Ruby, New York

Ruby is a hamlet (and census-designated place)[2] in Ulster County, New York, United States. The community is 6.3 miles (10.1 km) north of Kingston. Ruby has a post office with ZIP code 12475, which opened on June 2, 1896.[3][4]

Ruby, New York
Hamlet and CDP
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Coordinates: 42°01′05″N 74°00′53″W
Country	United States
State	New York
County	Ulster
Elevation	312 ft (95 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	12475
Area code(s)	845
GNIS feature ID	963066[1]

One time major league baseball player Dutch Schirick was born in Ruby on June 15, 1890. In 1921 he organized the semi-professional Kingston Colonels team. Schirick later went on to become a Supreme Court judge in Kingston.[5]

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Wendelinus was founded as a mission station of St. Peter's in Rondoubt. By 1914, it had become a mission of St. Ann's in Sawkill. At that time, the congregation, of English and German descent, numbered about 60.[6]

References

1. "Ruby". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
2. "State of New York Census Designated Places - Current/BAS20 - Data as of January 1, 2019". tigerweb.geo.census.gov. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
3. United States Postal Service. "USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code". Retrieved September 4, 2017.
4. "Postmaster Finder - Post Offices by ZIP Code". United States Postal Service. Retrieved September 4, 2017.
5. Tiano, Charles J. “Tiano’s Topics”, Kingston Daily Freeman, 10 December 1968, p. 19
6. Lafort, Remigius. The Catholic Church in the United States of America, Catholic editing Company, 1914, p. 433 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.