[3] Ira Allen later obtained the rights of the other proprietors, and he deeded the town to Jerusha Enos, Jr. as a wedding gift.

[4] The 2020 United States Census reported that there were 1,233 citizens living in Irasburg.

[6] The land now known as Irasburg was granted on February 23, 1781, to Ira Allen, by the General Assembly of Vermont.

Ira Allen, the person known to have been granted the most land, was born in Colchester in 1790 and attended Middlebury College and the University of Vermont.

Although Ira Allen was the first to be granted land, Irasburg's first settler was Caleb Leach in 1798.

[3] Captain James Richardson settled Irasburg in 1803 and is believed to have opened the first tavern in town.

[3] The production of salts and pearl-ashes was the primary industry in Irasburg for the early 19th century.

There was a large amount of smuggling of the salts and pearl-ashes by the town's residents.

By the 1820s, the town had begun to prosper as industrial sites began to emerge, which included a woolen mill, tannery, and factory production of stoves and plows.

In 1812, the legislature voted to change the shire town of Orleans County to Irasburg.

[11] The town was in the national news in 2010 when it appeared that a moose was going to be destroyed for theoretically carrying disease but mostly because "tamed" wildlife is not allowed in Vermont.

The Black River flows through the town in a northerly direction, receiving a number of small streams.

[15] The Barton River, after leaving Orleans, flows through eastern Irasburg, and enters Coventry.

22.6% of all households were made up of individuals, 102, and 4.4%, 20 houses had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

[20] Irasburg Village School is part of the Orleans Central Supervisory Union.

9th through 12th grade students attend the Lake Region Union High School.

[21] The Kingdom run annual foot race takes place each summer.

The racecourse is a loop that starts and finishes in the Irasburg town commons.

[23][24] There was a round barn on Vermont Route 58 about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of the village of Irasburg.