Thetford (Vermont)

Thetford
United Church of Thetford
Location in Vermont
Thetford
Basic data
Foundation :	August 12, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orange County
Coordinates :	43 ° 50 ′  N , 72 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 50 ′  N , 72 ° 15 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	2,588 (as of 2010)
Population density :	22.9 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	114.4 km 2  (approx. 44 mi 2 ) of which 112.8 km 2  (approx. 44 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	184 m
Postal code :	05074
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-72400
GNIS ID :	1462226
Website :	straffordvt.org

Thetford is a town in Orange County , Vermont , United States with 2,588 inhabitants (2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Thetford is in the south of Orange Counties, on the New Hampshire border . This is formed by the Connecticut River , which is the border river between Vermont and New Hampshire. In the north, Lake Fairlee protrudes into the area of ​​the town, in the center is Lake Abenaki and a little northeast of this is the Mud Pond . There are also several other smaller lakes. The Ompompanoosuc River with its tributaries flows through the town in a southeastern direction, it flows into the Connecticut River. The surface is hilly, with no higher mountains. The highest point is the 506 m high, near the center of the town, High Peak . Thetford is located in central Vermont on a plateau of the Green Mountains , the so-called Upper Valley .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: West Fairlee , 2.7 mi
• Northeast: Fairlee , 5.1 mi
• East: Lyme, New Hampshire , 10.3 miles
• Southeast: Hanover, New Hampshire , 4.7 mi
• South: Norwich , 5.3 miles
• Southwest: Sharon , 20.7 km
• West: Strafford , 7.9 miles
• Northwest: Vershire , 5.9 mi

City structure

There are six unincorporated villages in the town : Thetford Hill, Thetford Center, East Thetford, North Thetford, Rice Mills, and Post Mills.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Thetford is between −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 18.3 ° C (65 ° 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

Benning Wentworth awarded the Grant for Thetford on August 12, 1761 to John Phelps and 61 other land speculators. He named the town after Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, Earl of Arlington and Euston, Viscount Thetford and Baron Sudbury . Wentworth used all titles to name Towns. Settlement began in 1764 and the first settler was John Chamberlain from Hebron, Connecticut. The town was organized with the first town assembly on May 10, 1768, and the first town clerk was Abner Howard.

In Thetford there were six post offices very early on, and these are still in operation today. The main office is located in Thetford Hill and opened in 1797. Eldad Post built the first sawmill and grist mill and handed it over to his sons in 1782. Thetford continued to develop; other shops such as an oil mill, fishing rod factory, furniture factory, and blacksmiths were opened.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Thetford, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										862
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1478	1785	1915	2113	2065	2016	1876	1613	1529	1287
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1249	1182	1089	1052	1043	1046	1049	1422	2188	2438
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	2617	2588

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Interstate 91 leads through the town in a north-south direction from Fairlee in the north to Norwich in the south. To the east of the interstate, US Highway 5 also runs in a north-south direction. The Vermont State Route 132 passes through the southern part of the Town in west-east direction from Strafford in the west to Norwich in the southeast. The Vermont State Route 113 extends centrally from the northwest to the east, West Fairlee in the northwest to the east by Lyme Thetford. The White River Junction – Lennoxville railway had a stop in Thetford.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Thetford. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover , New Hampshire, is the nearest hospital.

education

Peabody Library in Post Mills

Thetford is part of the Orange East Supervisory Union . Thetford is home to Thetford Elementary School with classes from kindergarten through sixth grade.

Thetford Academy is Vermont's oldest secondary school. Founded as Grammer School in 1819 and ratified by the State of Vermont on October 29, 1819. The Vermont Constitution provided for an elementary school in every town, a high school, a Grammer School in every county, and a university for the state. As a private school, Thetford Academy is still today a complement to the state schools.

There are five public libraries in the Town Thetford area: Latham Memorial Library near the center of Town and Thetford Academy, Peabody Library , in Post Mills, Thetford Historical Society Library, Thetford Academy Library and the Thetford Elementary School Library .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838-1921), astronomer
• Henry Wells (1805–1878), entrepreneur and co-founder of American Express and the Wells Fargo Company

Personalities who have worked on site

• Mahlon Hoagland (1921–2009), biochemist, molecular biologist and university professor
• Grace Paley (1922–2007), writer and political activist

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 170 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 1090 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

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

• Homepage of the municipality (English)
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from July 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov

Individual evidence

1. ^ Thetford in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed April 9, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ high peak . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ^ Thetford Vermont. In: thetfordvermont.us. Retrieved April 9, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Thetford, Vermont (VT 05075) 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 April 9, 2017 (English). 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Thetford, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved April 9, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Thetford . Arcadia Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4396-4932-9 , pp. 126 ( books.google.de ).
9. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( <books.google.de ).
10. ^ The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military . Miss AM Hemenway, January 1, 1871 ( books.google.de ).
11. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
12. ^ Orange East Supervisory Union. In: oesu.org. Orange East Supervisory Union, accessed April 9, 2017 . 
13. ^ Thetford Elementary School. In: thetfordschool.org. Retrieved April 9, 2017 (UK English). 
14. ↑ Our History - Thetford Academy . In: Thetford Academy . ( thetfordacademy.org ).
15. ↑ About Us. In: thetfordlibrary.org. Thetford Libraries, accessed April 9, 2017 (American English).