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Port Jervis, is a United States city in Orange County, New York. The population was 8,860 at the 2000 census.

The city of Port Jervis neighbors the point where the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania adjoin. Port Jervis was a port on the Delaware and Hudson Canal and is also known as the "River City." The town is named in honor of John B. Jervis, the chief engineer on the canal.

The communities of Germantown (which is now actually Port Jervis' West End) and Huguenot are adjacent to Port Jervis. The towns of Montague, New Jersey and Matamoras, Pennsylvania face the city across the respective state borders. The Orange County Town of Deerpark is to the north.

The town is the last stop on the 95-mile-long (151 km) commuter railroad line from Hoboken, New Jersey and New York City that is contracted to NJ Transit by the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company (the line itself continues on to Binghamton, but passenger service beyond Port Jervis was discontinued in 1971).

The city is on the north bank of the Delaware River. The Neversink, the Delaware's largest tributary, also joins it at this point. The two sometimes flood in periods of heavy rainfall. Near the point where the two rivers merge, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey come together.

Port Jervis is located at 41.375459, -74.688794.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.0 km² (2.7 mi²). 6.6 km² (2.5 mi²) of it is land and 0.5 km² (0.2 mi²) of it (6.64%) is water.

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