Wolcott (Vermont)

Wolcott
Fisher Covered Railroad Bridge in Wolcott
Location in Vermont
Wolcott
Basic data
Foundation :	August 22, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Lamoille County
Coordinates :	44 ° 34 ′  N , 72 ° 28 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 34 ′  N , 72 ° 28 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,676 (as of 2010)
Population density :	16.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	101.5 km 2  (approx. 39 mi 2 ) of which 101.1 km 2  (approx. 39 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	218 m
Postal code :	05680
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-85375
GNIS ID :	1462269
Website :	wolcottvt.org

Wolcott is a town in Lamoille County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 1676 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Wolcott is in the east of Lamoille County, in a rugged part of the Green Mountains , and is traversed by the North Branch Lamoille River in a westerly direction. The largest lake in the town's area is Wolcott Pond to the east . The area of ​​the town is hilly, the highest point being the 506 m high Scribner Hill.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Eden , 10 miles
• Northeast: Craftsbury , 5.2 mi
• East: Greensboro , 12 mi
• Southeast: Hardwick , 7.4 mi
• South: Woodbury , 4.2 miles
• Southwest: Elmore , 4.2 mi
• West: Morristown , 7.5 mi
• Northwest: Hyde Park , 7.7 mi

City structure

The main settlement in Town Wolcott is Village Wolcott.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Wolcott ranges from −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 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

Lamoille River in Wolcott

The grant for Wolcott was on November 7, 1780 to Josuah Stanton and 61 other settlers. This was confirmed on August 22, 1781. Wolcott was settled from 1789. The first settlers were Thomas Tylor and Seth Hubbell. The town's constituent assembly took place on March 31, 1791. It was not until the beginning of the 19th century that there was increasing settlement and in 1830 there were 492 people in Wolcott. The town was named after one of the grant recipients, Major Oliver Wolcott.

Fisher Covered Bridge

The Lunenburg – Maquam railway reached Walcott in 1872. The line is closed today. There were many covered wooden bridges along the route. Most of them were destroyed by floods, later relocated by steel structures. The last remaining one is the Fisher Covered Bridge in Walcott, listed on the National Register of Historic Places .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Wolcott, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										32
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	47	124	123	492	824	909	1161	1132	1166	1158
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1066	1049	932	831	772	766	633	676	986	1229
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1456	1676

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The community is served by Vermont Route 15 , which runs along the Lamoille River in a west-east direction, from Morrisville in the west to Hardwick in the east. There is no rail link in Wolcott.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Wolcott. The closest hospital is Copley Hospital in Morrisville.

education

Wolcott is part of the Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union , along with Craftsbury and Greensboro in Orleans County, Hardwick and Stannard in Caledonia County, and Woodbury in Washington County . The Wolcott Elementary School located on School Hill Drive.

The Glee Merritt Kelley Community Library is housed in the Wolcott Elementary School. It is a community library and caters to the needs of Wolcott residents and students. The library has its own entrance, which is independent of the school.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Clifton G. Parker (1906–1988), politician and Attorney General of Vermont

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 197 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 773 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Wolcott, Vermont  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• Homepage of the community
• 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. ↑ Wolcott in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed April 24, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ^ Scribner Hill . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Wolcott, Vermont (VT 05680) 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 April 24, 2017 (English). 
6. ^ The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military . Miss AM Hemenway, January 1, 1871 ( books.google.de ).
7. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
8. ^ Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union. In: ossu.org. Retrieved April 24, 2017 . 
9. ^ Wolcott Elementary School. In: ossu.org. www.wolcott.ossu.org, accessed April 24, 2017 . 
10. ^ Glee Merritt Kelley Library. In: wordpress.com. Glee Merritt Kelley Library, accessed April 24, 2017 (American English).