Our Town - Ira

Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's

Vermont Place Names: Footprints of History 

with the author's permission

The total population of Ira as  shown by the federal census was as follows:

1790 - 312

1800 - 473

1810 - 519

1820 - 498

1830 - 442

1840 - 430

1850 - 400

1860 - 422

1870 - 413

1880 - 479

1890 - 421

1900 - 350

1910 - 286 

1920 - 295

1930 - 287

1940 - 248

1950 - 232

1960 - 220

1970  - 284

1980 - 354

1990 - 426

2000 - 455

2010 - 432

2020 - 368

Ira population

Click on the following links:

Historical Maps

Electricity to Ira

Ira Art

Ira Wildlife

Stagecoach Road (now Route 133) - see what businesses were along Route 133 in the past

Old Town Reports

Old Salem Rutland Road mile markers

Covid - 19 in Ira 


Many additional pages on this website are also about the history of Ira