Pound Ridge

Pound Ridge
	Pound Ridge
	Pound Ridge
Basic data
Foundation :	March 7, 1788
State :	United States
State :	new York
County :	Westchester County
Coordinates :	41 ° 13 ′ N , 73 ° 34 ′ W Coordinates: 41 ° 13 ′ N , 73 ° 34 ′ W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	5,104 (as of 2010)
Population density :	87.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	60.7 km 2 (approx. 23 mi 2 ) of; which 58.6 km 2 (approx. 23 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	188 m
Postal code :	10576
Area code :	+1 914
FIPS :	36-59685
GNIS ID :	979394
Website :	www.TownOfPoundRidge.com

Pound Ridge is a town in Westchester County , New York in the United States . In 2010 the population was 5,104.

geography

Geographical location

The place is in the triangle between the Hudson River and the Long Island Sound , a good 50 kilometers northeast of Manhattan. It is a ground moraine area from the last Ice Age and is characterized by partly chapped but low hills, forests and water.

Neighboring communities

	Lewisboro
Bedford		Lewisboro
	Stamford

climate

Temperatures in Pound Ridge fluctuate between an average low temperature in February of −7.8 degrees Celsius and an average high temperature of 29.5 degrees Celsius in July. Precipitation is about 25mm per month above the US average.

history

The area was first settled in 1744, near what is now the center of the town. The population grew steadily, so that on March 7, 1788 the town was founded. The name is derived from an Indian deer trap (English: pound ) that stood there at the foot of a slope. Until the middle of the 19th century, baskets were woven at home in Pound Ridge and sold to mussel fishermen on the nearby Atlantic coast. The decline of the industry was caused both by cheaper imported goods and industrially woven baskets, and by the extinction of mussel beds due to increasing water pollution on the coast. Pound Ridge was also a center of the pre-industrial shoe industry.

Today, Pound Ridge is primarily used as a home for wealthy citizens.

Population development

Census Results - Pound Ridge, New York
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										1062
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1266	1249	1359	1437	1407	1486	1471	1194	1034	830
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	823	725	515	602	806	1234	2573	3792	4009	4550
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	4726	5104

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Pound Ridge does not have its own rail connection; the closest Amtrak stations are Stamford (20 km) and Croton-Harmon (25 km).

media

Since 1995 Pound Ridge has been supplied with a weekly paper, the Record Review . The place does not have its own radio or television stations, but is covered by stations in the area, especially in New York and Stamford.

Public facilities

The local public library has more than 50,000 books, almost 5,000 audio materials and over 2,000 videos. There are no hospitals located in Pound Ridge, the closest hospital is in neighboring Katohna, about 9 kilometers away.

education

Pound Ridge has an elementary school for 400 students from kindergarten through 5th grade. The facilities of the surrounding communities must be used for secondary schools. The largest college in the area is SUNY Westchester Community College with around 10,000 students around 25 km away; the nearest major college is Norwalk Community College , approximately 11 miles away. The nearest universities are in Danbury and Fairfield in neighboring Connecticut.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

George E. Lounsbury (1838-1904), politician
Ali MacGraw (born 1939), film actress

Personalities who have worked on site

Max Abramovitz (1908-2004), architect. Spent his old age here.
Ross Lowell (1926–2019), cameraman and Oscar winner
William Rubin (1927–2006), art historian and curator at the Museum of Modern Art

Others

Benny Goodman released an orchestral recording at Pound Ridge in 1941 .

literature

Robert Bolton: History of the County of Westchester . AS Gould, New York 1848, p. 656 (English, archive.org [PDF; 36.8 MB ; accessed on January 1, 2019]).
John Homer French: Gazetteer of the State of New York . RP Smith, Syracuse, NY 1860, pp. 705 (English, archive.org [PDF; 63.8 MB ; accessed on January 1, 2019]).