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Chenango County, New York
Chenango County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Norwich
Year Organized: 1798
Square Miles: 894
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Court House: 5 Court Street
County Office Building
Norwich, NY 13815-1602
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
from the Onondaga Indian word meaning "large bull-thistle"
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Chenango County, New York was created March 15, 1798. Chenango County was organized from Herkimer and Tioga counties.
It had ten townships and it covered an area nearly twice as large as it does today. The original towns were Cazenovia,
Sangersfield, Hamilton, Deruyter, Sherburne, Brookfield, Norwich, Greene, Oxford and Jericho. The county seat is
Norwich.
The original inhabitants of Chenango County were nomadic Native Americans of the Archaic Period (6000 BC – 700
BC) or earlier, who fished along the Chenango River re-using campsites over hundreds of years. Archaeologists have
excavated a small village on the White Site near Norwich which has been carbon dated approximately AD 950. This site
is one of the largest and best examples of the Hunter’s Home Phase of Indian occupation in the state. When European
settlers arrived, the Chenango Valley had long been the traditional hunting and fishing grounds of the Oneida
Iroquois. Full History at NYSAC
Geography
Chenango County is in the approximate center of the state, west of Albany, north of Binghamton, and southeast of
Syracuse. The county is considered to be in the Southern Tier region of New York State.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 899 square miles (2,328 kmē), of which, 894
square miles (2,316 kmē) of it is land and 4 square miles (11 kmē) of it (0.48%) is water.
The Chenango River, a tributary of the Susquehanna River flows southward through the county.
Neighboring Counties:
- Madison County, New York - north
- Otsego County, New York - northeast
- Delaware County, New York - southeast
- Broome County, New York - south
- Cortland County, New York - west
Cities and Towns:
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- Afton |
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- Bainbridge |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Columbus |
town |
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- Coventry |
town |
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- Earlville |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Georgetown |
town |
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- German |
town |
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- Greene |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Guilford |
town |
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- Lebanon |
town |
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- McDonough |
town |
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- New Berlin |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- North Norwich |
town |
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- Norwich
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Otselic |
town |
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- Oxford |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Pharsalia |
town |
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- Pitcher |
town |
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- Pittsfield |
town |
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- Plymouth |
town |
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- Preston |
town |
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- Sherburne |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Smithville |
town |
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- Smyrna |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Triangle |
town |
County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our 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,
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