West Point
West Point is a census-designated place in Orange County, New York, United States. It is the oldest continuously occupied military post in the United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 6,760 residents
- Description: census-designated place in the U.S. state of New York
- Also known as: “West Point, New York”, “West Point, NY”, and “Westpoint”
- Address: West Point, NY 10996
- Postal codes: 10996, 10996, and 10997
Places of Interest
Highlights include West Point and Michie Stadium.
West Point
University
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The United States Military Academy, commonly known as West Point, is a United States service academy in West Point, New York, that educates cadets for service as commissioned officers in the United States Army.
Michie Stadium
Stadium
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Michie Stadium is an outdoor football stadium on the campus of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. The home field for the Army Black Knights, it opened in 1924 and has a seating capacity of 30,000 for the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Garrison and Highland Falls.
Garrison
Hamlet
Garrison is a hamlet in Putnam County, New York, United States. It is part of the town of Philipstown, on the east side of the Hudson River, across from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Highland Falls
Village
Photo: Alexisrael, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Highland Falls, formerly named Buttermilk Falls, is a village in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 3,684 at the 2020 census. The village was founded in 1906.
Cold Spring
Photo: DanTD, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cold Spring is a village in Putnam County in the state of New York in the United States of America. Its location in the scenic Hudson Highlands and proximity to a commuter railroad makes it a popular weekend escape from New York City.
West Point
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Highlands, Orange County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.3913° or 41° 23′ 29″ northLongitude
-73.96737° or 73° 58′ 3″ westPopulation
6,760Elevation
154 feet (47 metres)United Nations Location Code
US WOTOpen location code
87H892RM+G3OpenStreetMap ID
way 1463263289OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Frisian—“West Point” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Վեստ Փոյնթ”
- Asturian: “West Point”
- Azerbaijani: “Uest-Poynt”
- Basque: “West Point”
- Belarusian: “Вест-Пойнт”
- Bulgarian: “Уест Пойнт”
- Catalan: “West Point”
- Cebuano: “West Point”
- Chinese: “West Point”
- Chinese: “西点”
- Chinese: “西點”
- Czech: “West Point”
- Danish: “West Point”
- Dutch: “West Point”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ويست بوينت، نيو يورك”
- Esperanto: “Uesta Punkto”
- French: “West Point”
- Galician: “West Point, Nova York”
- Galician: “West Point”
- Georgian: “ვესტ-პოინტი”
- German: “West Point”
- Gilaki: “وست پؤینت (نيۊیؤرک)”
- Gilaki: “وست پؤینت”
- Greek: “Ουέστ Πόιντ”
- Hebrew: “וסט פוינט”
- Irish: “West Point”
- Italian: “West Point”
- Japanese: “ウェスト・ポイント”
- Japanese: “ウェストポイント”
- Korean: “웨스트포인트”
- Ladin: “West Point”
- Latin: “Promontorium Occidentale”
- Luxembourgish: “West Point”
- Min Nan Chinese: “West Point”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “West Point”
- Norwegian: “West Point”
- Ossetian: “Уэст-Пойнт”
- Persian: “وست پوینت، نیویورک”
- Persian: “وست پوینت”
- Polish: “West Point”
- Portuguese: “West Point”
- Romanian: “West Point, New York”
- Romanian: “West Point”
- Russian: “Вест-Пойнт”
- Russian: “Уэст-Пойнт”
- Serbian: “Вест Поинт”
- Serbian: “Вест Појнт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “West Point, New York”
- Serbo-Croatian: “West Point”
- Slovak: “West Point”
- Slovenian: “West Point”
- South Azerbaijani: “وست پوینت، نیویورک”
- Spanish: “West Point (Nueva York)”
- Spanish: “West Point”
- Swedish: “West Point, New York”
- Swedish: “West Point”
- Tatar: “Вест-Пойнт”
- Ukrainian: “Вест-Пойнт”
- Urdu: “ویسٹ پوائنٹ، نیو یارک”
- Volapük: “West Point”
- Welsh: “West Point”
- Western Frisian: “West Point”
- “West Point”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Delafield Pond and West Point Jewish Chapel.
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