Irasburg is the primary village and a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) in the
town of Irasburg,
Orleans County,
Vermont
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, United States. As of the
2020 census, it had a population of 159,
out of 1,233 in the entire town of Irasburg.
The CDP is in central Orleans County, south of the geographic center of the town. The
Black River, a tributary of
Lake Memphremagog
Lake Memphremagog (; , ) is a fresh water glacial lake located between Newport (city), Vermont, Newport, Vermont, United States and Magog, Quebec, Canada. The lake spans both Quebec and Vermont, but is mostly in Quebec. Most of the watershed th ...
, flows through the community, passing north of the village center which is sited on a hilltop.
Vermont Route 14
Vermont Route 14 (VT 14) is a north–south state highway in northeastern Vermont, United States. It extends from U.S. Route 4 (US 4) and US 5 in White River Junction to VT 100 in Newport. Between White River Junction ...
passes through the village, leading north to
Coventry
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and southwest to
Albany.
Vermont Route 58
Vermont Route 58 (VT 58) is a east–west State highway#United states, state highway in Franklin County, Vermont, Franklin and Orleans County, Vermont, Orleans counties in northern Vermont, United States. The western terminus of the ...
joins Route 14 in the village center but leads east to
Orleans and west to
Lowell.
Newport, the
county seat
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, is to the northeast of Irasburg.
References
Populated places in Orleans County, Vermont
Census-designated places in Orleans County, Vermont
Census-designated places in Vermont
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