Averill, Vermont
| Averill, Vermont | |
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| Town | |
 Location in Essex County and the state of Vermont. |
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 Location of Vermont with the U.S.A. |
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| Country | United States |
| State | Vermont |
| County | Essex County |
| Government | |
| • Type | Unincorporated town |
| Area | |
| • Total | 38.1 sq mi (98.6 km2) |
| • Land | 36.0 sq mi (93.3 km2) |
| • Water | 2.0 sq mi (5.3 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,697 ft (517 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 24 |
| • Density | 0.8/sq mi (0.3/km2) |
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 05901 |
| FIPS code | 50-009-02125 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1462029 |
Averill is an unincorporated town in Essex County, Vermont, United States. The town was named for Samuel Averill, a landholder. The town was never formally incorporated, having never gained a large enough permanent population. The population was 24 at the 2010 census, triple the population from the previous census in 2000. The town's affairs are handled by the Unified Towns & Gores of Essex County. It is part of the Berlin, NH–VT Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Averill was originally chartered in 1762 as part of the Province of New Hampshire on the behalf of Royal Governor Benning Wentworth. Averill consisted of twenty three thousand and forty acres of land, which was divided among seventy equal shares, with the stipulation that the grantees must cultivate a tenth of their land within five years, and that all pine trees fit for ship masts must be preserved for that purpose. The first settlers arrived in the 1830s, and in 1840 the town had 11 residents. In the 1870s a sawmill was built in the neighboring town of Norton, which led to a rise in population to 48 residents in 1880. The Averill Lumber Co. formed in the 1880s, and operated a mill on the east side of Great Averill Lake until it burned down in 1898.
Averill is in northern Essex County, bordered by Canaan to the northeast, Lemington to the southeast, Bloomfield at the southernmost point, Lewis on the southwest, Averys Gore to the west, and Norton to the northwest. The northern corner of Averill is less than 0.5 miles (0.8 km) south of the Canada–US border.
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