Averys Gore, VT
Averys Gore (or Avery's Gore) is a gore located in Essex County, Vermont, United States.
It is one of at least five locations in Vermont known as Averys Gore (or Avery's Gore), the others being located in Addison County, Chittenden County, Franklin County, and Windham County. This page deals specifically with the location in Essex County.
In Vermont, gores and grants are unincorporated portions of a county which are not part of any town and have limited self-government (if any, as some are uninhabited). The population was 0 at the 2010 census. However, the gore does have a few hundred feet of dirt road and one building or structure, on the North Branch of the Nulhegan River by the Lewis town line. More prominently, Gore Mountain, one of the 50 highest in the state, is in the eastern portion of Averys Gore.
Averys Gore is named for Samuel Avery, a Westminster deputy sheriff and jailkeeper. Avery received roughly 52,000 acres (21,000 ha) in eight separate gores and grants in the 1790s as compensation for land he had owned in a part of the state previously claimed by New York.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the gore has a total area of 17.6 square miles (45.5 km2), of which 0.035 square miles (0.09 km2), or 0.19%, is water. The north side of the gore drains via several brooks into the Coaticook River, part of the St. Lawrence River basin, while the rest of the gore drains south via the North Branch of the Nulhegan River or the Black Branch of the Nulhegan and is part of the Connecticut River basin.
As of the 2010 census, there are no people living in the gore.
Sources are inconsistent on whether the name of the gore is "Averys Gore" or "Avery's Gore" (i.e. with the apostrophe or without). State of Vermont records seem to have consistently used the apostrophe, but independent sources have been less consistent.
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