The St. George post office opened in 1838, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Saint George (1838), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 57 in 17902020 census: 794188 years
Founding year: the first St. George post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
What stands out about St. George’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost half of its people between 1800 and 1810, then grew more than tenfold.
24 censuses, 1790–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on St. George’s Wikipedia page.
On the map
St. George on the map, 1906 to 1944
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of St. George. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1906Burlington sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of St. George.
The story so far
St. George, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of St. George yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
St. George or Saint George is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. The town was named for the patron saint of England. St. George has the smallest land area of any town in Vermont, though the incorporated cities of St. Albans, Vergennes, and Winooski are smaller. The population was 794 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1838. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 674 to 794 (+18%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about St. George in 1886
Passages that mention St. George, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Chittenden County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers1886 · page 669Read the page →
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Town of St. George. 669 years, and removed to Irasburgh in 1856. At the age of twenty-eight years he represented St. George in the Legislature, and was subsequently re-elected nine several times. He also held the office of lister twentyfive years and that of selectman twentynine years; was elected town clerk in 1833 and continued in that office twentytwo years.
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History of Chittenden County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers1886 · page 125Read the page →
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granted on the 1st of June, 1763 ; six towns, viz., Burlington, Colchester, Essex, Huntington, Jericho, and Williston, were granted on the 7th of the same month. Milton and Westford were granted on the 8th of June, and Shelburne and St. George on the i8th of August following. The first towns granted in the county, however, were Charlotte and Hinesburg, both charters bearing date of June 24, 1762. Underbill was not granted until the 8th day of June, 1765. Under a number of these grants, settlement had begun before 1776.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
St. George, 1838 to 2020
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (3), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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