Starksboro

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Starksboro
The Meeting House in Starksboro
The Meeting House in Starksboro
Location in Vermont
Starksboro (Vermont)
Starksboro
Starksboro
Basic data
Foundation : November 7, 1780
State : United States
State : Vermont
County : Addison County
Coordinates : 44 ° 14 ′  N , 72 ° 59 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 14 ′  N , 72 ° 59 ′  W
Time zone : Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents : 1,777 (as of 2010)
Population density : 15 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 118.8 km 2  (approx. 46 mi 2 ) of
which 118.3 km 2  (approx. 46 mi 2 ) is land
Height : 522 m
Postal code : 05487
Area code : +1 802
FIPS : 50-70075
GNIS ID : 1462217
Website : www.StarksboroVT.org

Starksboro is a town in Addison County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 1,777 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

The community is on the western flank of the Green Mountains on the southeastern edge of the plain around Lake Champlain . It is mountainous and criss-crossed by many small watercourses that flow into Otter Creek , which flows to the west . Of the mountains, Hillsboro Mountain, Norton Hill, East Mountain, and Shaker Mountain are worth mentioning; all are about 2,450 feet tall (about 750 meters).

Neighboring communities

All information as air lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Starksboro is between −9.4 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 18.9 ° C (66 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. At more than five and a half meters, the snowfall between mid-October and mid-May is 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, from September to December it is even significantly lower.

history

Due to its location in the foothills of the Green Mountains, the area had not been taken into account in the previous settlement spurts; the towns in the area founded in the years up to 1764 had been placed in the fertile plain of Lake Champlain, where intensive agriculture seemed possible. Starksboro, on the other hand, was only proclaimed settlement by the Parliament of the Republic after the establishment of the Vermont Republic , the predecessor of today's Vermont. This happened on November 7, 1780; just two days later the area had been sold to a group of 68 settlers. The area was divided into 73 parcels of 242 acres each. The settlement did not begin until April 1788; as early as 1790 the city's first justice of the peace was appointed. The constituent city assembly took place in March 1796.

On March 4, 1797 part of the area of ​​the neighboring municipality of Monkton was added to the area of ​​Starksboros (2726 acres, corresponding to 11 km²). From 1798 the place was represented by its own representative in the Congress of Vermont. Between 1798 and 1812 four different religious communities were founded in the village. In the mid-1840s, several settlers emerged filing claims from a British land sale in 1774; but they were rejected.

When the railways crossed Vermont from 1845 onwards, Starksboro was not connected: there was no industry to serve. Instead, sheep was raised in the areas on the plain that Monkton had added, and dairy farming began to grow in the third quarter of the 19th century. The forested areas were used with relatively little timber; the watercourses from the mountains were used intensively by flour mills and sawmills.

Since the 1960s, Starksboro, like some neighboring communities, has increasingly developed into a dormitory city for the northern metropolitan area of Burlington and has more than tripled its population in the last 50 years. The local economy has not changed significantly as a result; it is still primarily oriented towards agriculture and forestry.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Starksboro, Vermont
year 1700 1710 1720 1730 1740 1750 1760 1770 1780 1790
Residents 40
year 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890
Residents 359 726 914 1342 1263 1400 1437 1361 1249 1070
year 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990
Residents 902 835 806 687 744 576 502 668 1336 1511
year 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 2060 2070 2080 2090
Residents 1898 1777

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The parish is not on any freeway, but Vermont State Route 116 runs through the area to the west. It connects Starksboro with Hinesburg in the north and Bristol in the south. In addition, the Vermont State Route 17 pass road , which leads over the Camels Hump and its ski area to Fayston and Waitsfield in the east, crosses the area of ​​the town in the south.

Public facilities

With the exception of the usual municipal facilities and primary school, Starksboro has no public facilities. The closest hospital, Fletcher-Allen-Health Care, is in Burlington.

education

Starksboro is part of the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union with Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton, New Haven and Mt. Abraham .

The town has one elementary school, the Robinson School, with classes from kindergarten through sixth grade. For all secondary schools, local communities, particularly Burlington, must be served.

The Starksboro Public Library is located on Vermont Route 116.

Personalities

Personalities who have worked on site

literature

Web links

Commons : Starksboro, Vermont  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Starksboro in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed October 1, 2014
  2. Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
  3. Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
  4. Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
  5. Starksboro Town Plan 2011 - 2016 (English)
  6. Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
  7. ANESU. In: anesu.org. Retrieved July 28, 2017 .
  8. ^ Robinson Elementary School. In: revt.org. Retrieved July 28, 2017 .
  9. Starksboro Public Library. In: wordpress.com. Starksboro Public Library, accessed July 28, 2017 (American English).