Whiting (Vermont)

Whiting
Whiting Community Church on Vermont Route 30
Location in Vermont
Whiting
Basic data
Foundation :	August 6, 1763
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Addison County
Coordinates :	43 ° 53 ′  N , 73 ° 13 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 53 ′  N , 73 ° 13 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	419 (as of 2010)
Population density :	11.9 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	35.5 km 2  (approx. 14 mi 2 ) of which 35.2 km 2  (approx. 14 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	113 m
Postal code :	05778
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-83800
GNIS ID :	1462260
Website :	whitingvt.com

Whiting is a town in Addison County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 419 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Whiting lies west of the Green Mountains in the fertile plain on the east bank of Lake Champlain . It is primarily used for agriculture and dairy farming. The terrain is largely flat and has no significant elevations; the main river is the Otter Creek , which forms much of the western border of the town. The surface is flat, without any significant elevations.

Neighboring communities

All information as air lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.

• North: Cornwall , 1.7 miles
• Northeast: Salisbury , 7.1 mi
• East: Leicester , 7.9 miles
• Southeast: Brandon , 9.6 mi
• South: Sudbury , 3 miles
• Southwest: Orwell , 4.7 mi
• Northwest: Shoreham , 7.1 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Whiting ranges from −7.8 ° C (18 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 20.6 ° C (69 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. At more than five and a half meters, the snowfall between mid-October and mid-May is 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, the values ​​for the period September to December are even significantly lower.

history

Whiting is one of Governor Benning Wentworth's land grants , the New Hampshire Grants . It was sold on August 6, 1763 to a group of 49 interested parties around Col. John Whiting of Wrentham , Massachusetts , and covered an area of ​​approximately 9,000 acres (about 36 km²). The settlement was delayed; The first house was not built until 1772; the arrival of a first family is registered for June 1773.

As in the surrounding communities, settlement was interrupted at the beginning of the War of Independence and the settlers were evacuated. After the end of the campaigns, however, the settlement was resumed immediately. In 1785 the constituent city assembly took place. Whiting has been mainly used for agriculture from the beginning to the present day. The Otter Creek could not be used for fishing because of the low stock of fish: Due to the falls in Vergennes and Middlebury, food fish could not immigrate from Lake Champlain or from the upper reaches of the river. An expedition in February 1819 brought a number of fish caught alive from Lake Champlain to Otter Creek above the falls at Vergennes. Of the many species of fish that were brought into the river in this way, only one survived the first few months: pike. As early as 1823, 500 pounds (about 200 kilograms) could be caught over a length of about 2 miles (about 3.5 km) .

During the Civil War , 42 soldiers were hired at Whiting for terms of between nine months and three years, 15 of them before the mobilization of 1863. The number of wounded and fallen is not documented.

With the construction of the railway lines through Vermont (from the end of the 1840s), Whiting began a slow, also by the opening of the railway line Leicester – Ticonderoga in 1871 only temporarily braked emigration from the village. Obviously the areas in the west with their promising agricultural areas were the main destination; there is seldom any mention of emigration to the metropolises on the east coast. Whiting thus remained in a purely agricultural status. When operations on the railroad were stopped in 1953, nothing changed; only the transport of the products was shifted to the country road. To this day, agriculture is by far the most important source of income in Whiting.

Religions

In 1799, the first Whiting church was organized, jointly by Baptists and Congretionalists. Their joint meeting house was built between 1811 and 1823. In 1828 a Methodist congregation was added. Of these religious communities only the Baptist under the name Whiting Community Church still exists today .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Whiting, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										250
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	404	565	609	653	660	629	542	430	455	355
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	361	348	302	358	312	282	304	359	379	407
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	380	419

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Whiting is connected to Cornwall and Middlebury to the north by Vermont State Route 73 and Vermont State Route 30 and to Sudbury to the south. There are no rail connections or airports in the area.

Public facilities

Apart from the usual municipal facilities and the primary school, the place has no public facilities. The closest hospitals are Porter Medical Center in Middlebury and Moses-Ludington Hospital in Ticonderoga .

education

Whiting is part of the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union with Brandon, Chittenden, Goshen, Leicester, Mendon, Pittsford and Sudbury . A six-class elementary school, the Whiting Elementary School , is located in Whiting . For secondary schools, the surrounding communities, particularly Middlebury, must be approached.

The Whiting Free Library is located on North Street in Whiting.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Asher P. Nichols (1815–1880), politician, New York State Comptroller
• Philetus Sawyer (1816–1900), politician, member of both houses of the United States Congress

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 190 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Samuel Swift: History of Addison County . Middlebury 1859 ( archive.org ).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer 1 . 1st volume. Burlington 1867, p. 115 ff .
• HP Smith: History of Addison County. Chapter 37: The History of the Town of Whiting . D. Mason & co., Syracuse, NY 1886, pp. 722-733 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Commons : Whiting, 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 May 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Whiting in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed October 1, 2014
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
4. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
5. ^ Samuel Swift: History of Addison County . Middlebury 1859.
6. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
7. ↑ Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 28, 2017