Somerset (Vermont)

Somerset
The Somerset Reservoir
Location in Vermont
Somerset
Basic data
Foundation :	September 9, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Windham County
Coordinates :	42 ° 58 ′  N , 72 ° 58 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 58 ′  N , 72 ° 58 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	3 (as of 2010)
Population density :	0 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	72.9 km 2  (approx. 28 mi 2 ) of which 67.6 km 2  (approx. 26 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	610 m
Postal code :	05201
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-65762
GNIS ID :	1461418

Somerset is a Unincorporated Town Town in Windham County in the state of Vermont in the United States . Somerset has three residents according to the 2010 census .

geography

Geographical location

Somerset is centrally located on the western border of Windham Counties in the Green Mountains . In the north is the Somerset Reservoir and in the west the 1092 m high Mount Snow . Part of the Mount Snow ski area is in the Somerset area. The Deerfield River flows through the township from north to south and with the East Branch Deerfield River also drains the Somerset Reservoir. In Somerset there are only three roads that National Forest Road, the Somerset Road and the Castle Brook Road.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Stratton , 3.9 mi
• East: Dover , 8.6 miles
• Southeast: Wilmington , 7.7 mi
• South: Searsburg , 2.1 miles
• Southwest: Woodford : 7.6 miles
• West: Glastenbury 7.1 miles
• Northwest: Sunderland , 7 mi

climate

The average temperature in Somerset ranges from −8 ° C (16 ° F ) in January to 18.3 ° C (65 ° F) in July. The snowfall between October and May is up to half a meter (17 inches ) 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

Somerset Schoolhouse

The grant to found Somerset went to 62 settlers and the town was founded on September 9, 1761. The first land buyers probably did not know much about the local conditions when they bought the land. The area of ​​the town is located in the Green Mountains and is very inaccessible. Even today there is only one road that comes from the south to the Somerset Reservoir and some holiday homes, as well as a forest path.

Benning Wentworth named the town either after the Dukes of Somerset or after the county of Somerset in England . Few families settled in Somerset, in 1850 over 300 people lived there. There was never a village or a cluster of settlements. In 1937 the town of Somerset was dissolved by the Vermont Legislature and declared an Official Wilderness . Three people still live in Somerset today.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Somerset, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	130	199	173	245	262	321	105	80	67	61
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	67	27	59	20th	5	8th	4th	4th	2	2
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	5	3

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Lyman Enos Knapp (1837–1904), politician and Governor of the District of Alaska

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in Three Parts . Part 3. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 163 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

• 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. ^ Somerset in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed May 22, 2016
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Town of Somerset (Windham County, Vermont): Summarized Details. In: roadsidethoughts.com. Retrieved May 22, 2016 . 
4. ^ Mount Snow. In: peakery.com. Retrieved May 22, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
6. ↑ Climate, school and employment data at www.City-Data.com (English)
7. ↑ Somerset, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved May 22, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results