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Mamakating, New York
Mamakating is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town in the southeastern section of Sullivan County, New York, United States. The population was 12,655 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. History Johanis Hardenburgh, a resident of Kingston, New York, Kingston, Ulster County, had purchased a large tract of land known as the Hardenburgh Patent in 1706. This land and another patent known as the Minisink Patent were what is now most of Orange County, NY, Orange and Sullivan Counties. The town of Mamakating was organized on December 17, 1743, as the Precinct of Mamakating in Ulster County, NY, Ulster County, and was coextensive with what became Sullivan County. Some say it was called Mamacotten. Over decades, the precinct was partitioned into towns. The Town of Mamakating is considered the first town in Sullivan County; its first county seat was raised in the village of Bloomingburg, New York, Bloomingburg in 1809. During the early and middle 18th century the ...
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Administrative Divisions Of New York
The administrative divisions of New York are the various units of government that provide local government, local services in the American New York (state), state of New York. The state is divided into boroughs of New York City, boroughs, counties, cities, towns, and villages. (The only boroughs, the five boroughs of New York City, have the same boundaries as their respective counties.) They are municipal corporations, chartered (created) by the New York State Legislature, as under the Constitution of New York, New York State Constitution the only body that can create governmental units is the state. All of them have their own governments, sometimes with no paid employees, that provide local services. Centers of population that are not incorporated and have no government or local services are designated Administrative divisions of New York (state)#Hamlet, hamlets. Whether a municipality is defined as a borough, city, town, or village is determined not by population or land are ...
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Deerpark, New York
Deerpark is a town in the western part of Orange County, New York, United States. It is part of the Poughkeepsie Newburgh Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York Newark Bridgeport, NY- NJ- CT- PA Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2020 Census, the population was at 7,509. The center of population of New York is located in Cuddebackville, a hamlet in Deerpark. Cuddebackville and Deerpark are best known as the headquarters of both the global Falun Gong religious movement and the Shen Yun performance arts troupe, based at the Dragon Springs compound. History Dutch and Huguenot colonists settled in the area in the 17th century, centered on a Dutch settlement named Waghackamack and later renamed to Minisink. The settlement was part of the boundary dispute between New York and New Jersey, which began circa 1700 and was not resolved until 1773. During the American Revolution, the area was raided twice by Mohawk Leader, Joseph Brant. The m ...
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White (U
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green light. The color white can be given with white pigments, especially titanium dioxide. In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore white as a symbol of purity, and Romans wore white togas as symbols of citizenship. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance a white unicorn symbolized chastity, and a white lamb sacrifice and purity. It was the royal color of the kings of France as well as the flag of monarchist France from 1815 to 1830, and of the monarchist movement that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922). Greek temples and Roman temples were faced with white marble, and beginning in the 18th c ...
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Population Density
Population density (in agriculture: Standing stock (other), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical term.Matt RosenberPopulation Density Geography.about.com. March 2, 2011. Retrieved on December 10, 2011. Biological population densities Population density is population divided by total land area, sometimes including seas and oceans, as appropriate. Low densities may cause an extinction vortex and further reduce fertility. This is called the Allee effect after the scientist who identified it. Examples of the causes of reduced fertility in low population densities are: * Increased problems with locating sexual mates * Increased inbreeding Human densities Population density is the number of people per unit of area, usually transcribed as "per square kilometre" or square mile, and which may include or exclude, for example, ar ...
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Census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of statistics. This term is used mostly in connection with Population and housing censuses by country, national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include Census of agriculture, censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations (UN) defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ten years. UN recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications, and other useful information to coordinate international practices. The United Nations, UN's Food ...
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Tripoint
A triple border, tripoint, trijunction, triple point, or tri-border area is a geography, geographical point at which the boundaries of three countries or Administrative division, subnational entities meet. There are 175 international tripoints as of 2020. Nearly half are situated in rivers, lakes or seas. On dry land, the exact tripoints may be indicated by markers or pillars, and occasionally by larger monuments. Usually, the more neighbours a country has, the more international tripoints that country has. China with 16 international tripoints and Russia with 11 to 14 lead the list of states by number of international tripoints. Other countries, like Brazil, India, and Algeria, have several international tripoints. Argentina has four international tripoints. South Africa, Pakistan and Nigeria have three international tripoints, Guatemala has two: one with Mexico and Belize, and one with Honduras and El Salvador; while Bangladesh and Mexico have one. Within Europe, landlocked Au ...
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Mamakating Park Historic District
The Mamakating Park Historic District is located on the ridge north of Masten Lake on the highest ground in the Town of Mamakating, New York, Mamakating, New York (state), New York, United States. It is a Catskill Mountains, Catskill vacation community, originally intended to be the much larger Sullivan County Club, built in the 1890s. It includes several dozen Victorian architecture, Late Victorian cottages, most of which are as they were originally built, arranged around the site of a former hotel building, and some other buildings from the mid-20th century. These few elements show the essential ideas of the much larger original resort plan. In 1998 it was recognized as a Historic district (United States), historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Geography and properties The district is a area around the horseshoe-shaped junctions of Columbian Road, Mamakating Avenue and Park Road, extending to the north from its northeast corner to include ...
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United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the Federal statistical system, U.S. federal statistical system, responsible for producing data about the American people and American economy, economy. The U.S. Census Bureau is part of the United States Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce and its Director of the United States Census Bureau, director is appointed by the president of the United States. Currently, Ron S. Jarmin is the acting director of the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau's primary mission is conducting the United States census, U.S. census every ten years, which allocates the seats of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives to the U.S. state, states based on their population. The bureau's various censuses and surveys help allocate over $675 billion in federal funds every year and it assists states, local communities, and businesses in making informed decisions. T ...
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Interstate 86 (Pennsylvania–New York)
Interstate 86 (I-86) is an Interstate Highway that extends for through northwestern Pennsylvania and the Southern Tier region of New York (state), New York, in the United States. The highway has two segments: the longer of the two begins at an interchange with Interstate 90, I-90 east of Erie, Pennsylvania, and ends at New York State Route 26 (NY 26) in Vestal, New York in Broome County, New York, Broome County, while the second extends from Interstate 81, I-81 east of Binghamton, New York, Binghamton to New York State Route 79, NY 79 in Windsor (village), New York, Windsor. When projects to upgrade the existing New York State Route 17, NY 17 to Interstate Highway standards are completed, I-86 will extend from I-90 near Erie to the New York State Thruway (Interstate 87 (New York), I-87) in Woodbury, Orange County, New York, Woodbury. The portion in Erie County, Pennsylvania, is known as the Hopkins-Bowser Highway and is signed as such at each end. In New York, th ...
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New York State Route 17
New York State Route 17 (NY 17) is a major state highway that extends for through the Southern Tier and Downstate New York, Downstate regions of New York (state), New York in the United States. It begins at the New York–Pennsylvania border, Pennsylvania state line in Mina, New York, Mina and runs east as a limited-access highway, following the Southern Tier Expressway to Binghamton and the Quickway from Binghamton east to Woodbury, Orange County, New York, Woodbury. At Woodbury, the route turns south to become a arterial road, local arterial, eventually following the Orange Turnpike to the New Jersey state line near Suffern, New York, Suffern. The portion of NY 17 west of Woodbury is in the process of being upgraded to Interstate 86 (Pennsylvania–New York), Interstate 86, and as of February 2025, the routes are concurrency (road), concurrent from the Pennsylvania border to Vestal, New York, Vestal and from Kirkwood, New York, Kirkwood to Windsor (village) ...
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Ulster County, New York
Ulster County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It is situated along the Hudson River. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 181,851. The county seat is Kingston, New York, Kingston. The county is named after the Irish Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster. The county is part of the Hudson Valley region of the state. History Founding and formation When part of the New Netherland colony, Dutch traders first called the area of present-day Ulster County "Esopus", a name borrowed for convenience from a locality on the opposite side of the Hudson. "Esopus" meant "land of flowing water and high banks," or "small brook." There is also a town named Esopus, New York, Esopus located within Ulster County. The local Lenape indigenous people called themselves Waranawanka, but soon came to be known to the Dutch as the "Esopus Indians" because they were encountered around the settlement known as Esopus. In 1 ...
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Orange County, New York
Orange County is a List of counties in New York, county located in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 401,310. The county seat is Goshen (village), New York, Goshen. This county was first created in 1683 and reorganized with its present boundaries in 1798. The county is part of the Hudson Valley region of the state. Orange County is part of the Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh metropolitan area, Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh metropolitan statistical area, which belongs to the larger New York metropolitan area, New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY–NJ–CT–PA Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census the center of population of the state of New York was located in Orange County, approximately west of the hamlet of Westbrookville, New York, Westbrookville. History Orange County was officially established on November 1, 1683 when the Province of New York was divided in ...
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