Vermont
Bennington
Town of Dorset

Dorset

Dorset is a town in , , United States. The population was 2,133 at the 2020 census. Dorset is famous for being the location of Cephas Kent's Inn, where four meetings of the Convention that signed the Dorset Accords led to the independent Vermont Republic and future statehood.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 2,000 residents
  • Description: town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States
  • Also known as: “Dorset, Vermont”, “Dorset, VT”, “East Dorset”, and “West Dorset”
  • Postal code: 05251
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include East Dorset Congregational Church and Mount Aeolus.

Church
Photo: Whoisjohngalt, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Peak
is a mountain summit in Dorset, , , . is one of the Taconic Mountains. It lies 1.5 miles west of the community of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dorset and Kent Neighborhood Historic District.

Village
is the primary settlement and a census-designated place in the town of , , , United States. As of the 2020 census, the CDP had a population of 360, out of 2,133 in the entire town. is situated 4½ miles west of Dorset.

Neighborhood
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The encompasses a little-altered early 19th-century rural neighborhood of Dorset, Vermont. Centered at the junction of Dorset West Road and Nichols Hill Road, the area is also historically significant as the site in 1775 of the first meetings that culminated in Vermont's period of independence prior to become the 14th state. is situated 5 miles west of Dorset.

Town
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a census-designated place in the town of in , , United States. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a population of 2,120, out of 4,391 people in the entire town of Manchester. is situated 5 miles southwest of Dorset.

Dorset

Latitude
43.2398° or 43° 14′ 23″ north
Longitude
-73.00927° or 73° 0′ 33″ west
Population
2,000
Elevation
958 feet (292 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US DT3
Open location code
87M86XQR+W7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158905124
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
5235496
Wiki­data ID
Q1903749
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Dorset” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دورست”
  • Basque: “Dorset”
  • Catalan: “Dorset”
  • Cebuano: “Dorset”
  • Chechen: “Дорсет”
  • French: “Dorset”
  • German: “Dorset”
  • Haitian: “Dorset, Vermont”
  • Haitian: “Dorset”
  • Hebrew: “דורסט”
  • Irish: “Dorset”
  • Italian: “Dorset”
  • Japanese: “ドーセット”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dorset (Vermont)”
  • Norwegian: “Dorset”
  • Polish: “Dorset”
  • Portuguese: “Dorset”
  • Serbian: “Дорсет”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dorset, Vermont”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dorset”
  • Spanish: “Dorset (Vermont)”
  • Spanish: “Dorset”
  • Swedish: “Dorset, Vermont”
  • Swedish: “Dorset”
  • Tatar: “Дорсет”
  • Turkish: “Dorset”
  • Ukrainian: “Дорсет”
  • Uzbek: “Dorset”
  • Volapük: “Dorset”
  • Welsh: “Dorset”

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Highlights include East Dorset Post Office and East Dorset Fire District.

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