Kerhonkson, New York State New York Ulster County New York incorporated and unincorporated areas Kerhonkson highlighted.svg Location in Ulster County and the state of New York.
Kerhonkson /k r h eks n/ is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Ulster County, New York, United States.
Kerhonkson is a small hamlet which, along with Accord, makes up the Town of Rochester on US 209, just south of the town's boundary with the Town of Wawarsing and just north of where US 44 ends and NY 55 joins 209 south.
The town is home to Kerhonkson Elementary school, one of two elementary schools inside the Rondout Valley Central School District.
Kerhonkson is positioned at 41 46 28 N 74 17 51 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the CDP has a total region of 5.3 square miles (14 km2), all land.
There were 707 homeholds out of which 29.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 45.5% were married couples living together, 14.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 34.4% were non-families.
In the CDP, the populace was spread out with 25.8% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 28.0% from 25 to 44, 21.6% from 45 to 64, and 17.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the CDP was $36,597, and the median income for a family was $43,500.
About 6.4% of families and 10.2% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 9.5% of those under age 18 and 9.2% of those age 65 or over.
Peg Leg Bates owned and directed The Peg Leg Bates Country Club in Kerhonkson, New York, from 1951 to 1987.
This made Bates the first black resort owner in Ulster County in the Catskill Mountains, the famous Borscht Belt of Jewish resorts, hotels, and bungalow colonies.
Kerhonkson contained what was once the world's biggest garden gnome, constructed in 2005; it is situated on Route 209 in front of Kelder's Farm and is titled Gnome Chomsky. There are two other, larger gnomes that now hold the distinct ion of being the world's largest. New York portal United States Enumeration Bureau.
New York State Museum.
Municipalities and communities of Ulster County, New York, United States Denning Esopus Gardiner Hardenburgh Hurley Kingston Lloyd Marbletown Marlborough New Paltz Olive Plattekill Rochester Rosendale Saugerties Shandaken Shawangunk Ulster Wawarsing Woodstock Accord Clintondale Cragsmoor East Kingston Gardiner Glasco High Falls Highland Hillside Hurley Kerhonkson Lake Katrine Lincoln Park Malden-on-Hudson Marlboro Milton Napanoch Phoenicia Pine Hill Plattekill Port Ewen Rifton Rosendale Hamlet Saugerties South Shokan Stone Ridge Tillson Walker Valley Wallkill Watchtower West Hurley Woodstock Zena This populated place also has portions in an adjoining county or counties
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Census-designated places in New York - Census-designated places in Ulster County, New York - Hamlets in New York - Wawarsing, New York - Ukrainian communities in the United States - Hamlets in Ulster County, New York
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