Henderson is a

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and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...

(CDP) in the town of Henderson, Jefferson County,

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, United States. The population of the CDP was 224 at the 2010 census, out of 1,360 in the entire town of Henderson.

Geography

The hamlet of Henderson is located in southwestern Jefferson County, in the center of the town of Henderson. The community is in the valley of Stony Creek, a southwestward-flowing tributary of

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runs through the center of the community, leading west to

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and southeast to Adams.

Henderson Harbor Henderson is a town in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 1,360 at the 2010 census. The town is named after William Henderson, the original European-American land owner. Henderson is in the western part of the county an ...

on Lake Ontario is to the northwest via County Route 72. According to the

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, the Henderson CDP has a total area of , all land.

Demographics

References

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