Isle La Motte

Isle La Motte is an island and town in Grand Isle County, Vermont, United States. The population was 488 at the 2000 census. The town consists primarily of an island in Lake Champlain. Saint Anne's Shrine is located on the island.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 16.7 square miles (43.1 km2), of which 8.0 square miles (20.6 km2) is land and 8.7 square miles (22.5 km2) (52.22%) is water.
The island is known for its quarries of gray or black fossiliferous limestone from the Middle Ordovician Chazy Formation. The limestone consists of a large stromatoporoid patch reef, one of the oldest known metazoan reefs in the Eastern United States.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 488 people, 202 households, and 143 families residing in the town. The population density was 61.3 people per square mile (23.7/km2). There were 415 housing...