Plattsburgh, New York (usa)

Plattsburgh, New York

Plattsburgh, New York ranks 6,176th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Lancaster, New Hampshire, Dover, and Zocca. Memorable people born in Plattsburgh, New York include Jean Arthur, Michael P. Anderson, and Karen Wetterhahn. Memorable people who died in Plattsburgh, New York include Alan Washbond, and Rockwell Kent. Plattsburgh, New York has been the birth place of many actors, and astronauts and the death place of many athletes, and painters. Plattsburgh, New York is located in United States.

Plattsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Clinton County, New York, United States, situated on the north-western shore of Lake Champlain. The population was 19,841 at the 2020 census. The population of the surrounding Town of Plattsburgh was 11,886 as of the 2020 census, making the combined population of Plattsburgh to be 31,727. Plattsburgh lies just to the northeast of Adirondack Park, immediately outside of the park boundaries. It is the second largest community in the North Country region, and serves as the main commercial hub for the sparsely populated northern Adirondack Mountains. The land around Plattsburgh was previously inhabited by the Iroquois, Western Abenaki, Mohican, and Mohawk people. Samuel de Champlain was the first ever recorded European that sailed into Champlain Valley and later claimed the region as a part of New France in 1609. Read more on Wikipedia