West Point, New York#Geography and climate

The site for West Point was originally picked because of the pronounced S-curve in the Hudson River at that point during the American Revolutionary War, and was the subject of a committee reporting on fortifications in the Hudson River in November 1775, which first recommended occupying the land.{{Cite web |title=West Point |url=https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/west-point/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705190333/https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/west-point/ |archive-date=July 5, 2023 |access-date=July 5, 2023 |publisher=George Washington's Mount Vernon |language=en}} Construction of the fort was begun under Captain Louis de la Radiere{{cite book |author=J. E. Kaufmann |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780306812941 |title=Fortress America |date=2004 |publisher=Da Capo Press |others=Tomasz Idzikowski (illus.) |isbn=978-0-306-81294-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780306812941/page/117 117] |quote=de la radiere. |url-access=registration}} as chief engineer of the fort, however, New York Governor George Clinton thought that Radiere was "lacking" in the knowledge needed to hold his position. Thus it was completed under Polish Colonel Tadeusz Kościuszko between 1778–1780; it was a key defensive fortification, overlooking the turn in the Hudson River and the Great Chain.{{cite web |title=West Point |url=http://www.revolutionaryday.com/usroute9w/westpoint/default.htm |access-date=February 11, 2009 |publisher=A Revolutionary Day |archive-date=March 11, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090311074209/http://www.revolutionaryday.com/usroute9w/westpoint/default.htm |url-status=live}} On January 27, 1778, Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parsons and his brigade, including elements of Connecticut Colony's patriot militia, crossed an iced over Hudson River and climbed to the plain on West Point.Crackel (1991), p. 41.

General George Washington watched the construction of the fort closely and considered the fort to be General Alexander McDougall's "first priority".

In 1778, Major General Israel Putnam wrote, "The place agreed upon to obstruct the navigation of Hudson river was at West Point." A fort there, Fort Clinton, named after the governor's brother, Colonel James Clinton{{Efn|Fort Clinton was originally named Fort Arnold, however, with Benedict Arnold's defection to the British Army, the fort was renamed to Fort Clinton.{{Cite web |title=Fort Clinton |url=https://www.battlefields.org/visit/heritage-sites/fort-clinton |access-date=July 7, 2023 |website=American Battlefield Trust |language=en-US |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707162019/https://www.battlefields.org/visit/heritage-sites/fort-clinton |url-status=live}}}} (whose brigade built the main fort), was built as well. The southern and western walls were nine feet high and twenty feet thick. Three redoubts and batteries on the south were named Forts Meigs, Wyllys, and Webb.Storozynski, A., 2009, The Peasant Prince, New York: St. Martin's Press, {{ISBN|9780312388027}}{{rp|53,55}}

File:Plan des forts, batteries et poste de West-Point, 1780 (2674338525).jpg

West Point was staffed by a small garrison of Continental Army Soldiers from early in 1776 through the end of the war. A great iron chain was laid across the Hudson at this point in 1778 in order to prevent British Navy vessels from sailing further up the Hudson River, which was never tested by the British.Diamant, Chaining the Hudson, p. 122 The site comprised multiple redoubts, as well as Fort Putnam, situated on a high hill overlooking the river. Named after its builder, Revolutionary War General and engineer Rufus Putnam, the fort is still preserved in its original design.Hubbard, Robert Ernest. Major General Israel Putnam, pp. 157–158, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, 2017. {{ISBN|978-1476664538}}.Livingston, William Farrand. Israel Putnam: Pioneer, Ranger, and Major-General, 1718–1790, pp. 373–375, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1901.

Parliament sent instructions to General Sir Henry Clinton to force George Washington out of West Point. Clinton decided to capture the strategically important posts Stony Point and Verplanck's Point,{{Cite web |title=Battle of Stony Point |url=https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/battle-of-stony-point/ |access-date=July 7, 2023 |website=George Washington's Mount Vernon |language=en |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707162539/https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/battle-of-stony-point/ |url-status=live}} which were twelve miles south of West Point. Clinton captured the forts on June 1, 1779. To block the British advance, Washington moved his troops further up the Hudson.{{Cite book |last=Philbrick |first=Nathaniel |title=Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution |publisher=Penguin Random House |year=2016 |isbn=9780143110194 |edition=6th |pages=247–249}}

Early on in May 1779, General Benedict Arnold had met with a Philadelphia merchant named Joseph Stansbury. Afterwards, Stansbury had gone to Sir Henry Clinton, to whom he offered Arnold's "services". Clinton had been pursuing a campaign to take control of the Hudson River, so he had been interested in the plans and information of the defenses of West Point and other defenses on the Hudson River. Arnold wrote a series of letters to Clinton, one of which was written on July 12, making explicit the offer to surrender West Point to the British, later for a finalized offer of £20,000. On August 3, 1780, Arnold obtained command of West Point, which also gave him command of the American-controlled portion of the Hudson. Arnold then intentionally started weakening the fort's defenses, and through a letter sent to Clinton, proposing a meeting with British Major John André to discuss information on West Point. A meeting was set for September 11, however, Arnold and André did not meet until September 21. Carrying the plans for West Point, André was captured on September 23 by three militiamen, and the information to West Point was found.{{Cite book |last=Randall |first=Willard Sterne |title=Benedict Arnold: patriot and traitor |date=1990 |publisher=Morrow |isbn=978-1-55710-034-4 |location=New York, N.Y}} After Arnold's betrayal, the fort, which was also known as Fort Arnold at the time, was renamed to Fort Clinton after General James Clinton.{{Cite web |title=Benedict Arnold |url=https://www.ushistory.org/ValleyForge/served/arnold.html |access-date=July 5, 2023 |website=www.ushistory.org |archive-date=February 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227034253/https://www.ushistory.org/ValleyForge/served/arnold.html |url-status=live}}

After the conclusion of the American Revolution, West Point was used as a storage facility for cannon and other military property used by the Continental Army{{Cite web |title=A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875 |url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsp&fileName=016/llsp016.db&recNum=51 |access-date=July 5, 2023 |website=memory.loc.gov |archive-date=February 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223003510/http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsp&fileName=016%2Fllsp016.db&recNum=51 |url-status=live}} and until November 28, 1779, was used as the temporary headquarters to George Washington, who called it "the most important Post in America" in 1781. Viewing a standing army as "dangerous", Congress demobilized American forces but left fewer than a hundred men at West Point. However, it was still the largest post in the army in the immediate years after the Revolutionary War.Ambrose, pages 9–10.File:West Point, from Fort Putnam. (3990857882) crop.jpgFavoring West Point due to its location and defenses, Henry Knox and Alexander Hamilton made the first official recommendation to establish a military academy at West Point in 1790. However, Congress rejected the proposal, although earlier in 1790, New York merchant and American Revolution patriot Stephen Moore sold his estate (known as "Moore's Folly") to the United States, following an Act of Congress that solidified the sale{{Cite journal |last=Miller |first=Agnes |date=1952 |title=Owner of West Point |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23153463 |journal=New York History |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=303–312 |jstor=23153463 |issn=0146-437X |access-date=February 18, 2023 |archive-date=February 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230218160721/https://www.jstor.org/stable/23153463 |url-status=live}} on September 10, 1790, for $11,085,{{Cite book |last=Boynton |first=Edward Carlisle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GpU-AAAAYAAJ&q=west+point+ny&pg=PA5 |title=History of West Point: And Its Military Importance During the American Revolution: and the Origin and Progress of the United States Military Academy |date=1871 |publisher=D. Van Nostrand |language=en}} which meant Congress had gained full possession of the fort. The United States Military Academy was established at West Point in 1802.McDonald (2004), p. 184Ambrose (1966), p. 22. It is the nation's oldest service academy,{{Cite news |last=Wolf |first=Zachary |date=June 6, 2019 |title=West Point has an outsize importance in US history |work=CNN |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/06/politics/west-point-history/index.html |access-date=July 10, 2023 |archive-date=July 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230711045238/https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/06/politics/west-point-history/index.html |url-status=live}} and is metonymically called "West Point" as well.{{cite web |last=Wire |first=S. I. |title=Army unveils new name, uniforms and logo in athletics rebrand |url=https://www.si.com/college-football/2015/04/13/army-football-new-uniforms-logo |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401120741/https://www.si.com/college-football/2015/04/13/army-football-new-uniforms-logo |archive-date=April 1, 2019 |access-date=July 11, 2023 |website=SI.com}} West Point has the distinction of being the longest continuously occupied United States military installation.

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West Point is located at 41° 23′ 42" N 73° 57' 18" W (41.395° N 73.955° W). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of {{cvt|25.1|sqmi}}; {{cvt|24.3|sqmi}} land and {{cvt|0.7|sqmi|km2}} water. It is located in the town of Highlands and is in Orange County.[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/MapItDrawServlet?geo_id=06000US3607134550&_bucket_id=50&tree_id=420&context=saff&_lang=en&_sse=on Highlands town, New York].{{Dead link|date=March 2020|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on August 25, 2011."[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/MapItDrawServlet?geo_id=16000US3680747&_bucket_id=50&tree_id=420&context=saff&_lang=en&_sse=on West Point CDP, New York]".{{Dead link|date=March 2020|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on August 25, 2011. West Point and the contiguous village of Highland Falls are on the western bank of the Hudson River.{{Cite news |last=Cheslow |first=Jerry |date=May 15, 1994 |title=If You're Thinking of Living In/ Highland Falls; In the U.S. Military Academy's Shadow |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/15/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-living-highland-falls-us-military-academy-s-shadow.html |access-date=July 13, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230713044931/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/15/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-living-highland-falls-us-military-academy-s-shadow.html |url-status=live}}

West Point has a humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa),{{Cite web |title=West Point, New York Köppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase) |url=http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather-summary.php3?s=64937&cityname=West+Point,+New+York,+United+States+of+America |access-date=July 13, 2023 |website=Weatherbase |archive-date=July 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230713050347/http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather-summary.php3?s=64937&cityname=West+Point,+New+York,+United+States+of+America |url-status=live}} with four distinct seasons.{{Cite web |title=Overview |url=https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/river-ecology/overview |website=American Museum of Natural History |access-date=July 13, 2023 |archive-date=July 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230713051243/https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/river-ecology/overview |url-status=live}} Summers are hot and humid, while winters are cold with moderate snowfall.{{Cite web |title=Climate in West Point, New York |url=https://www.bestplaces.net/climate/city/new_york/west_point |website=bestplaces |access-date=July 13, 2023 |archive-date=July 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230713054852/https://www.bestplaces.net/climate/city/new_york/west_point |url-status=live}} The monthly daily average temperature ranges from {{cvt|27.5|°F|1}} in January to {{cvt|74.1|°F|1}} in July. The average annual precipitation was approximately {{cvt|51.47|in|mm|sigfig=3}} from 1991–2020; snow averaged at {{cvt|35.7|in|cm|0}} from 1991–2020, although this total may vary considerably from year to year.{{Cite web |title=NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals Quick Access |url=https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/us-climate-normals/#dataset=normals-annualseasonal&timeframe=30&station=USC00309292 |access-date=December 15, 2023 |website=www.ncei.noaa.gov |archive-date=May 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505115421/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/us-climate-normals/#dataset=normals-annualseasonal&timeframe=30&station=USC00309292 |url-status=live}} Extremes in temperature range from {{cvt|106|°F|0}} on July 22, 1926, down to {{Convert|-7|F|C}} on January 22, 1984.

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{{US Census population

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|2020 = 7341

|footnote = U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web |url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html |title=Census of Population and Housing |publisher=Census.gov |access-date=June 4, 2016 |archive-date=September 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912061536/http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html |url-status=live}}

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As of the census of 2020, there were 7,341 people, and 860 households residing in the CDP, with the average household size being 3.79 persons per household. The population density was {{convert|398.2|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the CDP was 69.3% white, 5.4% African American, 0.2% Native American, 4.4% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, and 10.3% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 12.0% of the population. The age distribution is 23.5% under the age of 18, and 0.4% who were 65 years of age or older.{{Cite web |title=U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: West Point CDP, New York |url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/westpointcdpnewyork/PST045222 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009233226/https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/westpointcdpnewyork/PST045222 |archive-date=October 9, 2023 |access-date=July 13, 2023 |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |language=en}} File:West Point On Hudson.JPG]]There were 860 households, out of which 79.5% were a married couple family household, 16.4% had a female householder with no spouse present, and 3.3% had a male householder with no spouse present.{{Cite web |title=Explore Census Data |url=https://data.census.gov/profile/West_Point_CDP,_New_York?g=160XX00US3680747#families-and-living-arrangements |access-date=July 13, 2023 |website=data.census.gov |archive-date=July 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230713040618/https://data.census.gov/profile/West_Point_CDP,_New_York?g=160XX00US3680747#families-and-living-arrangements |url-status=live}} The average household size was 3.79. The median income for a household in the CDP was $121,219.

About 2.3% of the population is below the poverty line.

{{Main|West Point Mint}}

In 1937, the West Point Bullion Depository was constructed and in 1938 opened to store silver bullion.{{Cite web |title=History of the U.S. Mint |url=https://www.usmint.gov/learn/history/overview |website=United States Mint |date=April 3, 2018 |access-date=July 11, 2023 |archive-date=July 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705210901/https://www.usmint.gov/learn/history/overview |url-status=live}} In 1988, it became the West Point Mint, as a branch of the United States Mint{{cite web |title=The United States Mint at West Point |url=https://www.usmint.gov/kids/coinnews/mintfacilities/swf/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161218211928/https://www.usmint.gov/kids/coinNews/mintFacilities/swf/ |archive-date=December 18, 2016 |access-date=August 23, 2017 |website=usmint.gov}} and gained official status as a branch of the United States Mint on March 31 of that year.{{cite web |title=The West Point Mint Facility |url=http://www.goldcoinstrader.net/the-west-point-mint-facility/ |access-date=January 19, 2013 |publisher=Gold Coins Trader |archive-date=March 31, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331180759/http://www.goldcoinstrader.net/the-west-point-mint-facility/ |url-status=dead}} The West Point Mint has a deep storage of 54,067,331.379 fine troy ounces of gold.{{Cite web |url=https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/status-report-government-gold-reserve/ |title=U.S. Treasury-Owned Gold | U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data |website=fiscaldata.treasury.gov |access-date=July 11, 2023 |archive-date=June 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602175348/https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/status-report-government-gold-reserve/ |url-status=live}} It sits on a {{convert|4|acre|ha|adj=on}} parcel of land.{{cite web |last=Daddio |first=William F. |date=May 28, 1987 |title=National Register of Historic Places nomination, U.S. Bullion Despository, West Point |url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=6614 |access-date=July 28, 2010 |publisher=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055300/http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=6614 |url-status=dead}}

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U.S. Route 9W, combined with NY Route 218 run north-south through West Point. New York Route 293 also runs northeast-southwest through the post. Running through the lower portion of the town is U.S. Route 6, combined with the upper extent of the Palisades Interstate Parkway.

The New York Central Railroad well into the 1950s operated several passenger trains a day on the West Shore Railroad through the academy's Gothic style station; both the limited stop trains bound for Albany and the local trains to Newburgh and Kingston made stops at the station. Service finally ended in 1958.'Official Guide of the Railways,' December 1954, New York Central section, Table 80{{cite web |url=http://nyc.railfan.net/ws-jk.html |title=Comments On The West Shore from James Knecht |website=Nyc.railfan.net |access-date=January 19, 2018 |archive-date=September 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912001411/http://nyc.railfan.net/ws-jk.html |url-status=live}}{{cite journal |date=August 1949 |title=New York Central Railroad, Table 80 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=82 |issue=3}}

File:VIEW OF RAILROAD STATION, LOOKING NORTH - U. S. Military Academy, West Shore Railroad Passenger Station, West Point, Orange County, NY HABS NY,36-WEPO,1-29-1.tif|View of the West Shore Railroad station, looking north (ca. 1980)

File:VIEW OF RAILROAD STATION, LOOKING SOUTH - U. S. Military Academy, West Shore Railroad Passenger Station, West Point, Orange County, NY HABS NY,36-WEPO,1-29-2.tif|View of station, looking south (ca. 1980)

File:INTERIOR VIEW, LOOKING SOUTH - U. S. Military Academy, West Shore Railroad Passenger Station, West Point, Orange County, NY HABS NY,36-WEPO,1-29-4.tif|Station interior

File:DETAIL OF DOORWAY, EAST SIDE - U. S. Military Academy, West Shore Railroad Passenger Station, West Point, Orange County, NY HABS NY,36-WEPO,1-29-3.tif|Entry door, trackside view

Highland Falls-Fort Montgomery Central School District is the local school district.{{cite web |url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st36_ny/schooldistrict_maps/c36071_orange/DC20SD_C36071.pdf |title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Orange County, NY |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=July 4, 2022 |archive-date=May 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522025004/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st36_ny/schooldistrict_maps/c36071_orange/DC20SD_C36071.pdf |url-status=live}} James I. O'Neill High School is its high school.

The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) maintains elementary and middle schools for children of military personnel on-post at USMA,{{cite web |url=https://www.dodea.edu/Americas/midAtlantic/WestPoint/index.cfm |title=West Point Community |publisher=Department of Defense Education Activity |access-date=July 4, 2022 |archive-date=July 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705202204/https://www.dodea.edu/Americas/midAtlantic/WestPoint/index.cfm |url-status=live}} - [https://www.dodea.edu/westpointes/index.cfm Elementary site] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706125906/https://www.dodea.edu/WestPointES/index.cfm |date=July 6, 2022 }} and [https://www.dodea.edu/westpointMS/index.cfm Middle site] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705235526/https://www.dodea.edu/westpointms/index.cfm |date=July 5, 2022 }} but sends high school aged students who are dependents of on-base military personnel to O'Neill.{{cite web |last=Wang |first=Helu |url=https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/local/2021/09/27/could-west-point-students-and-funding-leave-highland-falls-schools/5833716001/ |title=Could Highland Falls lose its West Point students? |newspaper=Times Herald-Record |date=September 27, 2021 |access-date=July 5, 2022 |archive-date=July 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705214340/https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/local/2021/09/27/could-west-point-students-and-funding-leave-highland-falls-schools/5833716001/ |url-status=live}} In March 2022 USMA's contract with O'Neill was renewed.{{cite web |last=Randall |first=Mike |url=https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/2022/03/21/highland-falls-continue-educating-west-point-high-school-students/7095734001/ |title=Highland Falls' contract to educate West Point high school students is renewed |newspaper=Times Herald-Record |date=March 21, 2022 |access-date=July 5, 2022 |archive-date=September 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923030308/https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/2022/03/21/highland-falls-continue-educating-west-point-high-school-students/7095734001/ |url-status=live}}

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