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New York Counties
 Click Image to Enlarge New York CountiesThere are 62 counties in the State of New York. The first twelve counties in New York were created immediately after the British annexation of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, although two of these counties have since been abolished. The most recent county formation in New York was in 1912, when Bronx County was created from the portions of New York City that had been annexed from Westchester County. New York's counties are named for a variety of Native American words, British provinces, cities, and royalty, early American statesmen and generals, and state politicians. |
Chemung County, New YorkChemung County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County NameDerived from the name of the Delaware Indian village signifying "big horn" Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts County HistoryChemung County is part of New York's southern tier. It borders Pennsylvania on the south, Steuben county on the west, and Schuyler County on the north. On the east is its mother county, Tioga, from which it was separated in 1836. The first towns were Chemung which name remains as the county, a town and a village, and Newtown, which became Elmira in 1808. Both of these were towns in the mother Tioga County, and became the source of the towns that exist now in Chemung. In 1789, Montgomery County was reduced in size by the splitting off of Ontario County. The actual area split off from
Montgomery County was much larger than the present county, also including the present Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua,
Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, Steuben, Wyoming, Yates, and part of Schuyler and Wayne Counties. The area comprising Chemung County was located along the Forbidden Trail connecting all the major Native American villages from the Susquehanna River through the Chemung Valley and westward to Ohio. Guarded by the Senecas, the trail was forbidden to whites and enemy tribes. The first European to successfully navigate this path was a Moravian missionary who traveled through the area in 1767. Full History at NYSAC GeographyChemung County is in the southwestern part of New York State, along the Pennsylvania border, in a part of New
York called the Southern Tier and is also part of the Finger Lakes Region. Neighboring Counties:
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The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define
the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local.
And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions,
reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history. Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally." |
