Underhill (Vermont)
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Foundation : | June 8, 1763 | |
State : | United States | |
State : | Vermont | |
County : | Chittenden County | |
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 |
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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
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 | ||||||||||
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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
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
- 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
- ^ Underhill in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed June 8, 2017
- ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
- ↑ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical , page 175 , accessed June 8, 2017
- ^ Underhill on Virtual Vermont , accessed June 8, 2017
- ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
- ^ Underhill State Park , accessed June 8, 2017
- ↑ Mount Mansfield State Forest , accessed June 8, 2017
- ↑ Mount Mansfield Modified Union School District , accessed June 8, 2017
- ^ Underhill Central School , accessed June 8, 2017
- ^ Underhill ID School , accessed June 8, 2017
- ↑ Deborah Rawson Memorial Library , accessed June 8, 2017
- ^ Underhill Historical Society , accessed June 8, 2017