Scotchtown, New York

About Scotchtown

Set in the southern part of New York, Scotchtown is a small unincorporated community.

Scotchtown holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 4.84 square miles.

📰 Scotchtown News Today

• Scotchtown Air Quality Index (AQI) and USA Air Pollution IQAir · Jun 22
• Prehistoric mastodon jaw found in backyard of New York home - ABC News ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos · Feb 11
• Middletown house, for sale for $1.1M, blends history, modernity - Times Herald-Record Times Herald-Record · Feb 4
• 126-acre Bangladesh Cemetery project with 1 lakh graves set to begin operations in New York The Business Standard · Jun 17
• Scotchtown, New York Population 2026 World Population Review · Aug 15

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

What Makes Scotchtown Unique

• The only place in America named Scotchtown — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in southern New York, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Small-town pace of life: less traffic, more community, and neighbors who wave.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 4 miles.

📍 Neighborhoods in Scotchtown

Click a neighborhood to see it on the map.

🍽️ Where to Eat in Scotchtown

• Cosimo's Middletown — pizza
• Starbucks — coffee shop (café)
• Alphonso's Pizza — pizza
• Buffalo Wild Wings — wings
• Long Fu — chinese
• Olive Garden — italian
• Peccorino's — italian

Local spots mapped by the OpenStreetMap community.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Scotchtown

• Highland Lakes State Park · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Bullville Park reviews ★
• Circle Drive Park reviews ★
• Dog Park reviews ★
• Fortune Road Park reviews ★
• Howard Drive Park reviews ★
• Patio Road Park reviews ★
• Sarah Lane Park reviews ★
• Stirba Park reviews ★

Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.

🏫 Schools in Scotchtown

• CIRCLEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• CIRCLEVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL
• PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Public schools, U.S. Dept. of Education (NCES) 2023–24 directory.

⚡ Quick Facts

🗺️ Map of Scotchtown

🏘️ Nearby Communities