Waltham (Vermont)
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Foundation : | October 31, 1796 | |
State : | United States | |
State : | Vermont | |
County : | Addison County | |
Coordinates : | 44 ° 9 ′ N , 73 ° 14 ′ W | |
Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | |
Residents : | 131 (as of 2010) | |
Population density : | 5.6 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Area : | 23.5 km 2 (approx. 9 mi 2 ) of which 23.2 km 2 (approx. 9 mi 2 ) is land |
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Height : | 522 m | |
Postal code : | 05491 | |
Area code : | +1 802 | |
FIPS : | 50-76075 | |
GNIS ID : | 1462240 | |
Website : | townofwalthamvermont |
Waltham is a town in Addison County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 486 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).
geography
Geographical location
Waltham is located in the north of Addison County, on the western flank of the Green Mountains on the southeastern edge of the plain around Lake Champlain . The area of the town is flat with one hill, Buck Mountain , which is 269 m high . The Otter Creek forms the western boundary of the town, also there are some smaller rivers that either open into the Otter Creek or eastward flow.
Neighboring communities
All information as air lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.
- North: Vergennes , 3.0 km
- Northeast: Ferrisburgh
- East: New Haven , 4.4 mi
- South: Weybridge 1.2 miles
- Southwest: Addison , 7.3 mi
- West: Panton , 12.4 km
climate
The mean mean temperature in Waltham ranges from −7.8 ° C (18 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 20.6 ° C (69 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. At more than five and a half meters, the snowfall between mid-October and mid-May is 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, from September to December it is even significantly lower.
history
When Vergennes was founded in 1796 as a spin-off of the towns of New Heaven, Ferrisburgh and Panton, it was 1,200 acres in size . Some time later there was another cession of land from New Haven in favor of Vergennes, but this land did not fit the City of Vergennes. This land was incorporated as an independent town. Phineas Brown was elected as the first moderator of the meeting in the new town. He suggested the name Waltham after his home town, Waltham, Massachusetts, which the congregation accepted, and the new town was named Waltham. In 1804 a small part of Addison was added to the Waltham area and gave the town its present form.
The settlement of the area started shortly before the American Revolutionary War by the family of John Grisworld from Connecticut. Grisworld and four of his sons were captured by Indians and brought to Canada. He and three sons did not return until three years later; the fourth was now a sailor on a British ship. There are no further records of him. During the war, settlement in the town stopped and only after the war ended, settlers came back and new ones were added. Grisworld also returned to his family.
Population development
Census Results - Town of Waltham, Vermont | ||||||||||
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year | 1800 | 1810 | 1820 | 1830 | 1840 | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 |
Residents | 247 | 244 | 264 | 301 | 283 | 270 | 263 | 249 | 248 | 255 |
year | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 |
Residents | 264 | 202 | 204 | 175 | 184 | 193 | 186 | 265 | 394 | 454 |
year | 2000 | 2010 | 2020 | 2030 | 2040 | 2050 | 2060 | 2070 | 2080 | 2090 |
Residents | 479 | 486 |
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
US Highway 7 runs through the northeast of Waltham from Middlebury in the south to Burlington in the north. The Vermont State Route 17 clips the southeast corner of the Town and runs from Addison to New Haven.
Public facilities
Except for the usual municipal facilities, Waltham has no public facilities. The closest hospital, Porter Medical Center , is in Middlebury.
education
Waltham is part of the Addison Northwest School District with Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton and Vergennes . Panton does not currently have its own school. School children attend schools in Vergennes.
The Bixby Memorial Free Library in Panton is the jointly operated public library for the towns of Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes and Waltham.
Personalities
Personalities who have worked on site
- Alexander Twilight (1795–1857), teacher, politician, and priest at Waltham
literature
- Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 180 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Leonard Deming: Catalog of the Principal Officers of Vermont . Middlebury 1851 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 1st volume. Burlington 1867.
- History of Addison county Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. In: archive.org. Retrieved July 29, 2017 .
Web links
- Homepage of the municipality (English)
- Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
- Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from May 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Waltham in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey retrieved on July 29, 2017
- ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
- ↑ Buck Mountain. In: peakery.com. Retrieved May 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
- ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
- ^ Waltham, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved July 29, 2017 .
- ^ History of Addison county Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. In: archive.org. Retrieved July 29, 2017 .
- ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
- ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
- ^ Addison Northwest School District. In: anwsd.org. Retrieved July 27, 2017 .
- ^ General Information • Bixby Memorial Free Library . In: Bixby Memorial Free Library . ( bixbylibrary.org ).