Watchtower
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,710 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Ulster County, New York
- Also known as: “Watchtower, New York” and “Watchtower, NY”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pine Bush and Wallkill.
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. Pine Bush is situated 2½ miles southwest of Watchtower.
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. Wallkill is situated 4½ miles southeast of Watchtower.
Thompson Ridge
Hamlet
Thompson Ridge is a hamlet located within the town of Crawford, New York. The hamlet is served by a United States Post Office with the ZIP Code 10985. Thompson Ridge is located along NY 302 south of Pine Bush, Crawford's main population center. Thompson Ridge is situated 6 miles southwest of Watchtower.
Watchtower
Latitude
41.63703° or 41° 38′ 13″ northLongitude
-74.26255° or 74° 15′ 45″ westPopulation
1,710Elevation
344 feet (105 metres)Open location code
87H7JPPP+RXOpenStreetMap ID
node 9706005786OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
8480045Wikidata ID
Q6166532
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Watchtower” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “沃奇陶爾 (紐約州)”
- Chinese: “沃奇陶爾”
- French: “Watchtower”
- German: “Watchtower”
- Gilaki: “واچتاور (نيۊیؤرک)”
- Gilaki: “واچتاور”
- Irish: “Watchtower”
- Ladin: “Watchtower”
- Persian: “واچتاور، نیویورک”
- Persian: “واچتاور”
- Polish: “Watchtower”
- Scots: “Watchtower, New York”
- Scots: “Watchtower”
- Serbian: “Вочтауер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Watchtower, New York”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Watchtower”
- South Azerbaijani: “واچتاور، نیویورک”
- Spanish: “Watchtower (Nueva York)”
- Spanish: “Watchtower”
- Tatar: “Вотчтауер”
- Ukrainian: “Вотчтауер”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Wallkill and Watchtower Farms Cemetery.
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