Troy is an
unincorporated village
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and
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 Troy,
Orleans County,
Vermont
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, United States. As of the
2020 census, it had a population of 261,
out of 1,722 in the entire town of Troy.
The CDP is in northwestern Orleans County, in the west-central part of the town. Its western border is the town line with
Westfield. Vermont Routes
100
100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.
In mathematics
100 is the square of 10 (in scientific notation it is written as 102). The standard SI prefix for a hundred is " hecto-".
100 is the b ...
and
101
101 may refer to:
*101 (number), the number
* AD 101, a year in the 2nd century AD
* 101 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC
It may also refer to:
Entertainment
* ''101'' (album), a live album and documentary by Depeche Mode
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meet in the center of the village. Route 100 leads northeast to its northern terminus at
Route 105 in
Newport Center, and south to
Lowell, while Route 101 leads north to
North Troy next to the Canadian border.
Troy village is in the valley of the
Missisquoi River
The Missisquoi River is a transboundary river of the east shore of Lake Champlain (via Missisquoi Bay), approximately long, in northern Vermont in the United States and southern Quebec in Canada.
It drains a rural area of the northern Green Moun ...
, which flows northwards along the east side of the village. The river flows north into
Quebec
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, then turns west, passes the north end of the
Green Mountains
The Green Mountains are a mountain range in the U.S. state of Vermont and are a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains. The range runs primarily south to north and extends approximately from the border with Massachusetts to the border with Que ...
, and reenters Vermont, where it continues to
Lake Champlain
Lake Champlain ( ; , ) is a natural freshwater lake in North America. It mostly lies between the U.S. states of New York (state), New York and Vermont, but also extends north into the Canadian province of Quebec.
The cities of Burlington, Ve ...
.
References
Populated places in Orleans County, Vermont
Census-designated places in Orleans County, Vermont
Census-designated places in Vermont
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