Cohoes
Cohoes is a city in Albany County on the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers, where the Mohawk forms several channels and islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 18,100 residents
- Description: city in Albany County, New York, United States
- Also known as: “Cohoes, New York”, “Cohoes, NY”, “Ga-ha-oos”, and “Цохоес”
- Postal code: 12047
Places of Interest
Highlights include Van Schaick House and Herman Melville House.
Van Schaick House
Museum
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Van Schaick House is a historic home located on Van Schaick Island at Cohoes in Albany County, New York. It was built about 1735 for Anthony Van Schaick, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, brick dwelling with a gambrel roof.
Herman Melville House
Museum
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The Herman Melville House is a historic home located at Lansingburgh in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York. It was a home of author Herman Melville between 1838 and 1847.
Matton Shipyard
Historic site
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Matton Shipyard is a historic shipyard and canal boat service yard located on Van Schaick Island at Cohoes in Albany County, New York. It consists of eight extant buildings, various surviving features, and archaeological remains dating to the period 1916 to 1983 when the site functioned as a shipyard, repair facility, and towboat operation on the New York State Barge Canal and Champlain Canal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Green Island and Boght Corners.
Green Island
Village
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Green Island is a coterminous town-village in Albany County, New York, United States, some 8 miles north of Albany. Green Island is one of only five such town-village amalgamations in New York. Green Island is situated 2 miles south of Cohoes.
Boght Corners
Hamlet
Boght Corners is a hamlet in the town of Colonie in northern Albany County, New York, United States, that straddles U.S. Route 9. The corners that give the hamlet its name are found at the intersection of Route 9 and Boght Road, near the Boght Community Fire District's station. Boght Corners is situated 2½ miles west of Cohoes.
Crescent Station
Hamlet
Crescent Station is a hamlet of the town of Colonie in Albany County, New York, United States that straddles US Route 9. Crescent Station is situated 2½ miles northwest of Cohoes.
Cohoes
- Categories: city in the state of New York and locality
- Location: Albany, Capital District, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.7742° or 42° 46′ 27″ northLongitude
-73.7001° or 73° 42′ 0″ westPopulation
18,100Elevation
98 feet (30 metres)United Nations Location Code
US COOOpen location code
87J8Q7FX+MXOpenStreetMap ID
node 158906266OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Cohoes” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كوهوس”
- Basque: “Cohoes”
- Cebuano: “Cohoes”
- Chechen: “Когоз”
- Chinese: “Cohoes”
- Chinese: “科霍斯”
- Croatian: “Cohoes”
- Czech: “Cohoes”
- Dagbani: “Cohoes”
- Dutch: “Cohoes”
- French: “Cohoes”
- German: “Cohoes”
- Gilaki: “کوهس (نيۊیؤرک)”
- Gilaki: “کوهس”
- Haitian: “Cohoes, New York”
- Haitian: “Cohoes”
- Hungarian: “Cohoes”
- Irish: “Cohoes”
- Italian: “Cohoes”
- Japanese: “コーホーズ”
- Korean: “코호스”
- Ladin: “Cohoes”
- Mazanderani: “کوهوس (نیویورک)”
- Mazanderani: “کوهوس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cohoes”
- Persian: “کوهس، نیویورک”
- Persian: “کوهس”
- Polish: “Cohoes”
- Russian: “Кохос (Нью-Йорк)”
- Russian: “Кохос”
- Serbian: “Cohoes”
- Serbian: “Кохос”
- Serbian: “Цохоес, Неw Yорк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cohoes, New York”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cohoes”
- Slovak: “Cohoes”
- South Azerbaijani: “کوهس، نیویورک”
- Spanish: “Cohoes (Nueva York)”
- Spanish: “Cohoes”
- Tajik: “Куҳус”
- Tatar: “Когоз”
- Turkish: “Cohoes, New York”
- Turkish: “Cohoes”
- Ukrainian: “Когоз”
- Urdu: “کوہوس، نیو یارک”
- Volapük: “Cohoes, New York”
- Volapük: “Cohoes”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cohoes, New York”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cohoes”
- Welsh: “Cohoes, Efrog Newydd”
- Welsh: “Cohoes”
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