Bloomville is a

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and

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(CDP) in the town of Kortright, Delaware County,

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, United States. The population was 213 at the 2010 census.

Geography

Bloomville is located in the West Branch Delaware River valley, north of the

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. Administratively part of Kortright, the Bloomville CDP has according to the

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, has a total area of , all land. Bloomville is in the southwestern corner of Kortright.

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passes through the hamlet, leading southwest to

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, the

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, and northeast to Stamford. The west end of the

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, a rail-trail following the route of the former

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, is in Bloomville. There is a parking lot just across Route 10 from the trailhead.

Demographics

Culture

Like many communities in the Catskills, the Bloomville population is split between farmers and second-home owners. The

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is located within the community. Today Bloomville is part of a developing Catskills culinary community. A local restaurant, Table on Ten, was featured in ''

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'' and other culinary publications in 2014.

References

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