St. Johnsbury

St. Johnsbury
St. Johnsbury Police and Fire Brigade
Location in Vermont
St. Johnsbury
Basic data
Foundation :	November 1, 1786
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Caledonia County
Coordinates :	44 ° 28 ′  N , 72 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 28 ′  N , 72 ° 0 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	7,603 (as of 2010)
Population density :	80.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	95.2 km 2  (approx. 37 mi 2 ) of which 94.3 km 2  (approx. 36 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	187 m
Postcodes :	05819, 05838, 05863
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-62200
GNIS ID :	1462199
Website :	http://stjvt.com/
Mayor :	John Hall (Town Manager)

St. Johnsbury is a town in Caledonia County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 7,603 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census). As the county seat , it is both the political and economic center of its region.

geography

Geographical location

St. Johnsbury is in the east of Caledonia County, in the eastern part of the Green Mountains , near the border with the state of New Hampshire . In the center of St. Johnsbury, the Moose River flows into the Passumpsic River . Many other tributaries of the Passumpsic River flow through the town. There are no lakes of any size in the town's territory. The surface of the town is hilly, the highest point is Mount Pisgah, 439 m high .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Lyndon , 2.1 miles
• Northeast: Kirby , 5.3 mi
• East: Concord , 18.0 km
• Southeast: Waterford , 5.3 mi
• South: Barnet , 8.5 km
• West: Danville , 8.4 miles
• Northwest: Wheelock , 11 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in St. Johnsbury 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

Superior Court

The area of ​​today's St. Johnsbury was proclaimed as part of the neighboring state of New Hampshire for settlement as early as 1760 under the name "Bessborough", but this did not lead to any notable success. It was not until 1786 that it was advertised again for reclamation under the name "Dunmore", this time from Vermont, and settled from the following year. The administrative structure was established in 1790; on this occasion the settlement was given its current name. It was named after Jean de Créveœur, a friend of Benjamin Franklin and a supporter of revolutionary America. At that time there were 143 people living in the St. Johnsbury area.

In 1856, St. Johnsbury was named a county seat instead of Danville . At that time the city was developing into an industrial center for the area; in addition, it became a railway junction.

The public library, a foundation owned by Horace Fairbanks , a city entrepreneur and temporarily governor of Vermont, was expanded with its own art gallery in 1873. This facility is still preserved in its original form today under the name "Athenaeum". The “Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium” has also been preserved in its Victorian architecture and still gives evidence of the city's self-image as the cultural and technological center of New England during this period.

religion

North Congregational Church

In St. Johnsbury there is a diverse church landscape that has a very strong influence on daily life. In addition to three congregations of the United Church of Christ , one congregation each of the Methodists , the Episcopal and the Assemblies of God are represented. There are also a Roman Catholic and a Mosaic congregation in the area.

Population development

Census Results - Town of St. Johnsbury
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										143
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	663	1334	1404	1592	1887	2758	3469	4665	5800	6567
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	7010	8098	8708	9696	9095	9292	8869	8409	7938	7608
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	7571	7603

Culture and sights

Museums

Fairbanks Museum

The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium was founded in 1891 by Franklin Fairbanks. The museum and its buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places . There is also a meteorological department in it. It's called Eye on the Sky . Meteorologists compile weather forecasts for Vermont here. The forecasts are broadcast on local radio stations and for three local newspapers, the Caledonian Record , the Times Argus and the Rutland Herald .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Interstate 91 runs in a north-south direction by St. Johnsbury. From here, Interstate 93 branches off in an easterly direction south of the town border . In the center of St. Johnsbury, US Highway 5 , which runs in a north-south direction, and US Highway 2, which runs in a west-east direction, cross . St. Johnsbury is connected to the railway network by the White River Junction – Lennoxville railway and the Lunenburg – Maquam railway .

Public facilities

The Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury is the regional hospital for the residents of St. Johnsburys and the neighboring Towns.

education

St. Johnsbury Athenæum

St. Johnsbury is a separate school district. The St. Johnsbury School is located in St. Johnsbury . It offers classes from pre-kindergarten to the eighth grade for 600 school children. The St. Johnsbury Academy is a private high school with boarding facilities. It was founded in 1842 by Thaddeus Fairbanks and offers 220 pupils classes from the eighth to the twelfth year of school.

The St. Johnsbury Athenæum is a library with extraordinary architecture that was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1996 . It was a gift from Horace Fairbanks to the Town of St. Johnsbury. He also added his private art collection to her.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Lemuel H. Arnold (1792–1852), politician and governor of Rhode Island
• Charles E. Gibson (born 1925), politician and Attorney General of Vermont
• Ellery Albee Hibbard (1826–1903), politician in the House of Representatives
• Frederick G. Fleetwood (1868–1938), House of Representatives politician
• Robert Holbrook Smith (1879–1950), physician and co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous

Personalities who have worked on site

• Luther Jewett (1772–1860), politician and publisher of two newspapers in St. Johnsbury
• Horace Fairbanks (1820–1888), Vermont Governor, entrepreneur and founder of the St. Johnsbury Library

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . tape III . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 157 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 1 . Burlington 1867.

Web links

Commons : St. Johnsbury, Vermont  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Website of the Town of St. Johnsbury Vermont (English)
• 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. ↑ Town of Saint Johnsbury in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . Retrieved March 18, 2012
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Mount Pisgah on Peakery.com , accessed June 12, 2017
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ St. Johnsbury on the City Daty portal , accessed June 10, 2017
6. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
7. ^ Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium , accessed June 12, 2017
8. ↑ St. Johnsbury School District ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 12, 2017 
9. ↑ St. Johnsbury School ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 12, 2017 
10. ^ St. Johnsbury Academy , accessed June 12, 2017
11. ^ Athenaeum , accessed June 12, 2017