Averys 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, 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. 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.
History and name
Averys Gore is named for Samuel Avery, a Westminsterdeputy sheriff and jailkeeper. Avery received roughly 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. The original charter merely mentions the boundaries of the tract of land, along with two others included in the same charter, granting them to Samuel Avery, but not mentioning any names for the tracts of land. State Papers of Vermont, Volume One: Index to the Papers of the Surveyors-General lists all the gores granted to Samuel Avery collectively as "Avery's Gores ". While State of Vermont records seem to have consistently used the apostrophe, including state statutes, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names eschews the use of apostrophes in geographic names, which may improperly imply personal possession. This has led to the use of both spellings. The apostrophe is omitted in Vermont Place-Names: Footprints of History by Esther M. Swift, in the Vermont Atlas and Gazetteer.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the gore has a total area of, of which, 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.
Demographics
As of the 2010 census, there are no people living in the gore.
