Adirondacks & North Country
Altona, New York
Altona is a hamlet — a community without a village government of its own — in Clinton County, part of New York's Adirondacks & North Country region, with about 662 residents at the 2020 census.
Like the rest of upstate New York, an assessed value here usually isn't the market value; the state's equalization rate reconciles the two. The local rate is below, and the STAR program can lower the school-tax part of the bill.
- Type
- Hamlet (CDP)
- County
- Clinton
- Region
- Adirondacks & North Country
- Population (2020)
- 662
Local Almanac
Notes in and around Altona
Short, sourced notes tied to this place, its county, or nearby communities.
Nearby · History & Culture
Dannemora's Civic Memory Runs Through the Prison Village
Dannemora's local story comes from the village and town layer around Clinton Correctional Facility and Adirondack-edge civic life.
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Mooers is a border-town name with its own local route
Mooers has northern Clinton County border geography, but its town notices and local offices keep the story close to home.
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Champlain is the border town with two villages and a lake coast
Champlain's official site and Lake Champlain Basin Program materials frame the town as a Canadian-border, Lake Champlain, two-village municipality.
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Beekmantown sits between Lake Champlain and the Adirondack edge
Beekmantown's official site frames the town as a Champlain Valley place with lake access and Adirondack-edge geography.
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Champlain Is A Border Town With Lake In Its Name
Champlain's identity is shaped by Lake Champlain, the Canadian border, two villages, and the northward route toward Montreal.
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Chazy Has a Wild-Forest Edge Beyond the Lake Plain
Chazy Highlands Wild Forest gives Chazy a public-land story beyond the Lake Champlain plain.
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Chazy Keeps Orchard Country on the Lake Plain
Chazy's lake-plain identity is agricultural and practical: orchards, open fields, hamlets, and a route north of Plattsburgh.
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Altona’s Flat Rock landscape is a real public-land clue
Flat Rock State Forest gives Altona a concrete outdoor identity on the Clinton County upland edge.
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Ellenburg is a four-hamlet town with memory work still happening
Ellenburg's town history ties its hamlets to the Chazy River, the Old Military Tract, early settlement, and an active town-history effort.
Read this note ->Property tax snapshot
About $16–$31 per $1,000 in Clinton County
Combined full-value rate — county + town/city + school district, per $1,000 of market value (FY2025). On a $300,000 home that's about $4,661–$9,406 a year before the STAR break. A hamlet has no government of its own — it's taxed at the rates of the town it sits in.
A planning estimate, not a bill. Your exact rate depends on your school district and any village. Confirm with the assessor.
Statewide links
Statewide starting points.
Good to know
- • Your assessed value usually isn't your market value — ask for the equalization rate.
- • Register for STAR; new applicants generally receive a credit instead of an automatic exemption on the bill.
- • Outside the cities, check the well, the septic, and the FEMA flood map before you buy.
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Tax rates: NYS Dept of Taxation & Finance (ORPTS), Real Property Tax Rates and Levy Data by Municipality, data.ny.gov dataset iq85-sdzs. (FY2025). Population: U.S. Census 2020. Reviewed June 2026. Source data ->
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