Spafford Valley
Spafford Valley is a hamlet in Onondaga County, New York, United States, in the Otisco Valley south of Otisco Lake. The hamlet is noted for "The Bucktail," a picturesque gorge with waterfalls.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet in Onondaga County, New York, United States
- Also known as: “Spafford Valley, New York” and “Spafford Valley, NY”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ripley Hill and Spafford Forest.
Ripley Hill
Peak
Ripley Hill straddles the divide between the Skaneateles Lake and Otisco Lake watersheds, it was once considered to be the highest point in Onondaga County, New York at 1,986 feet, but is now recognized to be slightly lower than the high point of Highland Forest, Fellows Hill 2019 ft and Morgan Hill at 2060 ft. Ripley Hill is situated 2½ miles south of Spafford Valley.
Spafford Forest
Nature reserve
Spafford Forest is an Onondaga County preserve that provides trails for hiking and dirt biking. It is close to Ripley Hill. Spafford Forest is situated 2½ miles southeast of Spafford Valley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Spafford and Otisco.
Spafford
Village
Photo: Lvklock, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Spafford is a town in Onondaga County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 1,588. The town was named after Horatio Gates Spafford, a writer and founder of the local library. Spafford is situated 2 miles southwest of Spafford Valley.
Otisco
Village
Otisco is a town in Onondaga County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 2,368. Otisco is in the southwestern part of the county, situated at the northern edge of the Appalachian Highlands, where an escarpment declines to the Lake Ontario plain and the city of Syracuse five miles to the north. Otisco is situated 3 miles northeast of Spafford Valley.
Borodino
Hamlet
Borodino is a hamlet located at the intersection of New York State Route 41 and New York State Route 174 in the Town of Spafford in Onondaga County, New York, United States, near Skaneateles Lake. Borodino is situated 6 miles northwest of Spafford Valley.
Spafford Valley
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Town of Spafford, Onondaga, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.82312° or 42° 49′ 23″ northLongitude
-76.24021° or 76° 14′ 25″ westElevation
856 feet (261 metres)Open location code
87J5RQF5+6WOpenStreetMap ID
node 157609105OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Volapük—“Spafford Valley” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “斯帕福德瓦利 (紐約州)”
- Chinese: “斯帕福德瓦利”
- Irish: “Spafford Valley”
- Japanese: “スパフォード・ヴァリー”
- Turkish: “Spafford Valley”
- Volapük: “Spafford Valley (New York)”
- Volapük: “Spafford Valley (NY)”
- Volapük: “Spafford Valley, New York”
- Volapük: “Spafford Valley, NY”
- Volapük: “Spafford Valley”
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Highlights include Bucktail Falls and Moon Hill Reforestation Area.
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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 “Spafford Valley”. Photo: Jeffrey Johnson, CC BY-SA 2.0.