Denning, New York
| Denning, New York | |
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Table and Peekamoose mountains, the southernmost of the Catskill High Peaks, dominate the view in the town's higher ground.
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| Name origin: William Denning, early landowner and settler | |
| Country | United States |
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| State | New York |
| County | Ulster |
| Landmark | Table Mountain, Peekamoose Mountain |
| River | Rondout Creek, Neversink River |
| Center | Town Hall |
| - elevation | 1,960 ft (597 m) |
| - coordinates | 41°57′N 74°29′W / 41.950°N 74.483°WCoordinates: 41°57′N 74°29′W / 41.950°N 74.483°W |
| Highest point | |
| - location | Table Mountain |
| - elevation | 3,847 ft (1,173 m) |
| - coordinates | 41°57′31″N 74°24′18″W / 41.95861°N 74.40500°W |
| Lowest point | |
| - location | Rondout Creek at Sullivan County line |
| - elevation | 960 ft (293 m) |
| - coordinates | 41°53′05″N 74°28′27″W / 41.88472°N 74.47417°W |
| Area | 105.3 sq mi (273 km2) |
| - land | 105.2 sq mi (272 km2) |
| - water | 0.1 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Population | 551 (2010) |
| Date | 1849 |
| Timezone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| - summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| Postal code | 12782 |
| Area code | 845 |
| FIPS code | 36-20247 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0978897 |
 Location of Denning within Ulster County and the state of New York
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 Location of New York in the United States
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Denning is an isolated town in Ulster County, New York, USA. The population was 551 at the 2010 census. The town is named after an early landowner, William Denning. Denning is located in the western part of the county, deep inside the Catskill Mountains. The location of the town in the Catskill State Park accounts in part for its low population.
Denning was established in 1849 from part of the Town of Shandaken. The region had been part of the Hardenburgh Patent granted to Johannes Hardenburgh in 1708. William H. Denning, for whom the settlement was named, bought a tract of land at a tax sale.
The Red Hill Fire Observation Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 105.3 square miles (273 km2), of which, 105.2 square miles (272 km2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (0.07%) is water.
The town is in the Catskill Mountains and borders Sullivan County, New York. It is rugged and heavily wooded. Most settlement is concentrated around the hamlet of Sundown on Rondout Creek, along the two branches of the Neversink River or in the plateau between the two valleys northeast of Red Hill, at elevations 2,500 feet (762 m) above sea level and higher.
Since the town is entirely within the Catskill Park, large tracts of land are owned by the state Department of Environmental Conservation as part of New York's Forest Preserve. These forests are either in the Sundown Wild Forest in the eastern parts of the town or the Slide Mountain Wilderness Area in its central regions. Within the former are the three southernmost Catskill High Peaks: Peekamoose, Table and Lone mountains. At 3,847 feet (1,173 m), Table's summit is the highest point in the town. Slide Mountain, the highest peak in the Catskills, is north of Denning.
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