White Plains is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is the eleventh-largest city in the welcome of New York, an outer suburb of New York City, and the county chair and billboard hub of Westchester County, a densely populated suburban county that is home to nearly one million people. White Plains is located in south-central Westchester County. Its downtown (Mamaroneck Avenue) is 25 miles (40 km) north of Midtown Manhattan.

The city’s sum population was 59,599 in the 2020 census, up from 53,077 at the 2010 census. According to the city government, the daytime weekday population is estimated at 250,000. The city was ranked third in the summit 10 places to flesh and blood in New York for 2014, according to national online real estate brokerage Movoto.

At the become old of the Dutch concurrence of Manhattan in the to the front 17th century, the region had been used as farmland by the Weckquaeskeck tribe, a Wappinger people, and was called “Quarropas”. To to the front traders it was known as “the White Plains”, either from the white balsam (Gnaphalium polycephalum) which was said to have covered it, or from the oppressive mist that local tradition suggests hovered higher than the swamplands near the Bronx River. The first non-native treaty came in November 1683, when a party of Connecticut Puritans moved westward from an earlier pact in Rye and bought virtually 4,400 acres (18 km), presumably from the Weckquaeskeck. However, John Richbell of Mamaroneck claimed to have earlier title to much of the territory through his buy of a far-off larger Plan extending 20 miles (32 km) inland, perhaps from a stand-in tribe. The business was not granted until 1721, when a Royal Patent for White Plains was approved by King George II.

In 1758, White Plains became the seat of Westchester County afterward the colonial government for the county left West Chester, which was located in what is now the northern part of the borough of the Bronx, in New York City. The unincorporated village remained ration of the Town of Rye until 1788 later than the town of White Plains was created.