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Looking for a map of Vermont? Do you want an up to date map or a historical map? You can find them all on the internet by doing just a few searches. There are many sources or web sites where you can get the maps you need for Vermont or for any other state, city, town, country, or even continent.
There are some revised old maps of Vermont located here. There are old wall maps from the 1850's, a Vermont map from 1860, a Beers Atlas from 1870, Old Topo Maps, Bird’s Eye Views, Old Railroad Maps, Town Overlay Sets, Brattleboro Maps, and a Whitelaw Map from 1796. There are even New Vermont Plotting Maps, and Maps of Just One Town for ancient roads research. These maps on this website were revised on 3/5/2008. There are some very interesting maps here. They take you back to what Vermont looked like before all of the highways and roads were built.
The opportunities are endless when you are trying to find lakes, rivers, counties, cities, town, highways, turnpikes, county roads (unpaved and paved), and much more. Vermont became the 14th state in the U. S. on March 4, 1791. The name of Vermont came from the French words for green mountain, “mont vert”. The capital of Vermont is Montpelier and the largest city is Burlington. The total area of Vermont is 9,615 square miles and Vermont is the 45th most populated state in the U. S.. The population of the state is 608,827 and the residents are called Vermonters.
The major industries of Vermont are maple syrup, dairy farming, tourism, electronics, and forest products (the main one being paper). The state bird is the Hermit Thrush, the state animal is the Morgan Horse, the state butterfly is the Monarch Butterfly, the state tree is the Sugar Maple, and the state amphibian is the Northern Leopard Frog. The Vermont minerals are talc and the grossular garnet. The state insect is the honey bee, state cold water fish is the Brook Trout, the state warm water fish is the Walleye, the state flower is the Red Clover, and the state rocks are granite marble and slate.
Vermont’s official flag was adopted in 1923. The flag has Vermont’s coat-of-arms on it with a background of deep blue. The coat-of-arms shows a large pine tree, a cow, bales of hay, and sheaves of wheat. The mountains of Vermont are shown in the background. There is a stag’s head mounted over the scene and there are boughs of pine needles wrapped around the coat-of-arms. The state motto is, Freedom and Unity” and is written on a red ribbon under the scene.
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