Dexter
Dexter is a village in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 1,052 at the 2010 census. The name is derived from Simon Newton Dexter, one of the village's stockholders.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,000 residents
- Description: village in New York
- Also known as: “Dexter, New York”, “Dexter, NY”, and “Fish Island”
- Postal code: 13634
Places of Interest
Highlights include Watertown International Airport and Dexter Marsh.
Watertown International Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Weatherman1126, CC0.
Watertown International Airport is in the Town of Hounsfield in Jefferson County, New York, United States, 6 mi west of Watertown. The airport is used for general aviation, but has scheduled passenger service subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. Watertown International Airport is situated 2 miles southeast of Dexter.
Dexter Marsh
Nature reserve
Dexter Marsh is a 1,350-acre marsh located at the eastern end of Lake Ontario in Dexter, New York. It was declared a National Natural Landmark in May 1973. Dexter Marsh is situated 2 miles southwest of Dexter.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glen Park and Sackets Harbor.
Glen Park
Hamlet
Glen Park is a village in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 502 at the 2010 census. The village is on the border of the towns of Brownville and Pamelia and is immediately northwest of Watertown. Glen Park is situated 4 miles east of Dexter.
Sackets Harbor
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sackets Harbor is a village of 1450 people on Lake Ontario in Northern New York. It was a naval base which withstood two Canadian attacks in battles during the War of 1812; its arch-nemesis was the British fortification at Kingston in Upper Canada.
Chaumont
Village
Chaumont is a village in Jefferson County, New York, United States. Its population was 624 at the 2010 census. The village is named for Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont, son of Benjamin Franklin's landlord and friend at Passy in France. Chaumont is situated 6 miles northwest of Dexter.
Dexter
- Categories: village in the United States, village of New York, and locality
- Location: Brownville, Jefferson, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.00784° or 44° 0′ 28″ northLongitude
-76.04437° or 76° 2′ 40″ westPopulation
1,000Elevation
282 feet (86 metres)United Nations Location Code
US DXTOpen location code
87P52X54+47OpenStreetMap ID
node 157630789OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Dexter” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دكستر”
- Basque: “Dexter”
- Catalan: “Dexter”
- Cebuano: “Dexter”
- Chinese: “德克斯特 (紐約州)”
- Chinese: “德克斯特”
- Dutch: “Dexter”
- French: “Dexter”
- German: “Dexter”
- Gilaki: “دکستر (نيۊیؤرک)”
- Gilaki: “دکستر”
- Haitian: “Dexter, New York”
- Haitian: “Dexter”
- Hungarian: “Dexter”
- Italian: “Dexter”
- Ladin: “Dexter”
- Malagasy: “Dexter, New York”
- Malagasy: “Dexter”
- Mazanderani: “دکستر (نیویورک)”
- Mazanderani: “دکستر”
- Polish: “Dexter”
- Portuguese: “Dexter”
- Serbian: “Декстер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dexter, New York”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dexter”
- Spanish: “Dexter”
- Swedish: “Dexter, New York”
- Swedish: “Dexter”
- Ukrainian: “Декстер”
- Urdu: “ڈیکسٹر، نیو یارک”
- Volapük: “Dexter, New York”
- Volapük: “Dexter”
- Welsh: “Dexter, Efrog Newydd”
- Welsh: “Dexter”
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