Located roughly 60 miles (97 km) northwest of New York City, the town of Montgomery is an historical and cultural hub of the Hudson Valley region and has been a steadily growing outer-ring commuter suburb, in the last 30 years, within the New York metropolitan area.

The town was named in the honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 at the Battle of Quebec.

The towns of Wallkill, Hamptonburgh and New Windsor, from west to east, border on the south.

There are few significant year-round settlements outside of the villages; there is a summer colony around Lake Osiris in the northern section of town.

Fox Hill Bruderhof is located on the southern edge of Walden and has about 250 residents who work in their furniture factory[3] and the Plough Publishing House.

[4] The town's topography is generally level and low, except along parts of its eastern and western boundaries, reflecting the passage of the Wallkill River through it from north to west.

There are a few exceptions: the business parks along Bracken, Neelytown and Stone Castle roads and NY 208, several of the Valley Central schools, the large Shop Rite plaza on Goodwill Road and Orange County Airport.

[5] The Wallkill River is the town's major watercourse, flowing through it from south to north past both the villages Montgomery and Walden, also partially serving as its border with Hamptonburgh.

The Muddy Kill, located entirely within the town, drains the area below the Comfort Hills in west central Montgomery.

The highest point in the town is the U.S. Geological Survey's Garrison benchmark at a corner of the Ulster County line on Kings Hill, at 820 feet (250 m) above sea level; this is also the highest point in the neighboring Town of Newburgh as well.

The lowest elevation is 240 feet (73 m), where the Wallkill River flows across the northern town and county line.

A ll officials serve four-year terms except the supervisor, who is elected every two years.

[citation needed] Representation in the state legislature is split between Republicans and Democrats in the town of Montgomery.