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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New York
- County
- Warren
- Incorporated
- 1839 (village), 1908 (city)
- Type
- Mayor-Council
- Mayor
- Diana Palmer ( D )
- City
- 3.99 sq mi (10.33 km )
- Land
- 3.85 sq mi (9.97 km )
- Water
- 0.14 sq mi (0.36 km ) 2.54%
- Urban
- 35.35 sq mi (91.55 km )
- Elevation
- 344 ft (105 m)
- Density
- 3,851.1/sq mi (1,486.92/km )
- Metro
- 128,774
- Time zone
- UTC−5 (EST)
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 (EDT)
- Area codes
- 518, 838
- Fips code
- 36-29333
- Gnis feature id
- 0951223
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Glens Falls, NY - Official Website | Official Website
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Encyclopedic overview
Glens Falls is a city in Warren County, New York, United States and is the central city of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 14,830 at the 2020 census. The name was given by Colonel Johannes Glen, the falls referring to a large waterfall in the Hudson River at the southern end of the city.
Glens Falls is a city in the southeastern corner of Warren County, surrounded by the town of Queensbury to the north, east, and west, and by the Hudson River and Saratoga County to the south. Glens Falls is known as "Hometown U.S.A.", a title Look magazine gave it in 1944. The city has also referred to itself as the "Empire City."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Glens Falls” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.