Westfield (Vermont)

Westfield
Westfield First Congregational Church
Location in Vermont
Westfield
Basic data
Foundation :	May 15, 1780
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orleans County
Coordinates :	44 ° 52 ′  N , 72 ° 27 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 52 ′  N , 72 ° 27 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	536 (as of 2010)
Population density :	5.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	104.1 km 2  (approx. 40 mi 2 ) of which 104.0 km 2  (approx. 40 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	542 m
Postal code :	05874
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-80200
GNIS ID :	1462250
Website :	Homepage

Westfield is a town in Orleans County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 536 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Westfield is in northwest Orleans County. The Missisquoi River flows through the town on the eastern edge in a northerly direction in a wide valley, further small streams flow in an easterly direction into the Missisquoi River. There are no major lakes in the town area. The area of ​​the town lies on the eastern edge of the Green Mountains . The highest point is the 882 m high Domeys Dome .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Jay , 2.2 miles
• East: Troy , 7 miles
• South: Lowell , 2.6 mi
• West: Montgomery , 8.4 mi
• Northwest: Richford , 8 miles

climate

The mean mean temperature in Westfield 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

The grant for the area of ​​the Town Westfield got on May 15, 1780 Dan Owen and others. The grant for this town and five others was issued by the Vermont Republic to raise funds to fund troops in the American Revolutionary War . The settlement began in 1799. The constituent assembly of the town took place on March 29, 1802. The town was named after William West , lieutenant governor of Rhode Island and one of the grant recipients.

In Westfield there is a branch of the Congrégation de Solesmes , the Monastery of the Immaculate Heart of Mary . The convent is a branch of the Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Deux-Montagnes near Montreal . The monastery was founded in 1981.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Westfield, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	16	149	225	353	370	502	618	721	698	763
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1178
Residents	646	613	490	448	354	358	347	375	418	422
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	503	536

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont State Route 100 leads north to south of Tory in the north to the south Lowell. Vermont State Route 58 runs through the southeast corner past Hazens Notch State Park. It meets Vermont State Route 105 , which runs west-east from Montgomery in the west to Lowell in the south.

Public facilities

Westfield doesn't have its own hospital. The closest hospital is North Country Hospital & Health Care in Newport City.

education

Westfield is part of the North Country Supervisory Union . Jay is home to the Jay / Westfield Joint Elementary School , a community school of the towns of Jay and Westfield.

The Hitchcock Memorial Library and its museum were given to the town as a gift by Aaron Charles Hitchcock. The building was completed in 1899. Hitchcock died on March 1, 1900.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Carroll Smalley Page (1843-1925), politician
• Thomas J. Boynton (1856–1945), politician and Massachusetts Attorney General

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 186 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

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

• Homepage of the municipality (English)
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Maps from 1859 and 1878 and a historical summary
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from May 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Westfield in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed March 24, 2017.
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Domeys Dome . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Westfield, Vermont (VT 05874) 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 March 24, 2017 (English). 
6. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
7. ^ Westfield, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved March 24, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
9. ^ North Country Supervisory Union. (No longer available online.) In: ncsuvt.org. Archived from the original on October 24, 2016 ; accessed on March 24, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ^ Jay / Westfield Elementary School. In: google.com. sites.google.com, accessed March 24, 2017 . 
11. ↑ ♦ Hitchcock Museum / Library | Westfield, Vermont. In: vt.gov. westfield.vt.gov, accessed March 24, 2017 .