Tunbridge (Vermont)

Tunbridge
Town Office Tunbridge
Location in Vermont
Tunbridge
Basic data
Foundation :	September 3, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orange County
Coordinates :	43 ° 54 ′  N , 72 ° 29 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 54 ′  N , 72 ° 29 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,286 (as of 2010)
Population density :	11.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	115.9 km 2  (approx. 45 mi 2 ) of which 115.9 km 2  (approx. 45 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	174 m
Postal code :	05077
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-73675
GNIS ID :	1462231
Website :	tunbridgevt.org

Tunbridge is a town in Orange County , Vermont , United States with 1,286 residents (2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Tunbridge is in the south of Orange County. There are no lakes in the town area. 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 575 m high, in the northwest located Tunbridge Hill .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Chelsea , 8.0 km
• Northeast: Vershire , 11 mi
• East: Strafford , 8.5 miles
• Southeast: Sharon , 4.2 mi
• South: Royalton , 5.3 mi
• Southwest: Bethel , 23.4 km
• West: Randolph , 9.3 miles
• Northwest: Brookfield , 7.5 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Tunbridge ranges from −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 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

Mill Covered Bridge

Benning Wentworth awarded the Grant for Tunbridge on September 3, 1761 to Abraham Root, Obeiah Noble and other land speculators. The town was named after William Nassau-de-Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford . The settlement started in 1771, the first settlers were James Lyon and Moses Ordway with their families. More settlers followed. The first settlers came from New Hampshire. At the "Burning of Royalton" on October 16, 1780, about 300 Indians also marched through Tunbridge and made prisoners in the town. The town was organized at the constituent assembly in March 1786.

The Tunbridge World's Fair has been held regularly in Tunbridge since 1867 . It goes back to the statutes of the town, which provided for two annual fairs for the town once the town had fifty families.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Tunbridge, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										487
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1314	1640	2003	1920	1811	1786	1546	1405	1252	1011
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	885	918	907	903	882	774	743	791	925	1154
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1309	1284

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Vermont State Route 110 runs through the town in a central north-south direction . It runs in the valley of the White River and follows the course of the river. There is no train station in Tunbridge, the closest is in Randolph.

Public facilities

There's no hospital in Tunbridge. The Gifford Medical Center in Randolph is the nearest hospital.

education

Tunbridge Library

Tunbridge is part of the White River Valley Supervisory Union with Bethel, Chelsea, Rochester, Sharon, Royalton and Stockbridge . Tunbridge Central School is located in Tunbridge .

In Tunbridge, the Tunbridge Public Library is located on Vermont State Route 110.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• David M. Camp (1788–1871), politician, lieutenant governor of the State of Vermont
• Burnham Martin (1811-1882), politician, Lieutenant Governor of the State of Vermont
• Fred Tuttle (1919–2003), dairy farmer, actor and Republican candidate for the Senate in 1998

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 174 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 1114 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Tunbridge, Vermont  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Community website
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from July 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tunbridge in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed April 12, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ^ Tunbridge Hill . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Tunbridge, Vermont (VT 05077) profiles: 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 12, 2017 (English). 
6. ↑ Tunbridge, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved April 12, 2017 . 
7. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
8. ↑ Town Plan of Tunbridge , accessed April 12, 2017
9. ^ The Tunbridge Fair. In: tunbridgeworldsfair.com. The Tunbridge Fair, accessed April 12, 2017 (American English). 
10. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
11. ^ White River Valley Supervisory Union | Vermont. In: wrvsu.org. Retrieved April 12, 2017 (American English). 
12. ↑ Chelsea Public School | Learning. Community. Respect. | Chelsea, VT. In: chelseaschoolvt.org. Retrieved April 12, 2017 (American English). 
13. ↑ Home. In: tunbridgelibrary.org. Tunbridge Public Library, accessed April 12, 2017 (American English).