Searsburg

Searsburg
Picnic area in Searsburg
Location in Vermont
Searsburg
Basic data
Foundation :	February 23, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Bennington County
Coordinates :	42 ° 53 ′  N , 72 ° 58 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 53 ′  N , 72 ° 58 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	109 (as of 2010)
Population density :	2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	55.9 km 2  (approx. 22 mi 2 ) of which 55.5 km 2  (approx. 21 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	676 m
Postal code :	05201
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	63175
GNIS ID :	1462202
Website :	Searsburg on vermont.gov
Post Office Searsburg

Searsburg is a town in Bennington County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 109 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Searsburg is located in northeast Bennington County, on the border with Windham County in the Green Mountains . The Deerfield River flows through the town in a south-easterly direction, coming from Somerset, through the Searsburg Reservoir into the Hariman Reservoir in Wilmington. The surface of the town is very hilly and the highest point is the 1050 m high Haystack Mountain , the summit of which is in the area of ​​the town of Wilmington, whose western slopes belong to Searsburg.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Somerset , 2.1 miles
• Northeast: Dover , 8.2 mi
• East: Wilmington , 6.2 mi
• South: Readsboro , 7.9 miles
• West: Woodford , 8 miles
• North West: Glastenbury , 7.9 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Searsburg is between −7.78 ° C (18 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 18.3 ° C (65 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. At over five and a half meters, the snowfalls between October and May are almost 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

The Grant for Searsburg was given on February 23, 1781 by Thomas Chittenden and the Vermont Republic to William Williams and twenty-seven others. It covered an area of ​​10,240 acres (4,144 hectares ).

In Grant, Searsburg was still spelled Searsburgh , the h was dropped in the course of time. The town was created by separating the northern part of Readsboro. The reason for this is not known. It wasn't until about 20 years later that the town was surveyed by John Marks, and settlement started around 1822 when Benno Davis cleared a strip of land. It is reported that Samual Hollman was the first settler to be there in 1812, but there is no record of this. It is not known what the name Searsburg comes from. Possibly wanted the legislature of Vermont to honor the New York merchant Isaac Sears.

The constituent assembly took place on March 18, 1833. The town benefited from the construction of the Searsburg Turnpike from Wilmington to Bennington in 1830 and was able to grow to more than 200 residents. A hotel was also built. This burned down in 1871 and was not rebuilt. Several mills were built in the following years.

In the south of Searsburg there is a six megawatt wind turbine owned by Green Mountain Power. It consists of 11 windmills and is part of a research facility for wind energy. Another plant, including some in the Town Readsboro area, consisting of 15 turbines is planned.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Searsburg, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents			9	40	120	201	262	235	232	173
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	161	142	133	103	135	84	73	84	72	85
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	96	109

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont State Route 9 , also known as Molly Stark Trail, running from west to east through the town. It runs from Woodford in the west to Wilmington in the east. From here the Vermont State Route 8 branches south to Stamford, or further on the Vermont State Route 100 to Readsboro.

Public facilities

There is no hospital of its own in Searsburg. The closest competent hospital is Southwestern Medical Center in Bennington.

education

Searsburg is part of the Windham Southwest Supervisory Union . There is no school of its own in Searsburg. Searsburg school children attend schools in Readsboro or Wilmington.

The closest public library to town residents is the Pettee Memorial Central Library in Wilmington.

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 159 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemmenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870. For history up to 1848.

Web links

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

• Parish entry on Vermont state website
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from July 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Searsburg in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed July 23, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Haystack Mountain on Peakery.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 23, 2017  
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Climate data and school information for Rupert at www.City-Data.com (English)
6. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
7. ↑ ^{a b} WebCite query result. In: webcitation.org. Retrieved July 23, 2017 . 
8. ^ Searsburg, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved July 23, 2017 . 
9. ^ Central Vermont Public Service to purchase Deerfield Wind power | Vermont Business Magazine. In: vermontbiz.com. Retrieved July 23, 2017 . 
10. ^ Northeast Wind. In: verarenewables.com. Retrieved July 23, 2017 (UK English). 
11. ↑ Population 1820–2010 according to census results
12. ^ Windham Southwest Supervisory Union , accessed July 23, 2017