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Pine Bush is a hamlet (and census-designated place) located in the Town of Crawford and adjacent to Shawangunk, New York, within Orange and adjacent to Ulster counties in the U.S. It is roughly coterminous with the 12566 ZIP code and 744 telephone exchange in the 845 area code. These both extend into adjacent regions of the Town of Shawangunk in Ulster County. (The Pine Bush Central School District takes in part of the Town of Mamakating in Sullivan County as well). The population was 1,751 at the 2020 census.

Pine Bush is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ–CT–PA Combined Statistical Area.

Pine Bush CDP overview:
Name:	Pine Bush CDP
LSAD Code:	57
LSAD Description:	CDP (suffix)
State:	New York
County:	Orange County
Elevation:	387 ft (118 m)
Total Area:	2.11 sq mi (5.46 km²)
Land Area:	2.11 sq mi (5.46 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.01 km²)
Total Population:	1,751
Population Density:	831.43/sq mi (320.98/km²)
ZIP code:	12566
Area code:	845
FIPS code:	3657980
GNISfeature ID:	0960421

Online Interactive Map

Pine Bush online map. Source: Basemap layers from Google Map, Open Street Map (OSM), Arcgisonline, Wmflabs. Boundary Data from Database of Global Administrative Areas.

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History

The community was one of the four early nineteenth century settlements in the jurisdiction of the town. It has previously been known as “Shawangunk,” “Crawford,” and “Bloomfield.” Another community named “Crawford” is located to the northwest in bordering Ulster County. This hamlet was an early terminus for a short line railroad, the Middletown & Crawford Railroad. This line was bought by the Erie railroad, which served the town until the 1970s.

As a result of reported unusual sightings during the mid-1980s, Pine Bush developed a reputation as the UFO capital of the world. This characterization was supported by Ellen Crystall’s book, Silent Invasion: The Shocking Discoveries of a UFO Researcher. The town has held an annual UFO festival for many years.

Pine Bush Road Map

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Geography

Pine Bush is located at 41°36′N 74°18′W / 41.600°N 74.300°W / 41.600; -74.300 (41.6088, -74.2987). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.4 km), all land.

The hamlet of Pine Bush is in Orange County and near the border of Ulster. The Pine Bush zip code, 12566, spills over into the Town of Shawangunk in Ulster County, but the Hamlet itself is in Orange County only. The Shawangunk Kill, a small river, marks this boundary. New York State Route 52 and New York State Route 302 intersect at this hamlet, which predates the highways.