Central New York
Fulton, New York
Fulton is a city in Oswego County, in New York's Central New York region, home to about 11,500 people as of the 2020 census.
Syracuse, Finger Lakes edges, and quiet countryside. Fulton sits in that part of the state.
- Type
- City
- County
- Oswego
- Region
- Central New York
- Population (2020)
- 11,389
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Notes in and around Fulton
Short, sourced notes tied to this place, its county, or nearby communities.
This place · History & Culture
Fulton Runs Along the Oswego River
Fulton's identity connects its 1902 city origin, riverfront parks, canal corridor, and former factory land.
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Oswego DMV hours change with the season
Oswego County DMV trips should account for regular hours, summer hours, testing cutoffs, and the Oswego office's Wednesday evening window.
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Oswego Town Has Mary Walker's Bunker Hill Story
Oswego Town's civic memory includes Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, whose Bunker Hill Road roots tie the town to medicine, war service, and suffrage.
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Granby Is River Power and Lake Neatahwanta
Granby's identity comes from Oswego River waterpower, early settlement, railroad-era industry, and Lake Neatahwanta's complicated warmwater lake story.
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Oswego County DMV Has Three Local Office Routes
Oswego County drivers should check the county DMV page before license or registration errands because local office routes and hours matter.
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Hannibal Keeps Local Memory in the Historian and Historical Society
Hannibal's local memory runs through its town historian and a historical society rooted in the old community center.
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Volney Was Fredericksburg Before Fulton Split Away
Volney's historian page explains a town shaped by the Roosevelt Purchase, the old Fredericksburg name, repeated town splits, and Fulton's later separation.
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Schroeppel's Story Runs Through Phoenix's Canal Community
Schroeppel's local texture comes through Phoenix, a canal community inside the town with nineteenth-century character on the Oswego corridor.
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Schroeppel Runs Through Phoenix and the Canal
Schroeppel reads as a rural Oswego County town with a canal village, river movement, and Phoenix at its working center.
Read this note ->Property tax snapshot
Roughly $41–$41 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 $12,230–$12,230 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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