Sheffield (Vermont)

Sheffield
Town Hall
Location in Vermont
Sheffield
Basic data
Foundation :	October 25, 1793
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Caledonia County
Coordinates :	44 ° 38 ′  N , 72 ° 8 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 38 ′  N , 72 ° 8 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	703 (as of 2010)
Population density :	8.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	84.9 km 2  (approx. 33 mi 2 ) of which 84.2 km 2  (approx. 33 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	462 m
Postal code :	05866
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-64075
GNIS ID :	1462205
Website :	www.sheffieldvt.org

Sheffield is a town in Caledonia County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 703 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Sheffield is in the north of Caledonia County, in the Green Mountains . The Passumpsic River flows through the town in a southerly direction. It flows into the Connecticut River . There are several small lakes in the town area, the largest being Long Pond . The surface of the town is hilly, the highest point is the 725 m high Granby Mountain .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Barton , 3.9 mi
• East: Sutton , 5.2 mi
• South: Wheelock , 6.3 km
• West: Glover , 8.5 miles

climate

The mean mean temperature in Sheffield is between −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 20.0 ° C (68 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 9 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. The snowfall between mid-October and mid-May is more than two meters, 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, between September and mid-December it is even significantly lower.

history

In the north of Sheffield

The Sheffield Grant was made on November 7, 1780 and covered an area of ​​22,607 acres (9,149 hectares). Settlement started in 1792.

It has been suggested that Sheffield was named after Sheffield , South Yorkshire , but the town's records show no connection to Sheffield, Yorkshire. Presumably Sheffield was named more after Sheffield , Massachusetts , from which many Vermont settlers came.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Sheffield
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	170	388	581	720	821	797	836	811	884	750
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	724	691	594	543	465	451	342	307	435	541
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	727	703

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Interstate 91 runs through Sheffield, north-south, from the Canadian border to the south. Vermont State Route 122 runs parallel to it . It connects Sheffield with Glover and Lyndon.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Sheffield. The closest is Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury.

education

Sheffield is part of the Caledonia North Supervisory Union with Burke, Lyndon, Newark, Sutton and Wheelock . In Sheffield, Miller's Run School offers school classes from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. It is also attended by school children from Wheelock.

There is no library in Sheffield. The closest are in Glover and Barton.

Personalities

Personalities who have worked on site

• Galway Kinnell (1927–2014), poet and professor of literature

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . tape III . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 160 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 1 . Burlington 1867.

Web links

Commons : Sheffield, Vermont  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• City website
• Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
• Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sheffield in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed on June 29, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Granby Mountain on Peakery.com , accessed June 29, 2017
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Sheffield on the City Daty portal , accessed June 29, 2017
6. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
7. ^ Sheffield, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved June 29, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
9. ^ Caledonia North Supervisory Union , accessed June 29, 2017
10. ^ Miller's Run School , accessed June 29, 2017