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We would like to provide the residents of  Port Jervis  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Port Jervis Home page. The Port Jervis Home page provides as much information as possible on Port Jervis. Knowing Port Jervis’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Port Jervis’s Home page, you will also find Port Jervis’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Port Jervis has a population of 8541. 50.4% of Port Jervis’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.6 are female. 39.3% of Port Jervis is married and 51.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $134,135, and the average rent is $940. Household median income in Port Jervis is $32,500, and the individual median income is $25,939. Port Jervis’s Ethnic is the following: White(79.4%), Hispanic(17.2%), Multiple(8.1%), Black(4.6%), Other(3.3%), Asian(2.6%), Native(2%).


Port Jervis is a city located at the confluence of the Neversink and Delaware rivers in western Orange County, New York, United States, north of the Delaware Water Gap. Its population was 8,775 at the 2020 census. The communities of Deerpark, Huguenot, Sparrowbush, and Greenville are adjacent to Port Jervis.


Matamoras, Pennsylvania, is across the river and connected by bridge. Montague Township, New Jersey, borders here. The Tri-States Monument, marking the tripoint between New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, lies at the southwestern corner of town. Port Jervis was part of early industrial history, a point for shipping coal to major markets to the southeast by canal and later by railroads.


Its residents had long-distance passenger service by railroad until 1970. The restructuring of railroads resulted in a decline in the city's business and economy.In the 21st century, from late spring to early fall, many thousands of travelers and tourists pass through Port Jervis on their way to enjoying rafting, kayaking, canoeing and other activities in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River and the surrounding area. Port Jervis is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown metropolitan area as well as the larger New York metropolitan area.


In August 2008, Port Jervis was named one of "Ten Coolest Small Towns" by Budget Travel magazine.


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