Winhall

Winhall
Post Office in the Village of Bondville
Location in Vermont
Winhall
Basic data
Foundation :	September 15, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Bennington County
Coordinates :	43 ° 9 ′  N , 72 ° 55 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 9 ′  N , 72 ° 55 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	769 (as of 2010)
Population density :	6.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	114.0 km 2  (approx. 44 mi 2 ) of which 112.8 km 2  (approx. 44 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	555 m
Postal code :	05340
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-85075
GNIS ID :	1462267
Website :	www.Winhall.org

Winhall is a town in Bennington County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 769 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Winhall River

Winhall is in northeast Bennington County, in the Green Mountains . There are only a few, smaller rivers in the town's territory, the largest being the Winhall River . It flows into the West River . There are several lakes to the east and south. The largest is Gale Meadows Pond to the east of the town. The surface is hilly without a pronounced elevation.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Peru , 8.5 km
• North East: Londonderry , 12 mi
• East: Jamaica , 17.1 km
• Southeast: Somerset , 7 mi
• South: Stratton , 4.3 mi
• Southwest: Sunderland , 6.9 mi
• West: Manchester , 10.1 km
• Northwest: Dorset , 8.0 km

City structure

The Unincorporated Village Bondville is the largest settlement in the town area.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Winhall is between −7.78 ° C (18 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 18.3 ° C (65 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. At over five and a half meters, the snowfalls between October and May are almost twice as high as the average snow depth in the USA, the daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

The Grant for Winhall was awarded on September 15, 1761 by Benning Wentworth as part of his New Hampshire Grants with 23,040 acres (about 93 km²). Nathaniel Brown from Massachusetts was the first settler in Winhall. He reached the town during the American Revolutionary War . The constituent assembly took place in 1796.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Winhall, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										155
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	202	429	428	571	576	762	741	842	722	523
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	449	366	336	229	212	255	245	281	327	482
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	702	769

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont State Route 30 runs through the northern part of the town in east-west direction of Manchester in the west to Jamaica in the south. From here, Vermont State Route 11 branches off in a northerly direction to Peru and Londonderry.

Winhall is located on the former Brattleboro – South Londonderry railway line . The railway line was abandoned at the end of the 1930s.

Public facilities

Besides the usual municipal facilities and the private primary school, Winhall has no public facilities. The closest hospital, Grace Cottage Hospital , is in Townshend.

education

Winhall Memorial Library

Winhall belongs to the Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union with Danby, Dorset, Langrove, Londonderry, Manchester, Mt. Tabor, Pawlet, Peru, Sunderland, Ruper and Weston

In Winhall is the private The Mountain School at Winhall , with school classes from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. The surrounding communities must be approached for public and secondary school education.

The Winhall Memorial Library is located in a former schoolhouse from 1860.

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 196 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 1st volume. Burlington 1867.

Web links

Commons : Winhall, 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 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Winhall in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed July 26, 2017
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 and school information at www.City-Data.com (English)
5. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
6. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
7. ^ Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union , accessed July 26, 2017
8. ^ Winhall Memorial Library. In: winhallmemoriallibrary.org. Winhall Memorial Library, accessed July 26, 2017 (American English).