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About Hancock, Vermont 
Addison County
*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Hancock's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
Named for John Hancock, the Revolutionary Boston patriot. It is commonly held that Hancock was the first to sign the Declaration of Independance; while that is not the case, his signature is indeed the most noticeable, because of its size and bold flourishes, such that his name has long been synonymous with "signature" ("Put your John Hancock right there..."). The town had 56 residents in the 1791 census, doubling every ten years for the next forty, reaching a peak in 1820. Since then, the population has declined more or less steadily with each census, largely because 19,000 acres (over 80% of its area) are taken up by the Green Mountain National Forest.
Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's
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Contact Info Emergency Services (Statewide): 911
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Churches, Ministries, Charitables United Church of Christ : United Church of Christ |
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Schools Windsor Northwest Supervisory Union 802-234-5364 |
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This is a basic geographic reference, intended to show relative location of adjacent towns. Directional accuracy is limited to 16 compass points. There isn't even the slightest suggestion that one can necessarily travel directly from one town to the next (as in "You can't get there from here").
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Utilities Notes about utilities:
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