Waltham (Vermont)

Waltham
Town Office in Waltham
Location in Vermont
Waltham
Basic data
Foundation :	October 31, 1796
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Addison County
Coordinates :	44 ° 9 ′  N , 73 ° 14 ′  W 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
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
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

Commons : Waltham, 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 May 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Waltham in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey retrieved on July 29, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Buck Mountain. In: peakery.com. Retrieved May 23, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
6. ^ Waltham, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved July 29, 2017 . 
7. ^ 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 . 
8. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
9. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
10. ^ Addison Northwest School District. In: anwsd.org. Retrieved July 27, 2017 . 
11. ^ General Information • Bixby Memorial Free Library . In: Bixby Memorial Free Library . ( bixbylibrary.org ).