Shawangunk
Shawangunk is a town in southwestern Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 13,563 at the 2020 census. The town takes its name from its largest stream, the Shawangunk Kill.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Municipality with 13,600 residents
- Description: town in Ulster County, New York, United States
- Also known as: “Shawangunk, New York”, “Shawangunk, NY”, and “Town of Shawangunk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge.
Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge
Nature reserve
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife refuge located in Ulster County, New York, United States. Formerly the Galeville Military Airport, it was decommissioned in 1994 and turned over to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 1999.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Watchtower and Wallkill.
Watchtower
Village
Watchtower is a hamlet located in the Town of Shawangunk, Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 1,709 at the 2020 census. It is owned and operated by the Watchtower Society and has been in operation since 1963.
Wallkill
Village
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wallkill is a hamlet, generally identified as coterminous with ZIP Code 12589, telephone exchange 895 in the 845 area code and most of the Wallkill Central School District located mostly in the eastern half of the town of Shawangunk, Ulster County, New York, United States, but partly spilling over into adjacent regions of the Orange County towns of Newburgh and Montgomery.
Pine Bush
Village
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pine Bush is a hamlet located in the town of Crawford and adjacent to Shawangunk, New York, within Orange and adjacent to Ulster counties in the U.S. It is roughly coterminous with the 12566 ZIP code and 744 telephone exchange in the 845 area code.
Shawangunk
- Categories: town of New York and locality
- Location: Ulster County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.6164° or 41° 36′ 59″ northLongitude
-74.2331° or 74° 13′ 59″ westPopulation
13,600Elevation
322 feet (98 metres)Open location code
87H7JQ88+HQOpenStreetMap ID
node 9706005900OpenStreetMap feature
place=municipalityGeoNames ID
5137828Wikidata ID
Q3709104
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Shawangunk” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Shawangunk”
- Chechen: “Шонгам”
- Chinese: “雄格姆”
- Chinese: “香光鎮”
- French: “Shawangunk”
- German: “Shawangunk”
- Haitian: “Shawangunk, New York”
- Haitian: “Shawangunk”
- Hungarian: “Shawangunk”
- Italian: “Shawangunk”
- Mazanderani: “شوانگانک (نیویورک)”
- Mazanderani: “شوانگانک”
- Polish: “Shawangunk”
- Sinhala: “ෂාවන්ගන්ක්, නිව්යෝර්ක්”
- Sinhala: “ෂාවන්ගන්ක්”
- South Azerbaijani: “شاوانقونک، نیویورک”
- Spanish: “Shawangunk”
- Tatar: “Шонгам”
- Turkish: “Shawangunk”
- Ukrainian: “Шонгам”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Watchtower Farms Cemetery and Wallkill.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Shawangunk”. Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.