Sunderland, Vermont

Sunderland
Sunderland Union Church
Location in Vermont
Sunderland
Basic data
Foundation :	June 29, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Bennington County
Coordinates :	43 ° 5 ′  N , 73 ° 6 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 5 ′  N , 73 ° 6 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	956 (as of 2010)
Population density :	8.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	118.2 km 2  (approx. 46 mi 2 ) of which 117.4 km 2  (approx. 45 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	638 m
Postcodes :	05250, 05252
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-71425
GNIS ID :	1462223
Website :	www.Sunderlandvt.org

Sunderland is a town in Bennington County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 956 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Sunderland is centrally located in Bennington County, in the Green Mountains . The Batten Kill flows through the northwest in a southerly direction . The town's smaller rivers flow west and flow into it. There are smaller lakes in the east. The largest is Branch Pond . The town's surface is very hilly with some deep gorges, and the highest point is Glastenbury Mountain North Peak, 1040 m .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Manchester , 1.7 mi
• Northeast: Winhall , 6.9 mi
• East: Stratton , 10 mi
• Southeast: Somerset , 7 mi
• South: Glastenbury 2.2 mi
• Southwest: Shaftsbury , 10.2 mi
• West: Arlington , 10.9 miles
• Northwest: Sandgate , 8 miles

climate

The mean mean temperature in Sunderland is between −7.78 ° C (18 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 18.3 ° C (65 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. At over five and a half meters, the snowfalls between October and May are almost 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 Grant for Sunderland was awarded on July 30, 1761 by Benning Wentworth as part of his New Hampshire Grants with 23,040 acres (about 93 km²). The settlement started in 1766 by settlers from Connecticut. The town's constituent assembly took place in 1769.

The grant was awarded the day after the Arlington Grant, and many of the beneficiaries are also among Arlington's. During the Revolutionary War lived Ethan and Ira Allen in Sunderland. Others of the Green Mountain Boys like Remember Baker , Thomas Chittenden and Seth Warner lived in Arlington.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Sunderland, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										414
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	557	576	496	463	437	479	567	553	655	633
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	518	494	409	375	442	493	566	601	768	872
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	850	956

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The US Highway 7 runs through the western part of the town in north-south direction from Manchester in the north to Bennington in the south, east of the Batten Kill. Vermont State Route 7A runs west of the Batten Kill .

Sunderland is on the Rutland – Hoosick Junction freight line .

Agriculture

In Sunderland, Randall cattle are raised on Samuel J. Randall's farm. It is a three-purpose cattle for milk, meat and work. Resistant, robust, intelligent and suitable for grazing.

Public facilities

Shaftsbury has no public facilities other than the usual municipal facilities and public elementary school. The closest hospital, Southwestern Medical Center , is in Bennington.

education

Sunderland is part of the Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union , along with Danby, Dorset, Langrove, Londonderry, Manchester, Mt. Tabor, Pawlet, Peru, Rupert, Weston and Winhall . Sunderland is home to Sunderland Elementary School , with classes from kindergarten through sixth grade. For further education the surrounding communities have to be approached.

There is no public library in Sunderland. The closest are in Manchester, Arlington and Wilmington.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• John Pease Sanderson (1816–1871), Vermont politician and representative in the House and Senate of Florida
• Arthur Graves Canfield (1859–1947), Romance studies and literary scholar

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 168 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 1st volume. Burlington 1867.

Web links

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

• Homepage of the municipality (English)
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from August 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sunderland in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed July 24, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ^ Glastenbury Mountain North Peak on Peakery.com , accessed July 24, 2017
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Climate data and school information at www.City-Data.com (English)
6. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
7. ^ Sunderland, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved July 24, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
9. ^ Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union , accessed July 24, 2017