In what U.S. state can you find the city named Sleepy Hollow?

Sleepy Hollow is in New York, specifically the village of Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County. It lies along the eastern bank of the Hudson River, roughly 30 miles north of New York City.

The village became famous through Washington Irving’s 1820 story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Irving’s fictional setting was inspired by the real Hudson Valley landscape, and the area associated with the story includes nearby Tarrytown and the historic Old Dutch Church and cemetery.

Sleepy Hollow was not always called by that name. The community was known as North Tarrytown until 1997, when residents voted to adopt the literary name Sleepy Hollow. That change connected the modern municipality more directly with Irving’s famous tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman.

A small wording detail sometimes causes confusion: Sleepy Hollow is officially a village, not an incorporated city. That distinction does not change the state answer. The fictional hollow and the real village are both associated with New York’s Hudson Valley.