Windham (Vermont)

Windham
House in Windham
Location in Vermont
Windham
Basic data
Foundation :	October 22, 1795
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Windham County
Coordinates :	43 ° 10 ′  N , 72 ° 43 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 10 ′  N , 72 ° 43 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	419 (as of 2010)
Population density :	6.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	67.6 km 2  (approx. 26 mi 2 ) of which 67.5 km 2  (approx. 26 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	532 m
Postal code :	05359
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-84850
GNIS ID :	1462265

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

geography

Geographical location

Windham is in the northwest of Windham County, with the foothills of the Green Mountains to the west. Londonderry borders with the Magic Mountain Ski Area to the west. A few small rivers flow through the town and leave it in a north or south direction. The South Branch Williams River is dammed into a few small lakes in the north and the Burbee Pond is the largest body of water on Turkey Mountain Brook in the south . The State Route 121 runs from west to east. The highest point is the 635 m high, in the north located Timber Ridge Mountain .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Andover , 2.9 mi
• Northeast: Chester , 5.5 mi
• East: Grafton , 5.8 miles
• Southeast: Townshend , 4.0 km
• Southwest: Jamaica , 13.4
• West: Londonderry , 6.5 miles

climate

The mean mean temperature in Windham is between −7.8 ° C (18 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 19.4 ° C (67 ° Fahrenheit) in July. The snowfalls between October and May are up to half a meter (16 inches ) about twice as high as the mean snow depth in the USA. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

Church in the Windham Village Historic District

Windham was first founded in 1770 under the name "Kent" by the Province of New York on behalf of James Rogers . The town of Kent also included the area of ​​today's town of Londonderry. The Vermont Republic legislature reassigned the area and Londonderry was established on April 20, 1780. Londonderry was named after Londonderry (New Hampshire) . In 1795 Windham was separated from Londonderry and founded as an independent town. Benning Wentworth named the new town after his friend Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont .

At the beginning of the 19th century, Windham experienced a heyday with 931 inhabitants in 1820. The town lived from trade, there were sawmills, forges, farms, flour mills, talc and marble were quarried. A meeting house was built in 1802 and completed in 1825. There were several schools and parishes.

Religions

Almost 69% of the residents of Windham do not belong to any religious community, around 20% are Catholic and around 10% are Protestants.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Windham, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	429	782	931	847	757	763	680	544	536	379
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	356	345	261	254	183	145	135	174	223	251
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	328	419

Culture and sights

Public facilities

The Grace Cottage Hospital in Townshend is the hospital for the region. It was founded in 1949.

education

The Windham Elementary School offers classes from kindergarten to sixth grade. Teaching takes place in two classes, from kindergarten to class 2 and from class 3 to 6. The school is currently attended by 16 students. Windham is part of the Windham South West Supervisory Union .

A public library, the Windham Town Library , is located on Windham Hill Road.

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 199 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 4th volume. Vermont Security Guard and State Press, Montpelier 1882, p. 883 ff .

Web links

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

• Windham
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from March 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Windham, in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed July 12, 2016
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Timber Ridge Mountain. In: peakery.com. Retrieved July 12, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ ^{a b} Windham, Vermont (VT 05359) 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 July 12, 2016 . 
6. ↑ About Londonderry. In: londonderryvt.org. Retrieved July 12, 2016 . 
7. ^ Windham, Vermont, New England, USA. (No longer available online.) In: virtualvermont.com. Archived from the original on August 20, 2016 ; Retrieved July 12, 2016 . 
8. ^ Administrator: About Windham. (No longer available online.) In: windhamvt.info. Archived from the original on October 11, 2016 ; Retrieved July 12, 2016 . 
9. ^ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842, p. 193, 194 ( books.google.com ).
10. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
11. ^ Windham Elementary School. In: windhamschool.org. Retrieved July 12, 2016 . 
12. ^ Windham Central Supervisory Union. In: windhamcentral.org. Retrieved July 12, 2016 . 
13. ^ Windham Town Library. In: wordpress.com. Windham Town Library, accessed July 12, 2016 (American English).