Weston (Vermont)

Weston
Village store in Weston, Vermont
Location in Vermont
Weston
Basic data
Foundation :	October 26, 1799
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Windsor County
Coordinates :	43 ° 19 ′  N , 72 ° 48 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 19 ′  N , 72 ° 48 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	566 (as of 2010)
Population density :	6.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	91.1 km 2  (approx. 35 mi 2 ) of which 90.6 km 2  (approx. 35 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	545 m
Postal code :	05161
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-82000
GNIS ID :	1462255
Website :	westonvt.org

Weston is a town in Windsor County , Vermont , United States with 566 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Weston lies in a valley between the central mountain ranges in the southern section of the Green Mountains . The West River is the central river of the area, to which numerous, mostly nameless watercourses flow from the surrounding slopes. The highest peaks are in the western chain of Peabody Hill with 854 m (2802 ft ), in the eastern chain of Terrible Mountain with 821 m (2694 ft), whose summit lies in the area of ​​the neighboring town of Andover to the east.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Mount Holly , 2.2 mi
• Northeast: Ludlow , 7 mi
• East: Andover , 5.6 mi
• Southeast: Windham , 7.7 mi
• South: Londonderry , 2.4 mi
• Southwest: Landgrove , 3.5 mi
• West: Mount Tabor , 8.2 miles

Note: There is no common border between Weston and Windham. The two places are so close together that it makes sense to include them on this list.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Weston ranges from −8.3 ° C (17 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 20.0 ° C (68 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that compared to the long-term mean of Vermont, the place is around 4 degrees in the summer half-year and slightly cooler in the winter half-year. The snowfall between October and May, with a peak of 43 cm in January, is up to two and a half meters, a good double the average snow depth in the USA. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

The area of ​​today's Weston was originally part of Andover , but because the settlement of the area quickly showed that a ridge cut off the valley in which the western part of the town lay from the rest of the town and shared administration, especially in winter , made considerably more difficult, plans began in 1790 to outsource this western part of Andover as an independent town. This was done by resolution of the Vermont House of Representatives on October 26, 1799. The name of the new town was derived from the language that already existed for this area: West Town. The constituent city assembly took place on March 3, 1800; since then Weston has sent its own representative to the Vermont parliament.

A smallpox epidemic that raged in Vermont in 1813 left Weston with large numbers of victims. However, exact numbers have not been passed down.

As part of the job creation programs that Theodore Roosevelt initiated in response to the Great Depression from 1929, there was a Civilian Conservation camp under the name Camp West River Forest in the north of the town between 1933 and 1942. The men living there created nature reserves, bridges, ski trails and campsites in the area.

Religions

North of Weston is the Weston Priory , a 1953 by Abbot Leo von Rudloff based priory of Benedictine .

Of the original four faith communities that built a shared meeting house in 1817, only the Methodists are still active in the village today.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Weston, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	-	629	890	972	1032	1851	932	931	987	864
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	756	632	436	411	457	458	442	507	627	488
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	630	566

Note: The town was spun off from Andover as early as 1799, but the Einwohler numbers from the Census 1800 were added to Andover, so that no separate numbers are available for Weston.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Weston is only accessible by country roads due to its location in the middle of the mountains, in particular the Vermont State Route 100 , which connects Ludlow to the north and Londonderry to the south .

Public facilities

The only public institution that exists in Weston is the Wilder Memorial Library with around 2,300 volumes (as of December 31, 2014). The closest hospital is the Rutland Regional Medical Center in Rutland .

education

In Weston there is only one preschool with a local kindergarten, The Little School , which was founded in 1976 and housed in the building of the former elementary school. All other schooling is carried out in cooperation with the surrounding communities in their schools.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Joseph A. Gilmore (1811–1867), politician and governor of New Hampshire
• Aaron H. Cragin (1821–1898), politician and New Hampshire representative in the US Congress
• Hiram Sanford Stevens (1832-1893), politician and representative of Arizona in the US House of Representatives
• Sam Lloyd (1963–2020), actor and musician
• Elizabeth Beerman (* 1991), snowboarder

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in Three Parts . Part 3. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 189 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Weston, 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 March 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Weston in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed October 1, 2014
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Entry of Peabody Hill on peakery.com (English)
4. ↑ Entry of Terrible Mountain on peakery.com (English)
5. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
6. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
7. ↑ Photo and brief description in the Town Report 2015 (English) ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
8. ^ The Benedictine monks of Weston Priory, Weston , accessed June 3, 2017.
9. ↑ Population 1810-2010 according to census results
10. ↑ Town Report 2015, p. 61 ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Homepage of the preschool The Little School (English)