Underhill (Vermont)

Underhill
St. Thomas Church
Location in Vermont
Underhill
Basic data
Foundation :	June 8, 1763
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Chittenden County
Coordinates :	44 ° 32 ′  N , 72 ° 55 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 32 ′  N , 72 ° 55 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	3,016 (as of 2010)
Population density :	22.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	133.1 km 2  (approx. 51 mi 2 ) of which 133.0 km 2  (approx. 51 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	320 m
Postcodes :	05489-05490
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-73975
GNIS ID :	1462232
Website :	www.underhillvt.gov

Underhill is a town in Chittenden County of the State of Vermont in the United States , with 3,016 inhabitants (according to census 2010).

geography

Geographical location

Underhill is in northeast Chittenden County, on the western edge of the Green Mountains . The area of ​​the town is hilly and Vermont's highest mountain, the 1339 m high Mount Mansfield is in the east of the town. The Browns River rises on the western slopes of Mount Mansfield and flows west through the south of the town. There are only a few small lakes in the area of ​​the town.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Cambridge , 8.0 km
• East: Stowe , 12 miles
• South: Bolton , 2.9 mi
• Southwest: Jericho , 5.5 mi
• West: Essex , 13.8 miles
• Northwest: Westford , 8.4 mi

climate

The average temperature in Underhill ranges from -11.7 ° C (11 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 17.2 ° C (63 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This makes the place about 2 degrees cooler compared to the long-term mean of Vermont. The snowfalls between October and May peak in January and are significantly higher than the mean snow depth in the USA. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range of values ​​in the USA, in the period from September to December it is sometimes significantly lower.

history

Mount Mansfield

Underhill was proclaimed on June 8, 1763 by Benning Wentworth as part of New Hampshire with an area of ​​6 by 6 miles, corresponding to the usual 23,040 acres (about 93.2 km²). Joseph Sacket and others received the grant. Settlement of Underhill began in 1786 after the area was surveyed in 1785. On March 9, 1795, the town's constituent assembly took place. In 1839 the western part of Mansfield was added to the town of Underhill.

Even if the name Underhill could go back to the place name under the hill is meant the location below Mount Mansfield, the name of the town either goes back to Benjamin Underhill or Underhill Horten, or both. Several members of the Underhill family have received grants from the Onion River Company . Apparently neither Wentworth nor the grant takers knew the area. Mansfield Town was founded on the same day as Underhill. This was divided in half by Mount Mansfield and it was not possible to get from one side of the town to the other. Mansfield was divided in 1839 and the western part of Underhill and the eastern part of Stowe were added.

Underhill was on the 1877 from 1938 operated railway line Burlington Cambridge Junction .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Underhill
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										65
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	212	490	633	1052	1441	1599	1637	1655	1439	1301
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1140	1004	896	781	760	698	730	1198	2172	2799
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	2980	3016

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont State Route 15 runs north-south through the Western Town. It connects Underhill with Jericho in the south and Cambridge in the north. Otherwise there are only a few smaller roads.

Public facilities

There's no hospital in Underhill. The University of Vermont Medical Center at Burlington is the closest hospital.

tourism

Mount Mansfield

The Underhill State Park is located on the western slopes of the highest mountain Vermont, the Mount Mansfield and Mount Mansfield State Forest , which extends over 44,444 acres extends in several Towns, takes another room into Underhill. Together with the ski area in Stowe, they form the framework for tourism in the region.

education

Underhill is part of the Mount Mansfield Modified Union School District with Bolton, Huntington, Jericho and Richmond . In Underhill, Underhill Central School and Underhill ID School offer education from kindergarten through fourth grade.

The Deborah Rawson Memorial Library has several predecessors in Jericho and Underhill. It opened in 1998 as the successor to the Waters Memorial Library .

Underhill's other facilities include the Underhill Historical Society .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Thomas Cale (1848–1941), politician and Alaskan representative in the US House of Representatives

Personalities who have worked on site

• Robert Rosser (* 1969), biathlete

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . tape III . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 175 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 1 . Burlington 1867, p. 854 ff .

Web links

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

• Homepage of the municipality (English)
• Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from November 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Underhill in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed June 8, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Mount Mansfield on Peakery.com ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 8 
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
6. ↑ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical , page 175 , accessed June 8, 2017
7. ^ Underhill on Virtual Vermont , accessed June 8, 2017
8. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
9. ^ Underhill State Park , accessed June 8, 2017
10. ↑ Mount Mansfield State Forest , accessed June 8, 2017
11. ↑ Mount Mansfield Modified Union School District , accessed June 8, 2017
12. ^ Underhill Central School , accessed June 8, 2017
13. ^ Underhill ID School , accessed June 8, 2017
14. ↑ Deborah Rawson Memorial Library , accessed June 8, 2017
15. ^ Underhill Historical Society , accessed June 8, 2017