Wallingford (Vermont)

Wallingford
Wallingford Town Hall
Location in Vermont
Wallingford
Basic data
Foundation :	November 27, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Rutland County
Coordinates :	43 ° 27 ′  N , 72 ° 57 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 27 ′  N , 72 ° 57 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	2,079 (as of 2010)
Population density :	18.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	112.5 km 2  (approx. 43 mi 2 ) of which 112.0 km 2  (approx. 43 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	510 m
Postal code :	05773
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-75925
GNIS ID :	1462239
Website :	www.wallingfordvt.com

Wallingford is a town in Rutland County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 2,079 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Wallingford is located in the southeastern part of Rutland County, in the Green Mountains . The southeastern part of the town is covered by the Green Mountain National Forest . The Otter Creek flows through the western part in a northerly direction. There are several lakes in the town area, including Elfin Lake to the northwest and Wallingford Pond in the Green Mountain National Forest to the southeast. The highest point is the 811 m high White Rocks in the south of the town. In the west of the town there are marble quarries, the mountains in the south and the White Rock are made of granite. At the foot of White Rock there are some caves where ice can be found even in summer.

Neighboring communities

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

• Northeast: Shrewsbury 6.5 mi
• East: Mount Holly , 9.8 miles
• South: Mount Tabor , 2.5 mi
• Southwest: Danby , 7.5 mi
• West: Tinmouth , 8.5 miles
• Northwest: Clarendon , 3.4 mi

City structure

Wallingford has two villages, South Wallingford and East Wallingford. Both are on US Highway 7 . The main settlement is East Wallingford, or it is colloquially just called Wallingford.

climate

The mean average temperature in Wallingford is between -7.2 ° C (19 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 20.6 ° C (69 ° 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

The Boy With The Boot

Wallingford was founded on November 21, 1761 as a Grant by Benning Wentworth . The name goes back to Wallingford in Connecticut , where the first settlers came from. Wallingford, Connecticut had its charter meeting in 1772. Settlement started in 1773 and one of the first settlers was Abraham Jackson and his family. Jackson was also elected a town clerk at the first town council in 1778.

The first residents settled in this area even before the grant was awarded. The squatter George Scott settled in Wallingford with his family, and Ephraim Seeley was one of these early settlers.

The Boy With The Boot memorial has become a Wallingford landmark . It was a gift to the town of Wallingford in 1898. The children of Arnold Hill, who ran the Wallingford Inn from 1861 to 1871, gave it to the town in memory of their father. It was dismantled around 1910 and only found again in 1920, restored and re-erected in front of the inn.

Religions

The first faith to be established in Wallingford was the Baptist Church . In 1802 a congregational church was established. Later also Episcopal and Methodist congregations .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Wallingford, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										536
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	912	1386	1570	1740	1608	1688	1747	2023	1846	1733
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1575	1719	1581	1564	1450	1482	1439	1676	1893	2184
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	2274	2079

Culture and sights

Parks

The Green Mountain National Forest was established in 1932. It extends over several counties of Vermont. From the area of ​​the town of Wallingford it covers about half of the area of ​​the town in the southeast. It is looked after by the USDA Forest Service.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

US Highway 7 runs north-south through the west of the town from Clarendon to Mount Tabor. It follows the course of the Otter Creek . The Villages South Wallingford and Wallingford lie on it. The Vermont Route 140 runs north in an east-west direction from Mount Holly to Tinmouth. The Bellows Falls – Burlington railway runs through East Wallingford and the Rutland – Hoosick Junction railway through Wallingford and South Wallingford.

Public facilities

Wallingford does not have its own hospital. The closest hospital is the Rutland Regional Medical Center in Rutland.

education

Gilbert Hart Library, 1895

Wallingford is part of the Mill River Union Unified School District . This includes the towns of Clarendon, Shrewsbury, Tinmouth and Wallingford. Wallingford Elementary School is located in Wallingford .

In Wallingford, the Gilbert Hart Library is on South Main Street. It was donated to the town in 1894 by Gilbert Hart in memory of his grandfather Amasa Hart, one of Vermont's early settlers. It is operated by the Gilbert Hart Library Association, founded in 1894.

literature

• Walter Thorpe: History of Wallingford, Vermont . The Tuttle Company, Rutland 1911 ( archive.org ).
• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 179 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• HP Smith: History of Rutland County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . D. Mason & co., Syracuse, NY 1886, pp. 830 f . ( archive.org ).

Web links

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

• Homepage of the municipality (English)
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from November 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wallingford in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed February 11, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ White Rocks . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ^ ^{A b c} History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
5. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
6. ↑ Tinmouth, Vermont (VT 05773) 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 4, 2017 (English). 
7. ^ ^{A b} Wallingford, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved February 11, 2017 . 
8. ^ ^{A b} History of Rutland County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. In: archive.org. Retrieved February 11, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
10. ^ Green Mountain & Finger Lakes National Forests , accessed February 11, 2017.
11. ↑ Tinmouth Elementary | Working together for the success of every child. In: millriverschools.org. Retrieved February 11, 2017 (American English). 
12. ↑ A Brief History . In: Gilbert Hart Library . July 23, 2008 ( wordpress.com ).