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176:Town Council
153:Town Council
49:in Greenport
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1610:West Copake
1600:Spencertown
1595:Old Chatham
1585:Mellenville
1580:Hollowville
1514:Lorenz Park
1499:Copake Lake
1418:New Lebanon
1294:County seat
1207:October 17,
1169:January 31,
941:Lorenz Park
865:other races
136:Established
89: /
1662:Categories
1575:Elizaville
1565:Craryville
1549:Ancramdale
1524:Stottville
1519:Niverville
1504:Germantown
1456:Kinderhook
1428:Stuyvesant
1413:Livingston
1408:Kinderhook
1388:Germantown
1353:Austerlitz
1003:References
960:Beaver War
918:– A
842:As of the
498:Livingston
350:feature ID
258:Population
144:Government
77:73°47′42″W
74:42°13′50″N
1624:Footnotes
1433:Taghkanic
1423:Stockport
1403:Hillsdale
1398:Greenport
1368:Claverack
916:Greendale
494:Stockport
473:Geography
444:Claverack
414:Claverack
394:Greenport
378:Greenport
338:FIPS code
326:Area code
280:Time zone
250:Elevation
1461:Philmont
1443:Villages
1383:Gallatin
1373:Clermont
869:Hispanic
859:, 0.89%
855:, 0.24%
851:, 5.10%
515:Catskill
406:New York
386:New York
342:36-30565
314:ZIP code
130:Columbia
118:New York
1541:hamlets
1466:Valatie
1451:Chatham
1363:Chatham
1144:June 4,
1106:June 4,
992:painter
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488:, with
434:History
430:style.
428:Persian
358:Website
353:0979021
103:Country
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1378:Copake
1358:Canaan
1348:Ancram
1319:Hudson
1301:Hudson
968:Mohawk
933:Hudson
920:hamlet
873:Latino
844:census
681:−32.7%
531:Census
465:, and
410:Hudson
125:County
1539:Other
1509:Ghent
1393:Ghent
1340:Towns
861:Asian
849:White
826:4,473
816:−0.4%
811:4,165
796:4,180
781:4,101
766:4,029
756:11.7%
751:3,686
741:60.5%
736:3,299
726:10.2%
721:2,055
706:1,864
696:63.2%
691:1,800
676:1,103
666:37.6%
661:1,639
651:−4.5%
646:1,191
636:−2.2%
631:1,247
621:−3.8%
616:1,275
606:−7.4%
601:1,325
591:10.1%
586:1,431
576:12.0%
571:1,300
556:1,161
396:is a
319:12534
308:(EDT)
306:UTC-4
285:UTC-5
266:4,473
113:State
1476:CDPs
1311:City
1209:2014
1171:2008
1146:2015
1108:2015
1032:2014
966:and
831:7.4%
822:2020
807:2010
801:1.9%
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786:1.8%
777:1990
771:9.3%
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717:1950
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