Town of Monroe
Monroe is a town in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 21,387 at the 2020 census, compared to 39,912 at the 2010 census; the significant fall in census population was due to the secession of the town of Palm Tree in 2019.- Type: Locality with 43,000 residents
- Description: town in New York, United States
- Also known as: “Monroe”, “Monroe, New York”, “Monroe, NY”, “Town of Cheesecocks”, “Town of Chesecocks”, “Town of Chesekook”, and “Town of Southfield”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Central Valley-Harriman and Kiryas Joel.
Central Valley-Harriman
Central Valley is a hamlet in Woodbury, New York, United States. The population was 1,857 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a census-designated place.Kiryas Joel
Village
Kiryas Joel is a village coterminous with the Town of Palm Tree in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 32,954 at the 2020 census, approximately 5% of the estimated 712,000 population of the Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh metropolitan area. Kiryas Joel is situated 2½ miles northeast of Town of Monroe.
Palm Tree
Town
Palm Tree is a town coterminous with the village of Kiryas Joel, inhabited by the Satmar Hasidic community, formerly part of the town of Monroe. The population of Palm Tree was 32,954 at the 2020 census. Palm Tree is situated 2½ miles northeast of Town of Monroe.
Town of Monroe
- Categories: town in the United States and town of New York
- Location: Orange County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.3068° or 41° 18′ 24″ north
Longitude
-74.1922° or 74° 11′ 32″ west
Population
43,000
Elevation
725 feet (221 metres)
Open location code
87H78R45+P4
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yiddish—“Town of Monroe” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Monroe”
- Catalan: “Monroe”
- Cebuano: “Monroe”
- Chechen: “Монро”
- Chinese: “門羅”
- Chinese: “門羅鎮”
- French: “Monroe”
- Haitian: “Monroe, New York”
- Haitian: “Monroe”
- Hebrew: “מונרו”
- Hindi: “मुनरो”
- Hungarian: “Monroe”
- Italian: “Monroe”
- Korean: “먼로”
- Mazanderani: “مونرو (نیویورک)”
- Mazanderani: “مونرو”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Monroe”
- Norwegian: “Monroe”
- Polish: “Monroe”
- Russian: “Монро”
- Serbian: “Монро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Monroe, New York”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Monroe”
- Spanish: “Monroe (Nueva York)”
- Spanish: “Monroe”
- Tatar: “Монро”
- Turkish: “Monroe”
- Ukrainian: “Монро”
- Welsh: “Monroe, Efrog Newydd”
- Welsh: “Monroe”
- Yiddish: “מאנרא”
- Yiddish: “מאנראו”
- Yiddish: “מאנראוי”
- Yiddish: “מאנרוי”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mansion Ridge Golf Club and Monroe Plaza Shopping Center.
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