Wallagrass
| Wallagrass | |||
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Location in Maine
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 4th June 1979 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Maine | ||
| County : | Aroostook County | ||
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 9 ′ N , 68 ° 37 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 546 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 5.3 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 105.7 km 2 (approx. 41 mi 2 ) of which 103.9 km 2 (approx. 40 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 257 m | ||
| Postal code : | 04781 | ||
| Area code : | +1 207 | ||
| FIPS : | 23-79865 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 00582788 | ||
Wallagrass is a town in Aroostook County in the state of Maine in the United States . Wallagrass was originally founded by Acadian settlers under the name Hancock Plantation and was administered as a plantation until 1979 . In 2010, 546 people lived there in 309 households on an area of 105.7 km².
geography
According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has an area of 105.7 km²; 103.9 km² of this is land and 1.8 km² is water .
Geographical location
Wallagrass is located between Eagle Lake on the lake of the same name in the south and Fort Kent in the north. The Fish River , the outlet of Eagle Lake, flows north through Wallagrass and joins the Saint John River at Fort Kent . The land is mostly hilly and forested. The highest point is the 356 m high Michaud Hill .
Neighboring communities
All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.
- North: Fort Kent , 3.9 miles
- East: New Canada , 8.7 mi
- South: Eagle Lake , 3.7 mi
- West: St. John Plantation , 8.5 mi
City structure
Wallagrass has several settlement areas: Belanger Settlement , Daigle (former railway station), Labby , Michaud (former railway station), Plourde Mill , Soldier Pond , Sutton (former railway station), Wallagrass and Wallagrass station .
climate
The mean mean temperature in Wallagrass is between −13.3 ° C (8 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 16.7 ° C (62 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. At over five and a half meters, the snowfalls between October and May are almost twice as high as the average snow depth in the USA, the daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.
history
The original name for this area was Township 17 Seventh Range West of the Easterly Line of the State (T17 R7 WELS). First organized as Hancock Plantation with the New Canada Area in 1840 to give residents the right to vote, it was spun off from Hancock Plantation in 1850 as Walagrass Plantation . This was confirmed in 1863, the spelling was changed to Wallagrass Plantation . Confirmed again in 1970 and 1871. Wallagrass became a town on June 4, 1979.
Population development
| Census Results - Town of Wallagrass, Maine | ||||||||||
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| year | 1800 | 1810 | 1820 | 1830 | 1840 | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 |
| Residents | 297 | 431 | 595 | |||||||
| year | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 |
| Residents | 784 | 1004 | 1144 | 1145 | 1123 | 1035 | 818 | 617 | 653 | 582 |
| year | 2000 | 2010 | 2020 | 2030 | 2040 | 2050 | 2060 | 2070 | 2080 | 2090 |
| Residents | 561 | 546 | ||||||||
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
By Wallagrass runs parallel to the north to south Fish River , the Maine State Route 11 . It connects Wallagrass with Fort Kent in the north and Ashland in the south.
Public facilities
Wallagrass does not have its own library. The closest is in Fort Kent.
Fort Kent has a private hospital, the Northern Maine Medical Center , which is also a contact point for the residents of Wallagrass.
education
Wallagrass is part of the Maine School Administrative District # 27 with Allagash, Eagle Lake, Fort Kent, Saint Francis, Saint John Plantation, New Canada and the Winterville Plantation .
There are several schools in the school district for school children:
- Community High School in Fort Kent
- Eagle Lake Elementary School in Eagle Lake
- Fort Kent Elementary School in Fort Kent
- Saint Francis Elementary School in Saint Francis
- Wallagrass Elementary School in Wallagrass
literature
- Richard Edward Wilson: The Labbes of Wallagrass and Brunswick, Maine. A Study in Landscape, Community, and Family. 1997, (Vermont College of Norwich University, Thesis (MA), 1997).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wallagrass in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed February 19, 2018
- ↑ Maine 2010 Census Results ; official publication of the Census Authority, (English; PDF; 32.5 MB)
- ↑ Michaud Hill. In: peakery.com. Retrieved February 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
- ^ Wallagrass, Aroostook County | Maine Genealogy. In: mainegenealogy.net. Retrieved February 19, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Wallagrass, Maine (ME 04781) 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 February 19, 2018 (English).
- ^ Wallagrass on Maine Genealogy
- ↑ Population 1870-2010 according to census results
- ^ Northern Maine Medical Center | Fort Kent, ME -. In: nmmc.org. Northern Maine Medical Center, accessed January 11, 2018 (American English).
- ^ Maine Education - School Administrative Reorganization. In: maine.gov. Retrieved January 7, 2018 (American English).
