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Kuusa
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Kuusa
Total population
450
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Overview
Kuusa, also known as Kuusaa, is a village in Laukaa, Finland, located 6 km (3.7 mi) north of the municipal administrative center. The village is centered around the Kuusaankoski rapids between the lakes Vatianjärvi and Saraavesi and the Kuusa lock of the Keitele Canal.
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History
The development of Kuusa began in the 18th century, when new farms were established near the rapids on the lands of the nearby older villages. *The first farms in the area were Saarikko and Itälahti, officially part of Haapavatia, which were formed in 1780 as the 16th-century Peura farm was split into four parts. Saarikko was divided into Ylä-Saarikko and Ala-Saarikko in 1841, while Rantala was separated from Itälahti in 1843. *The first farms on the lands of Laukkavirta were Keskinen and Karhila, later known as Kuusanmäki and Hietala, which were separated from the Pellinen farm in 1823. *The village of Pellosniemi, at the time mostly lands of the vicarage of Laukaa, had a tenant farm () called Mikkola, which was relocated further away from the vicarage and closer to the Kuusaankoski in the 1890s, acquiring the new name Koskela soon after. *On Petruma's part of the area, the first farm was Varjola, separated from the Finni farm in 1872, while the oldest farm in Kuusvesi's part of Kuusa is Kattala. Log driving in Laukaa began in the 1830s as the importance of the sawmill industry had begun to grow. Wood was transported through the Kuusaankoski especially to the sawmill at Vaajakoski. In 1838, engineer captain Karl Robert Westling requested permission to establish a sawmill in the Kuusaankoski, however this sawmill was never established due to disagreements over ownership of nearby forests. Despite this, Kuusa kept developing, with the village's modern center forming in the 1870s. Since the 1880s, there had been plans to connect the Päijänne and Keitele lakes, either by a canal or a railroad. In 1890, it was decided that a railroad was to be built between Jyväskylä and Suolahti, which would also pass through Kuusa. The Jyväskylä–Suolahti railroad was finished in 1898…
Geography
Aside from Saraavesi and Vatianjärvi, there are multiple smaller lakes or ponds in the village, such as Asemalampi, Vähänharjunlampi, Pörrinlampi and Oitinlampi.
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Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image