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319:12516, 12593
176:Town Council
153:Town Council
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1678:West Copake
1668:Spencertown
1663:Old Chatham
1653:Mellenville
1648:Hollowville
1582:Lorenz Park
1567:Copake Lake
1486:New Lebanon
1362:County seat
1303: /
1238:January 31,
1176:December 9,
1045:Henry Astor
1023:West Copake
983:Copake Lake
903:other races
455:mining and
421:New England
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1730:Categories
1643:Elizaville
1633:Craryville
1617:Ancramdale
1592:Stottville
1587:Niverville
1572:Germantown
1524:Kinderhook
1496:Stuyvesant
1481:Livingston
1476:Kinderhook
1456:Germantown
1421:Austerlitz
1291:73°33′00″W
1288:42°06′12″N
1084:References
1055:Dreamlover
995:Craryville
880:As of the
350:feature ID
258:Population
144:Government
18:Copake, NY
1692:Footnotes
1501:Taghkanic
1491:Stockport
1471:Hillsdale
1466:Greenport
1436:Claverack
1018:Weedmines
520:Manhattan
475:Geography
449:Taghkanic
444:in 1860.
390:Cook-pake
338:FIPS code
326:Area code
314:ZIP codes
280:Time zone
250:Elevation
85:73°34′6″W
57:Town hall
1529:Philmont
1511:Villages
1451:Gallatin
1441:Clermont
1134:March 7,
907:Hispanic
897:, 0.12%
893:, 0.46%
889:, 0.70%
510:via the
457:smelting
386:New York
138:Columbia
126:New York
82:42°8′2″N
1609:hamlets
1534:Valatie
1519:Chatham
1431:Chatham
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1446:Copake
1426:Canaan
1416:Ancram
1387:Hudson
1369:Hudson
1196:, p.46
959:Copake
911:Latino
882:census
719:−13.2%
689:−15.7%
674:−20.5%
599:−10.1%
554:Census
374:Copake
133:County
1607:Other
1577:Ghent
1461:Ghent
1408:Towns
899:Asian
887:White
869:−7.4%
864:3,346
854:10.3%
849:3,615
834:3,278
819:3,118
809:29.2%
804:2,854
794:35.5%
789:2,209
779:10.3%
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764:−1.3%
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749:28.6%
744:1,498
729:1,165
714:1,114
699:1,283
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639:1,847
629:11.3%
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609:1,652
594:1,505
579:1,675
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285:UTC-5
266:3,346
121:State
1544:CDPs
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1178:2014
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860:2020
845:2010
839:5.1%
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824:9.3%
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614:9.8%
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