Waterville (Vermont)

Waterville
Town Hall Waterville
Location in Vermont
Waterville
Basic data
Foundation :	November 15, 1824
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Lamoille County
Coordinates :	44 ° 44 ′  N , 72 ° 46 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 44 ′  N , 72 ° 46 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	673 (as of 2010)
Population density :	15.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	42.5 km 2  (approx. 16 mi 2 ) of which 42.5 km 2  (approx. 16 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	346 m
Postal code :	05492
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-77425
GNIS ID :	1462246
Website :	watervillevt.org

Waterville is a town in Lamoille County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 673 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Waterville is located in northwest Lamoille County, in a rugged stretch of the Green Mountains , bordering Franklin County . The Lamoille River flows centrally through the town in a southerly direction. There are no lakes in the town area. It is not hilly, the 397 m high Bears Hill is the highest point.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Bakersfield , 1.6 mi
• Northeast: Belvidere , 9.4 km
• Southeast: Johnson , 5.4 mi
• South: Cambridge , 4.3 mi
• West: Fletcher , 9.7 miles

climate

The mean mean temperature in Waterville is between -11.7 ° C (11 ° 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

Montgomery Covered Bridge

The Grant for Waterville was given on October 26, 1788 to James Whitlaw, James Savage and William Coit. The name for the town was Coit's Gore . With some other areas, the grant was set on November 15, 1824 to Town Waterville. Settlement started in 1789, seven families lived in Gore in 1795 and the first mills were built in 1796 and 1797.

Initially, the settlement took place scattered over the area, from the 1830s a settlement core formed in the south, near the waterfalls of the Lamoille River.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Waterville, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents		193	273	488	610	753	747	573	547	577
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	529	485	469	370	386	409	332	397	470	532
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	697	673

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont Route 109 runs north to south along the Lamoille River, from Beldidere in the north to Cambridge in the south. There is no train station in Waterville. The nearest Amtrak stations are in St. Albans.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Waterville. The closest hospital is Copley Hospital in Morrisville.

education

Lynch & Burt Covered Footbridge

Waterville is part of the Lamoille North Supervisory Union with Cambridge, Eden, Hyde Park and Johnson . The Waterville Elementary School is an elementary school in Waterville, which is attended by about 80 students. It offers classes from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade.

The secondary schools in Hyde Park are the Lamoille Union Middle School and the Lamoille Union High School .

The Waterville Town Library is located on Vermont Route 109.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Roger W. Hulburd (1856–1944), politician, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
• Edward S. Mann (1908–2005), President of Eastern Nazarene College

Personalities who have worked on site

• Luke P. Poland (1815–1887), politician, member of the US Congress

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 183 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 800 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Waterville, Vermont  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Homepage of the community
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from August 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Waterville in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed April 23, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Bears Den Hill . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Waterville, Vermont (VT 05492) 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 23, 2017 (English). 
6. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
7. ^ Waterville Vermont History - Waterville, Vermont . In: Waterville, Vermont . ( watervillevt.org ).
8. ↑ Population 1810-2010 according to census results
9. ↑ Home. In: lnsu.org. LNSU, accessed April 23, 2017 . 
10. ^ Waterville Elementary School. In: wesvt.net. Retrieved April 23, 2017 . 
11. ^ Lamoille Union Middle School. In: lumsvt.org. Retrieved April 22, 2017 . 
12. ^ Lamoille Union High School. In: luhsvt.org. Retrieved April 22, 2017 . 
13. ^ Waterville Town Library. In: watervillelib.org. Retrieved April 23, 2017 .