Bethel
Bethel is a town in Sullivan County, New York, United States. The population was estimated at 3,959 in 2020. The town received worldwide attention after it served as the location of Woodstock in 1969, which was originally planned for Wallkill, New York, but was relocated to Bethel after Wallkill withdrew.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 4,520 residents
- Description: town in Sullivan County, New York, USA
- Also known as: “Bethel, New York” and “Bethel, NY”
- Postal code: 12720
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
Arts center
Photo: JMerc27, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is an amphitheatre, performing arts center and museum located at the site of the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair in Bethel, New York.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kauneonga Lake and White Lake.
Kauneonga Lake
Hamlet
Kauneonga Lake is a hamlet in the Town of Bethel, Sullivan County, New York, United States. The community is located along New York State Route 55, 8 miles west-northwest of Monticello. Kauneonga Lake has a post office with ZIP code 12749. Kauneonga Lake is situated 2 miles east of Bethel.
White Lake
Hamlet
White Lake is a hamlet in the town of Bethel, Sullivan County, New York, United States, on the southeastern shore of a lake of the same name. It was the closest community to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969. White Lake is situated 2 miles east of Bethel.
Smallwood
Hamlet
Smallwood is a hamlet in Sullivan County, New York, United States. The population was 839 at the 2020 census. Smallwood is in the southeastern section of the Town of Bethel and is a hamlet within the town of Bethel. Smallwood is situated 3½ miles southeast of Bethel.
Bethel
- Categories: town in the United States, town of New York, and locality
- Location: Town of Bethel, Sullivan County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.68342° or 41° 41′ 0″ northLongitude
-74.87128° or 74° 52′ 17″ westPopulation
4,520Elevation
1,325 feet (404 metres)United Nations Location Code
US TZHOpen location code
87H7M4MH+9FOpenStreetMap ID
node 158805015OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yiddish—“Bethel” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Bethel”
- Chechen: “Бетел”
- Chinese: “Bethel”
- Chinese: “伯利恆鎮”
- Chinese: “伯特利”
- Chinese: “貝塞爾”
- Czech: “Bethel”
- Dutch: “Bethel”
- Estonian: “Bethel”
- Finnish: “Bethel”
- French: “Bethel”
- German: “Bethel”
- Haitian: “Bethel, New York”
- Haitian: “Bethel”
- Hungarian: “Bethel”
- Italian: “Bethel”
- Malay: “Bethel, New York”
- Mazanderani: “بتل (نیویورک)”
- Mazanderani: “بتل”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bethel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bethel”
- Polish: “Bethel”
- Portuguese: “Bethel”
- Russian: “Бетел”
- Slovak: “Bethel”
- Slovenian: “Bethel, New York”
- Slovenian: “Bethel”
- Spanish: “Bethel”
- Tatar: “Бетел”
- Turkish: “Bethel”
- Ukrainian: “Бетел”
- Uzbek: “Bethel, New York”
- Uzbek: “Bethel, NY”
- Uzbek: “Bethel”
- Yiddish: “ווייט לעיק”
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