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Addison-2 Vermont Representative District, 2002–2012

American legislative district

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ4681223 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Addison-2 Representative District is a one-member state Representative district in the U.S. state of Vermont. It is one of the 108 one or two member districts into which the state was divided by the redistricting and reapportionment plan developed by the Vermont General Assembly following the 2000 United States census. The plan applies to legislatures elected in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010. A new plan will be developed in 2012 following the 2010 United States census.

The Addison-2 District includes all of the Addison County towns of Cornwall, Goshen, Hancock, Leicester, Ripton and Salisbury.

As of the 2000 census, the state as a whole had a population of 608,827. As there are a total of 150 representatives, there were 4,059 residents per representative (or 8,118 residents per two representatives). The one member Addison-2 District had a population of 4,365 in that same census, 7.54% above the state average.

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“Addison-2 Vermont Representative District, 2002–2012” enters the record as american legislative district. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Addison-2, Vermont and Representative can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2002, 2004, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Addison-2, Vermont and Representative.
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“Addison-2 Vermont Representative District, 2002–2012” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Addison-2, Vermont and Representative provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4681223. Authority coordinates are 43.914, -73.107. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Addison-2 Vermont Representative District, 2002–2012” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.