Cochecton (/kəˈʃɛktən/) is a town located in west-central Sullivan County, New York, United States.

The name is derived from the Lenape word "cushetunk" meaning "place of red stone hills".

After a long dispute - the New York-New Jersey Line War - the final border was set further south, near Port Jervis.

Moved from its original site in the early 1990s, a local group of people banded together to save the station from destruction.

The local business Cochecton Mills, owned by the Nearing family, gave the group, called the "Cochecton Preservation Society", one year to dismantle the ancient building and get it off their property so that its business could continue.

In that time, the station was carefully and successfully moved roughly one mile upstream to a spot on NY Route 97, still resting along the former Erie Railroad.

[2] A conflicting, and probably outdated, interpretation appears in the writings of James Burbank, an amateur local historian who wrote in the 1950s that the word "Cushektunk" meant "low land" and "land of red rock" indicating the abundance of red mudstone throughout the area.

The town is also divided among six different telephone exchanges — Lake Huntington (845-932), Narrowsburg (845-252), White Lake (845-583), Jeffersonville (845-482), Callicoon (845-887) and even Galilee, Pennsylvania (570-224) — a highly unusual situation considering the town's small size and population.

As a result, Cochecton has a hemiboreal climate (Köppen Dfb), with mild-to-warm summers and cold winters.