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Ira, Vermont

Bedrock sits a median 32 ft down across 112 logs, deeper than the Vermont median of 20 ft. None of its 4 inventoried bridges is rated poor.

Median depth to bedrock

32 ft

middle half 11–60 ft · 112 logs

Bridges rated poor

0

of 4 inventoried

FEMA repair $, Rutland County

$24.0M

federal share since 2010 · county-wide

01 · Ground

Rock turns up a median 32 ft down

From 112 depth-to-rock records inside Ira (Vermont DEC well records). Logs cluster where people drill wells and bore for roads, so treat this as the town’s pattern, not a site answer.

Half of Ira's logs reach rock between 11 and 60 ft

Depth to bedrock: 10th–90th percentile whisker, middle-half box, median tick; dashed line = Vermont median.
median 32 ft
VT 20 ft
0255075 ft
010203040500–5 ft5–10 ft10–20 ft20–50 ft50–100 ft100+ ft
n = 112 logsSource: Vermont DEC well records
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Depth to rock (ft)Logs
0–57
5–1016
10–2011
20–5044
50–10026
100+8

Rock within 10 ft

25%

of logs (34% across Vermont). Shallow rock means ledge in excavations, refusal for driven piles and rock anchors rather than soil nails; deep ground means taller shoring and more groundwater. 28% of logs here go past 50 ft.

02 · Bridges

None of Ira's 4 bridges is rated poor

Every highway bridge and large culvert in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory that stands inside Ira. Median age 70 years.

25% good, 0% poor

FHWA good / fair / poor rating — the lowest of deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert.
  • Good1 · 25%
  • Fair3 · 75%
  • Poor0 · 0%
n = 4 structuresSource: FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025
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BuiltStructures
1930s1
1940s1
1960s2

03 · Dams & disasters

Rutland County has drawn $24.0M in federal disaster repair since 2010

FEMA Public Assistance is reported by county, so the figure below is Rutland County-wide context, not a Ira number.

FEMA Public Assistance, Rutland County

$24.0M

Federal share obligated across 536 projects in 8 declared disasters since 2010. The largest category is roads & bridges (69%); roads & bridges took $16.5M.
Dams, disasters & moving ground

04 · Next door

Ira and the 6 towns that border it

A dash means no data for that layer, not zero.
Ira compared with neighbouring towns
TownPoor bridgesRock depth
Ira, VT0 / 432 ft
Castleton, VT1 / 2622 ft
Clarendon, VT0 / 1650 ft
West Rutland, VT0 / 1425 ft
Poultney, VT1 / 1116 ft
Middletown Springs, VT0 / 624 ft
Tinmouth, VT0 / 135 ft

Where these numbers come from

Method, sources & caveats

Ira is the Census county subdivision 5002135425 (Rutland County). Every record is placed here by its coordinates, not by the place name the source uses.

  • Towns are Census county subdivisions: cities, towns, plantations, and Maine/New Hampshire unorganized territories and townships. Every record is placed in a town by its coordinates (point-in-polygon), not by the source's own place label — so a bridge in Roxbury counts for Boston and a well in 'North Waltham' counts for Waltham.
  • Bridges: FHWA NBI 2025, highway structures ≥ 20 ft including large culverts. 'Poor' is FHWA's good/fair/poor rating (lowest of deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert ≤ 4). Percent-poor is shown only for towns with at least 5 structures.
  • Depth to bedrock is the median of driller- and boring-reported depths in the town, shown only where at least 10 logs exist. Water-well logs over-sample rural lots and hilltops; one town median never describes a particular site.
  • Bedrock depths use the same state databases and filters as the Bedrock & soils module (bedrock wells and borings that reached rock, 0 < depth ≤ 400 ft, exact re-filings dropped), but every log is placed in a town by its coordinates rather than the driller's town field, so town counts can differ slightly between the two pages. Connecticut and Rhode Island have no statewide public well-log database with depths.
  • Dams: only high-hazard-potential dams whose latest condition assessment is Poor or Unsatisfactory are counted (live NID). Connecticut and Rhode Island assessments may lag.
  • FEMA Public Assistance dollars are federal share obligated for disasters declared since 2010, reported by county — they are county context, not a town figure.
  • Grant awards are Massachusetts only (EEA Dam & Seawall program, MVP Action grants, CZM Coastal Resilience). Other states' programs are not yet included.
  • Ground-related permit counts cover only the municipal portals the pipeline reads (Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Worcester, Framingham, Providence, Portsmouth, Hartford and a few others) — an absent count means 'not covered', not zero.
Data as of
Sep 11, 2026
Generated
Sep 11, 2026
Records
367,748
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Published by Earth Support Corp as a public resource. Regional statistics for planning and curiosity. They are not an engineering report, a bid recommendation or a statement about any particular site, firm or project. Spot an error? Tell us and we will correct it. Full method: methodology.

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