1109	1311	1270	1387	1350	1416	1542	2248	3300	3781
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	4038	4054

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Rutland is connected by US Highway 7 , which runs north to south through the village, with Pittsford in the north and Clarendon in the south. The US Highway 4 branches in the south on the Highway 7 and leads to West Rutland. There is an Amtrak station in Rutland .

Public facilities

The closest hospital is the Rutland Regional Medical Center in Rutland .

education

Rutland is part of the Rutland Central Supervisory Union . Rutland Town Elementary School is located in Rutland . The school offers classes from kindergarten through elementary school to middle school with the eighth grade. The school also has a library.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• John Deere (1804–1886), farrier, inventor of the steel plow and company founder
• James Meacham (1810–1856), politician and MP in the House of Representatives
• John B. Page (1826–1885), governor of Vermont
• Percival W. Clement (1846–1927), governor of Vermont
• Charles Manley Smith (1868–1937), governor of Vermont
• Lewis Sheldon (1874-1960), track and field athlete
• Richard Sheldon (1878-1935), track and field athlete
• Lawrence C. Jones (1893–1972), politician and Attorney General of Vermont
• Jeffrey Amestoy (born 1946), Vermont Attorney General and Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
• Leslie Smith (* 1958), alpine ski racer
• Suzy Chaffee (* 1946), alpine ski racer and actress
• Dan Tyminski (* 1967), musician
• Sophie Caldwell (* 1990), cross-country skier

Personalities who have worked on site

• Jesse Buel (1778–1839), newspaper publisher and politician
• Charles K. Williams (1782-1853), politician and governor of Vermont
• Solomon Foot (1802–1866), Congressman
• Frank C. Partridge (1861-1943), US Senator

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 153 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: Gazetteer of Rutland County . Burlington 1877.

Web links

Commons : Rutland (town), Vermont  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Homepage of the municipality (English)
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Site of the Rutlands Historical Society (English)
• Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from November 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rutland Town in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . Retrieved March 2, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
4. ↑ Rutland, Vermont (VT 05701, 05736) 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 March 2, 2017 (English). 
5. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
6. ^ Rutland Central Supervisory Union. In: rcsu.org. Retrieved March 2, 2017 . 
7. ^ Rutland Town School. In: rcsu.org. rts.rcsu.org, accessed March 2, 2017 .