Woodbury (Vermont)

Woodbury
Woodbury Graded School
Location in Vermont
Woodbury
Basic data
Foundation :	August 16, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Washington County
Coordinates :	44 ° 26 ′  N , 72 ° 25 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 26 ′  N , 72 ° 25 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	906 (as of 2010)
Population density :	9.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	101.3 km 2  (approx. 39 mi 2 ) of which 97.1 km 2  (approx. 37 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	448 m
Postal code :	05681
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-85525
GNIS ID :	1462270

Woodbury is a town in Washington County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 906 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Woodbury is in north Washington County. To the west, the ridge of the Woodbury Mountains runs through the area of ​​the town. It is bordered by Caledonia County to the north and Lamoille County to the west . The highest peaks are Woodbury Mountain with 756 m height and the Round Knoll in the east of Woodbury with 556 m height. Since the area is very hilly, there are no large rivers, but very many small streams that irrigate the area well. There are also 23 lakes here, the largest number of lakes in any Vermont town area. The largest are the Nichols Pond in the northeast and of this slightly south of the East Long Pond and in the west of the Greenwood Lake and the Valley Lake. Centrally located are the protected areas of the Woodbury Town Forest and the Buck Lake Wildlife Management Area.

geology

The geological structure of Woodbury is based on calcareous mica schist , which takes up about two thirds of the town in the eastern part, and a wide belt of clay and talc slate in the western part. In the southern part there is a granite belt.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Wolcott , 4.2 mi
• Northwest: Hardwick , 4 miles
• East: Walden , 20.3 km
• Southeast: Cabot , 8.4 mi
• South: Marshfield , 4.4 mi
• Southwest: Calais , 4.5 mi
• West: Worcester , 13.2 mi
• Northwest: Elmore , 7.5 mi

climate

The mean average temperature in Woodbury is between −10 ° C (14 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 20 ° C (68 ° Fahrenheit) in July. The snowfalls between October and May are up to half a meter (19.5 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

Woodbury was given as a grant to Colonel Ebenezer Wood, William Lyman and six others by the Vermont Legislature on November 6, 1780, and was assigned on August 16, 1781. The land was divided into three sections, which in turn were divided into 244 plots. Each of these lots was 100 acres. The name Woodbury is said to have been given in honor of Colonel Ebenezer Wood, but there were other owners who also had Wood as part of their name. Woodbury was renamed Monroe at the request of the residents in 1838 in honor of James Monroe , but in 1843 Woodbury was renamed back to Woodbury, as the political attitude had changed in the meantime.

Woodbury was first settled by Gideon Sabin around 1795, with Joseph Carr and William West later followed by other settlers. However, only 23 people lived in Woodbury in 1800. School began in Woodbury in 1808 and the first sawmill was built in 1806. In 1818 a grist mill followed near the center of the town.

Woodbury experienced its greatest heyday between 1840 and 1850 through the mining and marketing of high quality granite. Several quarries were subsequently established, the J. Ainsworth Quarry in 1876, the Woodbury Granite Company in 1878 and the Hardwick and Woodbury Railroad reached Woodbury in 1892.

However, after the end of the mining period, the population shrank to less than 400 inhabitants. Today Woodbury has more than 900 residents.

Religions

Just under 65% of Woodbury's residents do not belong to any religious community. Woodbury has First Congregational Church and United Methodist Church congregations.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Woodbury, Vermont

year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	23	254	432	824	1092	1070	999	902	856	810
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	862	824	868	529	463	449	317	399	573	766
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	809	906

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Vermont State Route 14 crosses Woodbury in a north-south direction from Calais in the south to Hardwick in the north. From 1892 to 1934 Woodbury was connected to the Hardwick and Woodbury Railroad. After the granite mining in Woodbury had largely ceased in 1934, the line was closed.

Public facilities

The Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin is the closest hospital and is responsible for the care of approximately 66,000 residents in Central Vermont. It is part of the University of Vermont Health Network.

education

Woodbury belongs to the Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union with Hardwick and Stannard in Caledonia County, Craftsbury and Greensboro in Orleans County and Wolcott in Lamoille County .

Woodbury Elementary School is an elementary school with classes from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. The school is attended by around 50 children. Woodbury is part of the Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union and the closest high school is the Hazen Union School.

The Woodbury Community Library is available to residents of Woodbury. It is affiliated with Woodbury Elementary School.

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 : Woodbury, Vermont  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from November 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Woodbury in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed March 5, 2016
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Woodbury Mountain. In: peakery.com. Retrieved March 5, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Round Knoll. In: peakery.com. Retrieved March 5, 2016 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} History of Woodbury Vermont. (No longer available online.) In: central-vt.com. www.central-vt.com, archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; accessed on March 6, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
7. ↑ Climate, school and employment data at www.City-Data.com (English)
8. ^ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842, p. 119 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
9. ^ Woodbury, Vermont, New England, USA. (No longer available online.) In: virtualvermont.com. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; accessed on March 6, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Woodbury, Vermont (VT 05681) 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 March 6, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
12. ↑ About CVMC. In: cvmc.org. Central Vermont Medical Center, accessed January 2, 2016 . 
13. ^ Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union , accessed June 11, 2017
14. ^ Woodbury Elementary School. In: ossu.org. www.woodbury.ossu.org, accessed March 6, 2016 . 
15. ^ Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union. In: ossu.org. Retrieved March 6, 2016 . 
16. ^ Woodbury Community Library. In: blogspot.de. woodburycommunitylibraryvt.blogspot.de, accessed on March 6, 2016 .