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Ontario, New York. Location in Wayne County and the state of New York. / 43.24222°N 77.29806°W / 43.24222; -77.29806. Ontario is a town in the northwest corner of Wayne County, New York, United States. The population was 9,778 at the 2000 census, and 10,136 at the 2010 census. The town is named after the Great Lake on its northern border.
Ontario County, New York. / 42.85°N 77.29°W / 42.85; -77.29. Ontario County is a county in the U.S. State of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 112,458. [ 1] The county seat is Canandaigua. [ 2] The county is part of the Finger Lakes region of the state. Ontario County is part of the Rochester, NY Metropolitan ...
To the south, it is bordered by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Almost all of Ontario's 2,700 km (1,700 mi) border with the United States follows rivers and lakes: from the westerly Lake of the Woods, eastward along the major rivers and lakes of the Great Lakes/Saint Lawrence River ...
Fort Ontario was one of several forts erected by the British to protect the area around the east end of Lake Ontario. The original Fort Ontario was erected in 1755, during the French and Indian War, in order to bolster defenses already in place at Fort Oswego on the opposite side of the river. At that time its name was the "Fort of the Six ...
The New York, Ontario and Western Railway, commonly known as the O&W or NYO&W, was a regional railroad founded in 1868. The last train ran from Norwich, New York, to Middletown, New York, in 1957, after which it was ordered liquidated by a U.S. bankruptcy judge. It was the first Class I U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
FIPS code. 36-55002 [2] GNIS feature ID. 2631644 [3] Ontario is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Ontario, Wayne County, New York, United States. The CDP extends into land surrounding the hamlet, including the east half of the hamlet of Ontario Center. The population of the CDP was 2,160 at the 2010 census.
On Rte. 14 About 1½ Miles S. Of Geneva. Geneva, Town Of, New York. Bay 1810–1850 Ontario Glass Manufactory Blowers Of Window Glass Village Of 500 Inhabitants. 16. SITE OF KANADESAGA. On Co. Rd. To Seneca Castle About 1/4 Mile West Of Geneva. Geneva, Town Of, New York.
Geneva is a city in Ontario and Seneca counties in the U.S. state of New York. It is at the northern end of Seneca Lake; all land portions of the city are within Ontario County; the water portions are in Seneca County. The population was 13,261 at the 2010 census. [ 2] The city is supposedly named after the city and canton of Geneva in ...