Topsham (Vermont)

Topsham
Town Hall in East Topsham
Location in Vermont
Topsham
Basic data
Foundation :	August 15, 1763
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orange County
Coordinates :	44 ° 10 ′  N , 72 ° 16 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 10 ′  N , 72 ° 16 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,173 (as of 2010)
Population density :	9.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	126.9 km 2  (approx. 49 mi 2 ) of which 126.7 km 2  (approx. 49 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	366 m
Postal code :	05076
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-73075
GNIS ID :	1462228

Topsham is a town in Orange County , Vermont , United States with 1,173 residents (2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Topsham is in the north of Orange County. There are only a few smaller lakes besides the Norwich Reservoir . The White River with its tributaries flows through the town in a south-easterly direction, it flows into the Connecticut River . The surface is hilly. The highest point is the 709 m high Fuller Hill in the northwest .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Groton , 2.5 km
• Northeast: Ryegate , 17.3 km
• East: Newbury 10 miles
• South: Corinth , 4.6 km
• West: Orange , 9.1 km

City structure

There are two villages in the Town area, West Topsham and East Topsham .

climate

The mean mean temperature in Topsham 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

Town Hall in West Topsham

Benning Wentworth awarded the Grant for Topsham on August 15, 1763 to George Frost and other land speculators. The town was probably named after Topsham in Maine . The settlement began in 1781. The first settlers were Thomas Chamberlain, Thomas McKaith and Samuel Furnum, they came from New Hampshire. The first sawmill was built in 1784 and the first gristmill in 1787. The town's constituent meeting took place on March 15, 1790.

In 1803 Topsham got more land. An area called Topsham Gore was added to the town of Newbury.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Topsham, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										162
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	344	814	1020	1384	1745	1668	1662	1418	1365	1187
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1117	918	825	720	707	733	638	686	767	944
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1142	1173

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

US Highway 302 runs through the northwest of the town in a north-south direction from Orange in the west to Groton in the north. The Vermont State Route 25 branches from this south toward Corinth. There is no train station in Topsham, the closest is in Montpelier .

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Topsham. The Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin is the closest hospital.

education

Former Waits River School in Topsham

Topsham is part of the Orange East Supervisory Union alongside Bradford, Newbury, Corinth and Thetford . There is no school in Topsham. Together with the students from Town Corinth, the school children from Topsham attend the Waits River Valley School , with classes from kindergarten to eighth grade.

There is no library in Topsham. The Blake Memorial Library in East Corinth is the closest library also available to residents of Topsham Town.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• FJ Mills (1865–1953), politician, Lieutenant Governor of Idaho State
• James Hamilton Peabody (1852–1917), politician, governor of the state of Colorado

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 172 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 1104 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Topsham, Vermont  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from July 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topsham in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed April 10, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ^ Fuller Hill . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ^ 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 ).
6. ↑ Topsham, Vermont (VT 05076) 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 10, 2017 (English). 
7. ^ Topsham, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved April 10, 2017 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b} Town Plan Topsham, 2012 , accessed April 10, 2017
9. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
10. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
11. ^ Orange East Supervisory Union. In: oesu.org. Orange East Supervisory Union, accessed April 10, 2017 . 
12. ^ Waits River Valley School. In: wrvschool.org. Retrieved April 10, 2017 . 
13. ^ Blake Memorial Library Vison & History - Corinth Vermont . In: Blake Memorial Library . ( blakememorial.org ).