Washington (Vermont)

Washington
Calef Memorial Library
Location in Vermont
Washington
Basic data
Foundation :	August 8, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orange County
Coordinates :	44 ° 5 ′  N , 72 ° 25 ′  W 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
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
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

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

• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from July 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Washington in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed on April 15, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Michigan Hill . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ 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). 
6. ^ ^{A b} History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
7. ↑ ^{a b} Town Plan of Washington 2013 , accessed April 15, 2017.
8. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
9. ^ Orange North Supervisory Union . In: Edline . ( onsu.org ).
10. ^ Washington Village School . In: Edline . ( edlinesites.net ).
11. ↑ caleflibrary. In: caleflibrary.com. caleflibrary, accessed April 15, 2017 (American English). 
12. ^ Calef Memorial Library . In: Washington (Vermont) Historical Society . October 2, 2007 ( wordpress.com ).