Port Washington
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hamlet in New York, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New York
- County
- Nassau
- Town
- North Hempstead
- Named after
- George Washington
- Total
- 5.65 sq mi (14.64 km )
- Land
- 4.20 sq mi (10.88 km )
- Water
- 1.45 sq mi (3.76 km )
- Elevation
- 98 ft (30 m)
- Density
- 3,987.8/sq mi (1,539.71/km )
- Demonym
- Port Washingtonian
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 (EDT)
- Zip codes
- 11050–11055
- Area codes
- 516, 363
- Fips code
- 36-59520
- Gnis feature id
- 0960979
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Port Washington
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- North Hempstead
- Population
- 16753
- Area
- 14.541047
- Elevation
- 30
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Flower Hill
- Image
- Main Street, Port Washington, Long island, New York, Looking East.jpg
- Households
- 5687
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- Commons category
- Port Washington, New York
- postal code
- 11055
- water as percent of area
- 25.4596
- per capita income
- 77137
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Encyclopedic overview
Port Washington is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) on the Cow Neck Peninsula in the Town of North Hempstead, in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The hamlet is the anchor community of the Greater Port Washington area. The population was 16,753 at the time of the 2020 census.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Port Washington” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.