Westchester County

Westchester County is a county located in the US state of New York. It was founded in 1683 and has a land area of 500 square miles and an average population of approximately 950,000 people.

In speculative fiction, Westchester County is where the fictional town of Salem Center is located, which is home to the superhero team, the X-Men, who live and work out of the mansion home of the founder, Professor Charles Xavier and 1407 Graymalkin Lane. Professor Xavier rennovated his family's home into a school designed to train mutants dubbed Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.