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Hudson Valley

Yorktown Heights, New York

Yorktown Heights is a hamlet — a community without a village government of its own — in Westchester County, part of New York's Hudson Valley region, with about 1,900 residents at the 2020 census.

Historic estates, farm-to-table towns, and Hudson River art and mountains. Yorktown Heights sits in that part of the state.

Type
Hamlet (CDP)
County
Westchester
Region
Hudson Valley
Population (2020)
1,884
Local notes Tax snapshot Statewide links Nearby places

Local Almanac

Notes in and around Yorktown Heights

Short, sourced notes tied to this place, its county, or nearby communities.

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Nearby · History & Culture

Somers Stands by the Elephant Hotel

Somers's local identity connects Elephant Hotel circus memory with town offices, the historical society, and nearby Muscoot Farm.

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Nearby · History & Culture

Yorktown Crosses the Croton at Pines Bridge

The Pines Bridge story gives Yorktown a Revolutionary-era crossing where local landscape and shared military memory meet.

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Nearby · History & Culture

Caramoor ties Katonah music to an estate landscape

Caramoor gives Katonah music, gardens, estate architecture, and a cultural campus that turns a Westchester visit into a place story.

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Nearby · History & Culture

Katonah Museum Gives Bedford a Compact Arts Address

Katonah Museum gives the hamlet a public contemporary-art address in northern Westchester.

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Nearby · The Outdoors

Lasdon gives Somers a garden-and-memorial landscape

Lasdon Public Gardens and Veterans Memorial gives the Somers area gardens, county parkland, and public memorial space.

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Nearby · History & Culture

Katonah’s library helps explain a moved hamlet

Katonah’s library history points to a hamlet whose identity includes relocation, civic memory, and a walkable center.

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Westchester County · History & Culture

Washington Irving rests in the cemetery that gave the village its name

Sleepy Hollow got its name from Washington Irving's 1820 tale of the Headless Horseman. Irving himself is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, where his simple gravestone is the most-visited spot.

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Westchester County · History & Culture

Mount Kisco Became Its Own Village-Town After the Railroad

Mount Kisco's unusual government shape starts with a railroad village that later separated from Bedford and New Castle.

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Westchester County · History & Culture

Harrison village history sits inside a town-village government

Harrison village history is tied to a rare town-village frame, local historian pages, and a Westchester identity that crosses hamlets.

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Property tax snapshot

About $13–$29 per $1,000 in Westchester 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 $3,933–$8,699 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.

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Nearby places

Yorktown

Town · Westchester County · 36,569

Jefferson Valley-Yorktown

Hamlet (CDP) · Westchester County · 14,444

Somers

Town · Westchester County · 21,541

Crompond

Hamlet (CDP) · Westchester County · 2,330

Shenorock

Hamlet (CDP) · Westchester County · 1,903

Katonah

Hamlet (CDP) · Westchester County · 1,603

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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