Hart's Location, New Hampshire
Carroll County
33-34500
Hart's Location is a town in Carroll County, New Hampshire in the United States. The place is one of the first, which gives the results of the primary in New Hampshire and the presidential election is known.
According to the census of 2000, the population was 37 until its incorporation in 2001, it was only a branch. Hart's Location is partially managed by Bartlett, but on the other hand has its own administration and post office.
History
The site of the present Hart's Location was Colonel John Hart awarded from Portsmouth in New Hampshire, from which it got its name. In 1772 it was the originating also from Portsmouth Thomas Chadbourne awarded.
1826 killed a rockslide, Willey 's Slide known as, Samuel Willey and his family. They fled from home and found refuge in a shelter prepare; the shelter was destroyed, while their house from which they fled, remained undestroyed. This story was the basis for Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story The Ambitious Guest ( 1835). To commemorate the family of Mount Willey was named after them.
Abel Crawford, after the Crawford Notch is named, was buried in Hart's Location.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 48.2 km ², of which all the land is.
The form of Hart's Location is strikingly unusual: about 17.6 km long and 2.4 km wide, with crooked cross borders, so that the lower Saco River and U.S. Highway 302 ( near the center ), surrounded on both sides by steep mountains and in some areas of cliffs. The anomaly is on maps showing the county boundaries enlarged represented: Coos County is located directly to the east, and Grafton County is located in the west, but Hart's Location is part of Carroll County, though it is hardly associated with it. Carroll County evokes the shape of a teapot, with Hart's Location as spout of the teapot.
The highest point in Hart's Location is 1189 m high and lies on the western border of the town, below the 1306 m high Mount Willey. Arethusa Falls, the highest waterfall in New Hampshire, located in Nachbartownship Livermore, a famous hiking location with connection from U.S. Highway 302 in Hart's Location. The entire village is in the catchment area of the Saco River.
Policy
Federal elections
The laws of New Hampshire allow places with less than 100 inhabitants to announce the election results at midnight and close them when all voters have cast their ballots. Hart's Location, together with Dixville Notch one of the two communities in New Hampshire, from which the first results of the Democratic primaries and Republicans in New Hampshire will be announced. Thus, they are every year, the first in the primaries in the United States. This tradition began in 1948. It is known as Dixville Notch Practice. Dixville Notch gets more public attention because Hart's Location, this practice ceased in 1964, but in 1996 she resumed.
Fat are the USA -wide winner of each election marked:
1996
2000
2004
2008
2012
Authorities and organizations with security tasks
The police or the NH State Police Troop E, depending operated by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office of the workforce for the time of day.