Nelson
Nelson is a town in Madison County, New York, United States. The population was 1,890 at the 2020 census. The town was named after Horatio Nelson, the English naval hero.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,890 residents
- Description: town in Madison County, New York, United States of America
- Also known as: “Nelson Flats”, “Nelson, New York”, “Nelson, NY”, and “Skunk Hollow”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cazenovia and Peterboro.
Cazenovia
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cazenovia is a town of 7,000 people in Madison County, in Central New York. The town has 27 sites and historic districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Peterboro
Hamlet
Peterboro, located approximately 25 miles southeast of Syracuse, New York, is a historic hamlet and currently the administrative center for the Town of Smithfield, Madison County, New York, United States. Peterboro is situated 6 miles northeast of Nelson.
New Woodstock
Hamlet
New Woodstock is a hamlet in the town of Cazenovia, Madison County, New York, United States. The zipcode is: 13122. New Woodstock is situated 6 miles southwest of Nelson.
Nelson
- Categories: town in the United States, town of New York, and locality
- Location: Town of Nelson, Madison, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.91729° or 42° 55′ 2″ northLongitude
-75.77686° or 75° 46′ 37″ westPopulation
1,890Elevation
1,437 feet (438 metres)Open location code
87J6W68F+W7OpenStreetMap ID
node 158642708OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5128415Wikidata ID
Q3709022
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Nelson” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نيلسون”
- Basque: “Nelson”
- Chechen: “Нельсон”
- Chinese: “奶路臣”
- Chinese: “納爾遜”
- Chinese: “纳尔逊”
- Dutch: “Nelson”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نيلسون”
- French: “Nelson”
- German: “Nelson”
- Haitian: “Nelson, New York”
- Haitian: “Nelson”
- Hungarian: “Nelson”
- Mazanderani: “نلسون (نیویورک)”
- Mazanderani: “نلسون”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nelson”
- Polish: “Nelson”
- Spanish: “Nelson”
- Tatar: “Нельсон”
- Turkish: “Nelson”
- Ukrainian: “Нельсон”
- Uzbek: “Nelson, New York”
- Uzbek: “Nelson”
- Uzbek: “Нелсон”
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Notable Places Nearby
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