Halfmoon
Halfmoon is a town in Saratoga County, New York, United States. The population was 25,662 at the 2020 census. The town is apparently named for the shape of the lower elevation land north of the junction of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 25,700 residents
- Description: human settlement in Saratoga County, New York, United States of America
- Also known as: “Ca-nis-ta-gua-ha”, “Half Moon”, “Halfmoon, New York”, “Halfmoon, NY”, and “Middletown”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crescent Bridge.
Crescent Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Ohlhous, Public domain.
Crescent Bridge is a 1,229-foot bridge over the Mohawk River and the Erie Canal. It is in Crescent, New York, a hamlet in the town of Halfmoon in southern Saratoga County on the northern side of the Mohawk River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Crescent Station and Dunsbach Ferry.
Crescent Station
Hamlet
Crescent Station is a hamlet of the town of Colonie in Albany County, New York, United States that straddles US Route 9. Crescent Station is situated 2 miles south of Halfmoon.
Dunsbach Ferry
Hamlet
Dunsbach Ferry is a hamlet of the town of Colonie, in Albany County, New York, United States. The hamlet sits to the east of, and below, the Thaddeus Kosciusko Bridge, where Interstate 87 crosses the Mohawk River. Dunsbach Ferry is situated 3 miles southwest of Halfmoon.
Boght Corners
Hamlet
Boght Corners is a hamlet in the town of Colonie in northern Albany County, New York, United States, that straddles U.S. Route 9. The corners that give the hamlet its name are found at the intersection of Route 9 and Boght Road, near the Boght Community Fire District's station. Boght Corners is situated 3½ miles southwest of Halfmoon.
Halfmoon
- Categories: town in the United States, town of New York, and locality
- Location: Town of Halfmoon, Saratoga, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.82758° or 42° 49′ 39″ northLongitude
-73.7179° or 73° 43′ 4″ westPopulation
25,700Elevation
276 feet (84 metres)United Nations Location Code
US HFQOpen location code
87J8R7HJ+2ROpenStreetMap ID
node 3328576335OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Halfmoon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هالفمون”
- Basque: “Halfmoon”
- Chechen: “Гафмун”
- Chinese: “哈夫蒙 (紐約州)”
- Chinese: “哈夫蒙”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هالفمون”
- French: “Halfmoon”
- German: “Halfmoon”
- Haitian: “Halfmoon, New York”
- Haitian: “Halfmoon”
- Hungarian: “Halfmoon”
- Mazanderani: “هفمون (نیویورک)”
- Mazanderani: “هفمون”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Halfmoon”
- Polish: “Halfmoon”
- Spanish: “Halfmoon”
- Tatar: “Гафмун”
- Turkish: “Halfmoon”
- Ukrainian: “Гафмун”
- Uzbek: “Halfmoon, New York”
- Uzbek: “Halfmoon”
- Uzbek: “Ҳалфмоон”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Halfmoon-Middletown Cemetery and Halfmoon-Waterford Fire Department.
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