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Parts of Orange County, Caledonia County, and Chittenden County. Renamed from Jefferson County to Washington County on November 8, 1814: George Washington (1732–1799), first President of the United States (1789–1797). 60,142: 690 sq mi (1,787 km 2) Windham County: 025: Newfane: Feb 22, 1779 (as Cumberland County) (renamed 1781)
Lake Tappan is a reservoir impounded by the Tappan Dam on the Hackensack River, straddling the border between the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. [2]: 221–223 Within New Jersey, the lake traverses the border separating the municipalities of River Vale and Old Tappan in Bergen County, while extending northward across the New York state line into the town of Orangetown in Rockand County.
Some common contaminated sites include abandoned warehouses, manufacturing facilities, processing plants and landfills. In response to growing concern over health and environmental risks posed by these contaminated sites, the 96th Congress established the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up these sites.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
U.S. Route 9W overpass. Important thoroughfares in Sparkill are U.S. Route 9W, New York State Route 340, and Rockland County Route 8.The hamlet is located approximately 3.5 miles south of the Tappan Zee Bridge and 13.9 miles north of the George Washington Bridge.
The plan was to build a parkway to connect the New Jersey Palisades with the state parks along the Hudson River in Rockland and Orange counties. Welch would soon garner the support of John D. Rockefeller, who donated 700 acres (2.8 km 2) of land along the New Jersey Palisades overlooking the Hudson River in 1933.
Lake DeForest, also called DeForest Lake, [2]: 195–213 is a reservoir in Clarkstown, New York, created in 1956 by impounding the Hackensack River, which is a principal part of the water supply for Rockland County, New York and Northern New Jersey, mainly Bergen and Hudson counties. [3]
The Palisades Interstate Parkway (PIP) is a 38.25-mile (61.56 km) controlled-access parkway in the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York.The parkway is a major commuter route into New York City from Rockland and Orange counties in New York and Bergen County in New Jersey.