Beacon Reservoir
Beacon Reservoir supplies water to the city of Beacon, in Dutchess County, New York, United States. It is located at 1,285 feet above sea level in a hollow between Beacon Mountain and Scofield Ridge, in the neighboring Town of Fishkill, very close to the Putnam County line.Photo: W7KyzmJt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mt. Beacon Fire Observation Tower and Dia Beacon.
Mt. Beacon Fire Observation Tower
Tower
Photo: Percolini, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Mt. Beacon Fire Observation Tower is located on the summit of South Beacon Mountain in Beacon, New York, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
Dia Beacon
Museum
Photo: Rolfmueller, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dia Beacon is the museum for the Dia Art Foundation's collection of art from the 1960s to the present and is one of the 12 locations and sites they manage.
Madam Brett Homestead
Park
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Madam Brett Homestead is an early-18th-century home located in the city of Beacon, New York, United States. It is the oldest standing building in southern Dutchess County and has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1976.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beacon and North Highlands.
Beacon
Photo: Peter Greenberg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beacon is a city located on the Hudson River in Dutchess County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 13,769. Beacon is part of the Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh metropolitan area as well as the larger New York metropolitan area.
North Highlands
Hamlet
North Highlands is a hamlet in Putnam County, New York which consists of the northernmost portions of Philipstown in the Hudson Highlands. Like the adjacent village of Nelsonville, it shares a ZIP Code and school district with nearby Cold Spring.
Glenham
Village
Glenham is a hamlet in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The community is 2.5 miles east-northeast of Beacon. Glenham has a post office with ZIP code 12527, which opened on March 6, 1839.
Beacon Reservoir
- Type: Reservoir
- Description: body of water
- Category: body of water
- Location: Dutchess County, Mid-Hudson and Catskills, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.48669° or 41° 29′ 12″ northLongitude
-73.94062° or 73° 56′ 26″ westElevation
1,283 feet (391 metres)Open location code
87H8F3P5+MQOpenStreetMap ID
way 113531404OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=reservoirGeoNames ID
5108225Wikidata ID
Q4875981
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to French—“Beacon Reservoir” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Beacon Reservoir (tubiganan sa Estados Unidos, New York, Dutchess County)”
- Cebuano: “Beacon Reservoir”
- French: “Beacon Reservoir”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include North Beacon Mountain and Scofield Ridge.
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