Mohawk Valley
Butternuts, New York
Butternuts is a town in Otsego County, in New York's Mohawk Valley region, home to about 1,700 people as of the 2020 census.
Whether you're moving in or you've been here for years, the checks that matter most are the school district, the assessment and STAR, and — outside the cities — the well, the septic, and the flood map.
- Type
- Town
- County
- Otsego
- Region
- Mohawk Valley
- Population (2020)
- 1,665
Local Almanac
Notes in and around Butternuts
Short, sourced notes tied to this place, its county, or nearby communities.
This place · History & Culture
Butternuts keeps town memory close to the counter
Butternuts' local memory has a neighborly Town Hall shape, with yearbooks, old maps, documents, photos, and a named town historian.
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New Berlin Is a Chenango Upland Town With the Unadilla on Its Edge
New Berlin's town history frames the place through rolling uplands, Great Brook, and the Unadilla River boundary.
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Gilbertsville Carries a Planned-Village Feel
Gilbertsville's small size hides a strong historic-district feel, with architecture and street pattern doing much of the talking.
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Morris keeps its story in the Butternut Valley
Morris is easier to understand through the Butternut Valley, village streets, older buildings, and a small-town center that still holds the map.
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Norwich has mother-town roots behind the city name
The Town of Norwich has its own older layer: a 1793 formation, Oneida heritage, and territory that later helped form nearby towns.
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Otego is a creek-and-rail town on the Susquehanna
Otego's local texture comes from the Susquehanna, Otsdawa Creek, early hamlets, and the 1866 railroad market shift.
Read this note ->Nearby · The Outdoors
Guilford Lake gives the town a 70-acre kettle-lake center
Guilford Lake is a natural 70-acre kettle lake with pasture, forest, homes, a hand launch, and a local fishery.
Read this note ->Nearby · Rules & Licenses
Norwich Dog Licenses Need Rabies Paperwork and the Town Clerk Route
Norwich’s homepage notice says dogs four months and older must be licensed, with current rabies documentation and town-clerk filing.
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Unadilla’s Town Page Reads Like a Clerk Counter and Meeting Board
Unadilla’s official town page gives clerk hours, board-meeting timing, court hours, assessor routing, and local notices in one civic view.
Read this note ->Property tax snapshot
Roughly $18–$23 per $1,000
Combined full-value rate — county + town/city + school district, per $1,000 of market value (FY2025). On a $300,000 home that's about $5,348–$6,783 a year before the STAR break.
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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