Hudson Valley
Shokan, New York
Shokan is a hamlet — a community without a village government of its own — in Ulster County, part of New York's Hudson Valley region, with about 1,100 residents at the 2020 census.
In New York the practical answer turns on the exact address — the school district, any village lines, and how the parcel is assessed all shape the tax bill. The snapshot and official links below are the place to start.
- Type
- Hamlet (CDP)
- County
- Ulster
- Region
- Hudson Valley
- Population (2020)
- 1,075
Local Almanac
Notes in and around Shokan
Short, sourced notes tied to this place, its county, or nearby communities.
Nearby · History & Culture
Hurley Has a Stone-House Street and an Ashokan Reservoir Scar
Hurley's town history ties Old Hurley stone houses, a brief capital moment, bluestone hamlets, and Ashokan Reservoir displacement into one local identity.
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Marbletown's Stone Ridge and High Falls Story Starts in 1669
Marbletown's official history connects early settlement, hilly uplands, Esopus and Rondout waterways, Stone Ridge, High Falls, and Revolutionary-era government movement.
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Woodstock's Maverick story started with a farm and a well
Woodstock's town arts identity includes Hervey White's Maverick colony, festival, and concert series, a separate bohemian branch of the art-colony story.
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Woodstock Was an Art Town Before It Was a Festival
Woodstock has been an artists' colony since 1902, and the famous 1969 festival was actually held about 60 miles away in Bethel, not here.
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Shandaken Is a Catskill Town Where Flood Information Is Civic Memory
Shandaken's Catskill setting makes flood information part of ordinary civic knowledge alongside the town's regular property records.
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Hurley's Stone Houses Keep the Past Close
Hurley's stone houses and temporary-capital memory make the town one of Ulster County's clearest old-settlement landscapes.
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Marbletown's Stone Ridge Story Is Built Into Main Street
Marbletown's story runs through Stone Ridge, early stone houses, old farms, and the Catskill-Shawangunk edge of Ulster County.
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Shandaken is a string of Catskill hamlets
Shandaken's local texture comes from its creek valleys, railroad hamlets, old factory villages, and mountain roads more than from one central downtown.
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Olive Keeps Ashokan Reservoir Memory Beside the Meeting House
Olive’s Meeting House history places old church memory, Esopus Creek settlement, and Ashokan Reservoir change in the same town archive.
Read this note ->Property tax snapshot
About $11–$26 per $1,000 in Ulster 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 $3,395–$7,930 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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