Southwest Harbor

Southwest Harbor
Town Office of Southwest Harbor
Location in Maine
Southwest Harbor
Basic data
Foundation :	February 21, 1905
State :	United States
State :	Maine
County :	Hancock County
Coordinates :	44 ° 15 ′  N , 68 ° 19 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 15 ′  N , 68 ° 19 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,764 (as of 2010)
Population density :	50.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	58.77 km 2  (approx. 23 mi 2 ) of which 34.99 km 2  (approx. 14 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	36 m
Postcodes :	04656, 04679
Area code :	+1 207
FIPS :	23-72865
GNIS ID :	0582740
Website :	www.southwestharbormaine.org
Sunset in Southwest Harbor

Southwest Harbor is a town in Hancock County in the state of Maine in the United States . In 2010 there lived 1764 inhabitants in 835 households on an area of ​​58.77 km².

geography

According to the United States Census Bureau , Southwest Harbor has a total area of ​​58.77 km², of which 34.99 km² is land and 23.78 km² is made up of water .

Geographical location

Southwest Harbor is located on Mount Desert Island in Penobscot Bay off the coast of Main in the Atlantic Ocean , centrally in the south of Hancock County. It occupies the southwestern part of the island. The largest lake in the town is Long Pond . The Somes Sound extends to the east of Southwest Harbor. The surface in the north of the town is hilly and the highest point is the 326 m high Bernard Mountain . A large part of the area is taken up by Acadia National Park. Several islands belong to the area of ​​the town. The most famous is Greening Island .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Mount Desert , 2.3 mi
• East: Cranberry Isles , 5.8 miles
• South: Frenchboro , 8.4 km
• West: Tremont , 16.2 km

City structure

There are several settlement areas in Southwest Harbor: Manset , Seawall , Southwest Harbor, and Wonderland .

climate

The mean mean temperature in Southwest Harbor ranges from −6.1 ° C (21 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 20.6 ° C (69 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 6 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. The snowfalls between October and May are up to two and a half meters, more than 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 history of settlement on Mount Desert Island began in 1604 by Pierre Dugua de Mons . In 1688, Louis XIV gave the island of Mount Desert as a grant with additional areas to Antoine de la Motte Cadillac . Laumet was an officer in his service, later governor of Louisiana. Cadillac could not hold its own in the country and left it in 1713. His descendant Madame de Gregoire claimed the land in 1785 before the General Court of Massachusetts. However, this confirmed the claim minus the land that was currently settled by settlers.

Fernalds Point on Somes Sound near the northern border of the town is likely the location of the former “St. Sauveur ”, a settlement founded by Madame de Guercheville in 1613. A cluster of seashells nearby should also be an indication of an Indian settlement.

Southwest Harbor was organized as an independent town on February 21, 1905 from the area of ​​the town of Tremont. The name is derived from the opposite port in Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor. First of all, the favorable location on Somes Sound was used by fishermen. Fishing has been the main economic driver of Southwest Harbor. When the town of Tremont separated from the town of Mount Desert in 1848 under the name of Mansel, the area of ​​Southwest Harbor also belonged to this new town. It was split off and organized independently in 1905 due to disputes about a new school.

Mount Desert Island with its towns developed into a popular holiday destination at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Wealthy American families like the Rockefellers and the Astors owned vacation homes here.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Southwest Harbor, Maine
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents		888	824	888	1260	1534	1480	1657	1855	1952
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1966	1764

Culture and sights

Buildings

In Southwest Harbor, a historic site and several buildings have been listed and listed on the National Register of Historic Places .

Historic site

• Fernald Point Prehistoric Sitet , recorded 1978, register no. 78000164

building

• Claremont Hotel , recorded in 1978, register no. 78000162
• Edgecliff , recorded in 2013, register no. 13000835
• Raventhorp , recorded in 1988, register no. 87002195
• Seawall Campground , recorded 2007, register no. 07000613

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Maine State Route 102 runs from Bar Harbor starting south through Southwest Harbor.

Public facilities

There are several medical facilities and hospitals in Bar Harbor and Ellsworth.

The Southwest Harbor Public Library is located in Southwest Harbor . The library building was constructed in 1895 and the library was established in 1884 when Annie Sawyer Downs took some old books from the vacationers' summer homes and put them on a shelf in Dr. RJ Lemont interpreted.

education

The Southwest Harbor School Department is responsible for school education in Southwest Harbor; Southwest Harbor is also part of Mt Desert CSD and, with Bar Harbor, Bass Harbor, Cranberry Isles, Deer Isle, Frenchboro, Mount Desert, Swan's Island and Trenton, part of Mount Desert Island Regional School System - AOS 91 .

In Southwest Harbor there is the Pemetic Elementary School with classes from Kindergarten through 8th grade.

Web links

Commons : Southwest Harbor, Maine  - Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files

• Official website of Southwest Harbor (English)
• Southwest Harbor on Maine.gov
• Southwest Harbor on City-Data.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Southwest Harbor in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed June 23, 2018
2. ↑ Maine 2010 Census Results ; official publication of the Census Authority, (English; PDF; 32.5 MB)
3. ^ Bernard Mountain. In: peakery.com. Retrieved June 23, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ^ ^{A b} Southwest Harbor, Hancock County | Maine Genealogy. In: mainegenealogy.net. Retrieved June 23, 2018 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Southwest Harbor, Maine (ME 04679) 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 June 23, 2018 (English). 
7. ↑ ^{a b} History of Mount Desert, Maine. In: rays-place.com. history.rays-place.com, accessed June 10, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Historical records: Early island ownership - Mount Desert Islander . In: Mount Desert Islander . 2017 ( mdislander.com ).
9. ^ History of Tremont, Maine. In: rays-place.com. history.rays-place.com, accessed June 23, 2018 . 
10. ^ History. In: homestead.com. southwestharbor.homestead.com, accessed June 23, 2018 . 
11. ^ Bar Harbor . In: Maine: An Encyclopedia . 2011 ( maineanencyclopedia.com ).
12. ↑ Population 1910–2010 according to census results
13. ↑ Southwest Harbor Library on Mt.Desert Island in Maine. In: swhplibrary.org. Retrieved June 23, 2018 . 
14. ↑ Local: Maine.gov. In: maine.gov. Retrieved May 13, 2018 (American English). 
15. ↑ Mount Desert Island Regional School System MDIRSS AOS91. In: mdirss.org. Retrieved June 2, 2018 .