Ballston
Ballston is a town in Saratoga County, New York, United States. The population was 11,831 at the 2020 census. The name is derived from an early settler, Eliphalet Ball, a Presbyterian minister who relocated there from Westchester County, New York, in 1770.- Type: Municipality with 11,800 residents
- Description: town in New York, USA
- Also known as: “Ballston, New York”, “Ballston, NY”, and “Town of Ballston”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ballston Lake.
Ballston Lake
Lake
Ballston Lake is located in the hamlet of Ballston Lake, New York in the town of Ballston. This narrow 3.7-mile -long lake with an unknown maximum depth in the south of the region, was called Shanantaha or Sha-nen-da-ho-ra by natives.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballston Spa and Burnt Hills.
Ballston Spa
Photo: N-Lange.de, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ballston Spa is a town of 5,300 people in New York. The town is well-known for its walkable village with hometown restaurants, shops and museums.
Burnt Hills
Village
Photo: Peter Flass, CC BY 3.0.
Burnt Hills is a hamlet within the town of Ballston, in Saratoga County, New York, United States. Its ZIP code is 12027. It is situated along NY 50, approximately 14 miles south of downtown Saratoga Springs, and 8.5 miles north of downtown Schenectady.
Ballston
- Categories: town in the United States, town of New York, and locality
- Location: Saratoga, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.9609° or 42° 57′ 39″ northLongitude
-73.8865° or 73° 53′ 11″ westPopulation
11,800Elevation
407 feet (124 metres)Open location code
87J8X467+8COpenStreetMap ID
node 3328576333OpenStreetMap feature
place=municipalityGeoNames ID
5107815Wikidata ID
Q3708709
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Uzbek—“Ballston” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Ballston”
- Chechen: “Боллстон”
- Chinese: “鲍尔斯顿”
- French: “Ballston”
- German: “Ballston”
- Haitian: “Ballston, New York”
- Haitian: “Ballston”
- Hungarian: “Ballston”
- Italian: “Ballston”
- Mazanderani: “بالستون (نیویورک)”
- Mazanderani: “بالستون”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ballston”
- Norwegian: “Ballston”
- Polish: “Ballston”
- Russian: “Болстон”
- Spanish: “Ballston”
- Tatar: “Боллстон”
- Turkish: “Ballston”
- Ukrainian: “Боллстон”
- Urdu: “بالسٹن، نیویارک”
- Uzbek: “Ballston, New York”
- Uzbek: “Ballston”
- Uzbek: “Баллстон”
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Localities in the Area
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