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Dutchess County

Beacon

Beacon is a city located on the in , United States. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 13,769. Beacon is part of the Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh metropolitan area as well as the larger .
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  • Type: Town with 13,800 residents
  • Description: city in Dutchess County, New York, United States
  • Also known as: “Beacon, New York”, “Beacon, NY”, “Fishkill”, “Fishkill Landing, New York”, “Matteawan, New York”, and “Mattewan”
  • Postal code: 12508

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dia Beacon and Madam Brett Homestead.

Museum
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is the museum for the Dia Art Foundation's collection of art from the 1960s to the present and is one of the 12 locations and sites they manage.

Park
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The is an early-18th-century home located in the city of Beacon, , United States. It is the oldest standing building in southern Dutchess County and has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1976.

Railway station
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is a commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad Hudson Line located in Beacon, . The station has three tracks, with one island platform and one side platform.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Newburgh and New Windsor.

Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in , United States. With a population of 28,856 as of the 2020 census, it is a principal city of the Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh metropolitan area with an estimated 712,000 residents.

Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in , , United States. The population was 27,805 at the 2020 census. It is located on the eastern side of the county and is adjacent to the and the .

Village
is a hamlet in , , United States. It is part of the ––, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger ––, NY--- . is situated 3½ miles northwest of Beacon.

Beacon

Latitude
41.5048° or 41° 30′ 17″ north
Longitude
-73.9695° or 73° 58′ 10″ west
Population
13,800
Elevation
138 feet (42 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US BCN
Open location code
87H8G23J+W5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158803498
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5108219
Wiki­data ID
Q812892
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Beacon” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيكون”
  • Armenian: “Բեքոն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Beason”
  • Basque: “Beacon”
  • Catalan: “Beacon”
  • Cebuano: “Beacon”
  • Chechen: “Бикен”
  • Chinese: “Beacon”
  • Chinese: “比肯”
  • Croatian: “Beacon”
  • Czech: “Beacon”
  • Dagbani: “Beacon”
  • Danish: “Beacon”
  • Dutch: “Beacon”
  • Finnish: “Beacon”
  • French: “Beacon”
  • German: “Beacon”
  • Gilaki: “بیکن (نيۊیؤرک)”
  • Gilaki: “بیکن”
  • Greek: “Μπέικον Νέας Υόρκης”
  • Haitian: “Beacon, New York”
  • Haitian: “Beacon”
  • Hebrew: “ביקון”
  • Hungarian: “Beacon”
  • Irish: “Beacon”
  • Italian: “Beacon”
  • Japanese: “ビーコン”
  • Korean: “비컨”
  • Ladin: “Beacon”
  • Latin: “Beacon”
  • Malagasy: “Beacon, New York”
  • Malagasy: “Beacon”
  • Malayalam: “ബീക്കൺ, ന്യൂയോർക്ക്”
  • Malayalam: “ബീക്കൺ”
  • Mazanderani: “بیکن (نیویورک)”
  • Mazanderani: “بیکن”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Beacon”
  • Persian: “بیکون، نیویورک”
  • Persian: “بیکون”
  • Polish: “Beacon”
  • Portuguese: “Beacon”
  • Russian: “Бикон”
  • Serbian: “Бикон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beacon, New York”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beacon”
  • Slovak: “Beacon”
  • Slovenian: “Beacon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیکون، نیویورک”
  • Spanish: “Beacon, Nueva York”
  • Spanish: “Beacon”
  • Swedish: “Beacon, New York”
  • Swedish: “Beacon”
  • Tajik: “Биакун,Ню-Йорк”
  • Tajik: “Биакун”
  • Tajik: “Бикен”
  • Tatar: “Бикен (Нью-Йорк)”
  • Tatar: “Бикен”
  • Turkish: “Beacon, New York”
  • Turkish: “Beacon”
  • Ukrainian: “Бікен”
  • Volapük: “Beacon (NY)”
  • Volapük: “Beacon, New York”
  • Volapük: “Beacon, NY”
  • Volapük: “Beacon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Beacon, New York”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Beacon”
  • Welsh: “Beacon, Efrog Newydd”
  • Welsh: “Beacon”

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