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Town of Ithaca

Forest Home

Forest Home is a census-designated place in the town of Ithaca, , United States. The population was 572 at the 2010 census. It is located immediately east of the Cornell University campus.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 1,170 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in Tompkins County, New York
  • Also known as: “Flea Hollow”, “Forest Home, New York”, “Forest Home, NY”, “Free Hollow”, and “Sydney’s Mill”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fuertes Observatory and Bailey Hall.

Observatory
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is an astronomical located on the North Campus of Cornell University in , . The observatory was designed by L.P.

Theater building
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is the largest auditorium at Cornell University, an Ivy League university in . The auditorium seats 1,300 people, and it is named for Liberty Hyde Bailey, the first dean of what is now Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Library
The is an extensive educational facility that services the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University. In 1871, three years into his tenure as the first president of Cornell University, Andrew Dickson White…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cayuga Heights and Northeast Ithaca.

Town
is a village in the Town of Ithaca, , United States, and a suburb of . The population was 4,114 at the 2020 census.

Neighborhood
is a census-designated place in Ithaca, New York in , , United States. The population was 2,655 at the 2000 census. is a suburb of adjacent .

Hamlet
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is a hamlet located in , , United States. It is within the Town of Dryden. is located near the west town line on New York State Route 366. flows past the town to . is situated 1½ miles east of Forest Home.

Forest Home

Latitude
42.45178° or 42° 27′ 6″ north
Longitude
-76.46844° or 76° 28′ 6″ west
Population
1,170
Elevation
922 feet (281 metres)
Open location code
87J5FG2J+PJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158516688
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
5117581
Wiki­data ID
Q3461071
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Forest Home” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فورست هوم”
  • Basque: “Forest Home”
  • Catalan: “Forest Home”
  • Cebuano: “Forest Home”
  • Chechen: “Форест-Гоум”
  • Chinese: “福里斯特霍姆 (紐約州)”
  • Chinese: “福里斯特霍姆”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فورست هوم”
  • French: “Forest Home”
  • German: “Forest Home”
  • Gilaki: “فؤرست هؤم (نيۊیؤرک)”
  • Gilaki: “فؤرست هؤم”
  • Irish: “Forest Home”
  • Italian: “Forest Home”
  • Ladin: “Forest Home”
  • Malagasy: “Forest Home, New York”
  • Malagasy: “Forest Home”
  • Persian: “فورست هوم، نیویورک”
  • Persian: “فورست هوم”
  • Polish: “Forest Home”
  • Serbian: “Форест Хоум”
  • Serbian: “Форист Хоум”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Forest Home, New York”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Forest Home”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فورست هوم، نیویورک”
  • Spanish: “Forest Home”
  • Tatar: “Форест-Гоум”
  • Turkish: “Forest Home”
  • Ukrainian: “Форест-Гоум”
  • Volapük: “Forest Home, New York”
  • Volapük: “Forest Home”

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