Nanuet is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Clarkstown, New York, United States.

[2] The opening of the New York State Thruway (Interstate 87/287), the Tappan Zee Bridge, and the Palisades Interstate Parkway in the mid-1950s[3] helped usher in decades of population growth and real estate development, including the construction of the Nanuet Mall and local shopping centers.

[4] In 2011, CNN Money ranked Nanuet 76 on its annual 100 Best Places to Live list,[5] citing its relatively inexpensive housing and the recreation and shopping opportunities in the area.

[10] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 5.4 square miles (14 km2), all land.

The topography is a result of the massive glaciation of the last ice age, and as such the soil is extremely rocky and the surface shows glacial erratic boulders.

The glacial ice scraped off and carried with it rocks and minerals from as far north as Canada, depositing them in Nanuet in particular and southern New York in general.

This is the hypothesized source of the manganese-rich parvo-mangano-edenite minerals, as well as the placer ore for gold panning within Nauraushaun Brook.

One prominent surface feature, a Hopewell Indian burial mound dating to 325 AD, is located near Nauraushaun Brook at the western edge of the Manhattan Woods Golf Club in West Nyack.

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