Hamilton County (New York)

Hamilton County Courthouse
administration
US state :	new York
Administrative headquarters :	Lake Pleasant
Foundation :	February 12, 1816
Made up from:	Montgomery County
Area code :	001 518
Demographics
Residents :	4836  (2010)
Population density :	1.1 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area :	4,682.2 km²
Water surface :	234.2 km²
map
Website : www.hamiltoncounty.com

Hamilton County is a county in the state of New York in the United States . At the 2010 census , the county had 4,836 people and a population density of 1.1 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Lake Pleasant . The terrain consists of a largely forested ground moraine landscape with small differences in altitude and a large number of elongated lakes. The most important of these are Long Lake , Indian Lake and Lake Pleasant , which are also used as tourist destinations.

Hamilton County is entirely within Adirondack Park , the largest protected area in the continental United States .

geography

The county has an area of ​​4,682 square kilometers, of which 234 square kilometers are water.

Hamilton County is centrally located in the part of New York that is north of the Mohawk Valley . Three mountain ranges cross the county. One runs through the southeast corner, touches Hope, and extends northeast through Day , Athol and on to Crown Point on Lake Champlain . The second chain is the Adirondack Mountains and lies between Hope and Lake Pleasant. It runs southeast of the center of the county and has a width of ten to fifteen kilometers. Nowhere is the mountain range higher than 1200 meters, but the northern part, which is already in Essex County , includes the highest mountains in the state. At the same time, the third mountain range runs about ten kilometers away through the center of the county. It is less regularly structured, but consists of a series of individual mountains. It runs through the northwest corner of Newcomb in Essex County and the southeast corner of Franklin County , forms the border mountains between this and Clinton County and ends at Ellenburg and Chateaugay . The county is generally hilly and mountainous, but without any steep slopes and therefore well suited as pastureland.

The most striking feature of the landscape are the numerous lakes. These include the Hudson River , Black River and Raquette River . These lakes can be roughly divided into two groups. To the south of the county are Lake Pleasant , Sacandaga Lake, and Piseco Lake , which, along with some other bodies of water, provide the water for the Sacandaga River , a right tributary of the Hudson River, and to the north are Raquette Lake and Long Lake. Long Lake is 30 kilometers long, but no more than three kilometers wide. The Raquette Lake has a maximum length of only 14 miles, but has many bays and a strongly indented shoreline. From here a series of lakes extends in a north-easterly direction, which was named Eckford Chain in 1841 and is about eight kilometers long. The uppermost lake was originally named Lake Janet after the wife of the zoologist on the expedition and is now called Blue Mountain Lake . It is followed by Eagle Lake and Utowana Lake . They are drained by the Marion River , which flows into a bay on the east side of Raquette Lake. The lake is drained at its northeastern end by the Raquette River. Southwest of Raquette Lakes is another series of eight lakes, the Fulton Chain , the four lower lakes of which are already in Herkimer County .

Surrounding areas

St. Lawrence County	St. Lawrence County Franklin County	Franklin County
Herkimer County		Essex County Warren County
Herkimer County	Fulton County	Saratoga County

history

The area of ​​today's county was already included in the area of ​​Montgomery County, founded in 1772 (then still called Tryon County), when the European settlers had not yet developed this land. In 1773 the Totten and Crossfield Purchase, a large sale of land to settlers, largely encompassed what is now the county; however, the first settlement did not take place until around 1790, after the fighting between the British and French and the extensive displacement of the native tribes of the Mohawk .

Only in the course of the growing population was Hamilton County formed from Montgomery County on April 12, 1816 and named after General Alexander Hamilton . Although formally independent, the two counties remained administratively linked for many years. For a number of years a joint MP for both counties was sent to the New York State Assembly; its own courts were not set up until 1837, the associated courthouses and prisons were not built until 1840.

In the American Civil War , parts of the 97th, 115th and 153rd New York Regiments were formed from citizens of the county; But there were no fights here.

The county did not develop its own industrial centers and was largely geared towards self-sufficiency for its residents. Today, in addition to agriculture and forestry, tourism is an essential economic factor.

Sagamore Camp (2009)

Three locations have National Historic Landmark status , Camp Uncas , Camp Pine Knot and Sagamore Camp . A total of 17 buildings and sites in the county are registered in the National Register of Historic Places (as of February 18, 2018).

Population development

Hamilton County has by far the least number of inhabitants and the lowest population density in New York State.

Census Results - Hamilton County, New York

year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	-	-	1251	1325	1907	2188	3024	2960	3923	4762
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	4974	4373	3970	3929	4188	4105	4267	4714	5034	5279
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	5379	4836

cities and communes

In addition to the independent communities listed below, there is the village Speculator in the Town of Lake Pleasant in Hamilton County , which is co-administered by the parent town.

Locality	status	Population (2010)	Total area [km²]	Land area [km²]	Population density [inhabitants / km²]	founding	Specialty
Arietta	town	304	853.2	821.5	0.4	May 13, 1836
Benson	town	192	215.5	214.0	0.9	0Apr 6, 1860
Hope	town	403	108.0	105.4	3.8	Apr 15, 1818
Indian Lake	town	1,352	689.6	652.2	2.1	Nov 13, 1858
Inlet	town	333	171.9	161.1	5.4	1901
Lake Pleasant	town	781	512.8	486.9	1.6	May 26, 1812	County Seat
Long Lake	town	711	1165.1	1054.2	0.7	0May 4, 1837
Morehouse	town	86	504.4	494.9	0.5	Apr 13, 1835
Wells	town	674	462.0	457.9	1.5	May 28, 1805

literature

• John Homer French: Gazetteer of the State of New York . RP Smith, Syracuse, NY 1860 ( archive.org [PDF; 63.8 MB ; accessed on January 1, 2016]).
• Field Horne: Hamilton County . In: Peter Eisenstadt (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of New York State . Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY 2005, ISBN 978-0-8156-0808-0 , pp. 687–690 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Franklin Benjamin Hough: Gazetteer of the State of New York . tape 1 . A. Boyd, Albany, NY 1873, pp. 329 ff . ( archive.org [PDF; 58.3 MB ; accessed on January 1, 2016]).

Web links

Commons : Hamilton County (New York)  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hamilton County ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved February 22, 2011.
2. ^ ^{A b} Ebenezer Emmons, William W. Mather, James Hall: Geology of New York: Survey of the second geological district . In: Geology of New York . Vol. 2. Appleton, 1842, Hamilton County: Mountains; Surface; Lakes, S. 413–415 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
3. ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: New York . National Park Service , accessed February 18, 2018.
4. ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed February 18, 2018.
5. ↑ Hamilton County . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Accessed February 19, 2018.
6. ↑ See List of counties in New York in the English language Wikipedia
7. ↑ Population 1820–2010 according to census results
8. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
9. ↑ John Homer French: Gazetteer of the State of New York . RP Smith, Syracuse, NY 1860, pp. 331 ff . (unless otherwise stated)

Coordinates: 43 ° 39 ′  N , 74 ° 30 ′  W