Washington (Vermont)
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Foundation : | August 8, 1781 | |
State : | United States | |
State : | Vermont | |
County : | Orange County | |
Coordinates : | 44 ° 5 ′ N , 72 ° 25 ′ W | |
Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | |
Residents : | 1,039 (as of 2010) | |
Population density : | 10.3 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Area : | 100.7 km 2 (approx. 39 mi 2 ) of which 100.6 km 2 (approx. 39 mi 2 ) is land |
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Height : | 591 m | |
Postal code : | 05675 | |
Area code : | +1 802 | |
FIPS : | 50-76750 | |
GNIS ID : | 1462243 |
Washington is a town in Orange County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 1,039 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).
geography
Geographical location
Washington is centrally located in Orange County. There are only a few, small lakes in the area of the town. Tributaries of the Waits River , Winooski River and White River flow through the town in a north and south-easterly direction. The surface is hilly. The highest point is Michigan Hill, 719 m high in the southwest .
Neighboring communities
All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.
- North: Orange , 5.5 miles
- East: Corinth , 9.7 miles
- South: Vershire , 7.1 miles
- Southwest: Chelsea , 3.1 mi
- West: Williamstown , 8.3 miles
- Northwest: Barre , 4.3 mi
climate
The mean mean temperature in Washington is between −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 18.3 ° C (65 ° 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 Washington grant was proclaimed on November 6, 1780 by the Vermont Republic . The grant was given on October 25, 1781 to Major Elisha Burton and others. The area had already been proclaimed for settlement by the royal governor of New York under the name Kingsland in Gloucester County in 1770 . However, there was no settlement at the time. However, Kingsland County was to become the seat and a prison was built in the center of what is now Washington on the Jail River .
The area of the town was surveyed in 1784 and settlement began in 1785. The first settler was Daniel Morse. On March 1, 1792, the town's constituent assembly took place and the town was organized. The economic basis of the town, as in many other towns in Vermont, was farming, including the timber industry. The rivers offered good locations for mills. With the arrival of the railway, cheese factories were also built. The Websterville – East Barre railway was supposed to run as far as Washington, but there was no financial backer.
Population development
Census Results - Town of Washington, Vermont | ||||||||||
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year | 1700 | 1710 | 1720 | 1730 | 1740 | 1750 | 1760 | 1770 | 1780 | 1790 |
Residents | 72 | |||||||||
year | 1800 | 1810 | 1820 | 1830 | 1840 | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 |
Residents | 500 | 1040 | 1160 | 1374 | 1359 | 1348 | 1249 | 1113 | 922 | 820 |
year | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 |
Residents | 820 | 762 | 660 | 697 | 730 | 650 | 565 | 667 | 855 | 937 |
year | 2000 | 2010 | 2020 | 2030 | 2040 | 2050 | 2060 | 2070 | 2080 | 2090 |
Residents | 1047 | 1039 |
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Centrally in a north-south direction, Vermont State Route 110 runs through the town of Barre in the north to Tunbridge in the south. There is no train station in Washington, the closest is in Randolph or Montpellier.
Public facilities
There is no hospital in Washington. The Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin is the closest hospital.
education
Washington is part of the Orange North Supervisory Union . Washington Village School is located in Washington with classes from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade.
The Calef Memorial Library is located on Vermont Route 110. The building is a gift from Ira C. Calef, who bequeathed $ 12,000 to the town in his will in 1917 for building a library. And another $ 3,000 if granite was used on the outside. However, only the sign with the inscription: "CALEF Library 1919" is made of granite. The library was founded in 1896 as the Washington Town Library .
literature
- Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 181 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
- Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 1138 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
- VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from July 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Washington in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed on April 15, 2017
- ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
- ↑ Michigan Hill . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
- ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Washington, Vermont (VT 05675) 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 April 15, 2017 (English).
- ^ A b History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
- ↑ a b Town Plan of Washington 2013 , accessed April 15, 2017.
- ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
- ^ Orange North Supervisory Union . In: Edline . ( onsu.org ).
- ^ Washington Village School . In: Edline . ( edlinesites.net ).
- ↑ caleflibrary. In: caleflibrary.com. caleflibrary, accessed April 15, 2017 (American English).
- ^ Calef Memorial Library . In: Washington (Vermont) Historical Society . October 2, 2007 ( wordpress.com ).