Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 7119
Land area (2000): 3.794137 sq. miles (9.826769 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.299118 sq. miles (0.774712 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.093255 sq. miles (10.601481 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74166
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 43.011190 N, 78.877399 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 14150
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tonawanda
Housing Units (2000): 27175
Land area (2000): 17.367991 sq. miles (44.982887 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.560102 sq. miles (4.040646 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 18.928093 sq. miles (49.023533 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74183
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.985307 N, 78.852127 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 14150
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tonawanda
Wikipedia
Tonawanda may refer to:
- Lake Tonawanda, prehistoric glacial lake
- North Tonawanda, New York, a city in Niagara County, north across Tonawanda Creek from the City and Town
- Tonawanda (CDP), New York, consisting of the Town of Tonawanda less the Village of Kenmore
- Tonawanda (city), New York, officially City of Tonawanda, established 1904, bordered on three sides by the Town of Tonawanda
- Tonawanda (town), New York, officially Town of Tonawanda, established 1836, in Erie County north of Buffalo, New York
- Tonawanda Armory, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
- Tonawanda Band of Seneca, federally recognized tribe in New York state
- Tonawanda Creek, a tributary of the Niagara River and part of the Erie Canal
- Tonawanda Kardex Lumbermen, a defunct NFL team based in North Tonawanda
- Tonawanda Reservation, on Tonawanda Creek in Erie, Genesee, and Niagara counties
Usage examples of "tonawanda".
At eight the next morning they were seen driving from a hotel in Buffalo eastward to the Tonawanda Indian Reservation.
North Tonawanda and the brush began again, she caught herself watching for the marker along the river, where the river widened and she could see past the tip of Grand Island.
The 10:10 local stops at Cresthaven, Galesville, Tonawanda Junction, Selby and Farnhurst, but not at Indiana City, Lucasville and Colton, except on Sunday.
The 10:10 local stops at Cresthaven, Galesville, Tonawanda Junction, Selby, and Farnhurst, but not at Indiana City, Lucasville, and Colton, except on Sunday.
He dialed the phone -- a number with a 716 area code, Tonawanda, New York.
At such times John Reddy was cruising in his funkysexy Mercury in Cheektowaga, Tonawanda, Lockport or Buffalo, restless and looking for action.
The 10: 10 local stops at Cresthaven, Galesville, Tonawanda Junction, Selby and Farnhurst, but not at Indiana City, Lucasville and Colton, except on Sunday.
It was a little black mongrel with brown eyebrows, the kind that she had seen running around yapping on the Tonawanda reservation since she was a child, so she knew what it would do before it did.
Everybody around here knows that in 1838, when the state was kidnapping chiefs to force them to sign the land treaty, not one single chief from Tonawanda let himself be caught.
Cresthaven, Galesville, Tonawanda Junction, Selby and Farnhurst, but not at Indiana City, Lucasville and Colton, except on Sunday.
Seneca women met at Tonawanda one evening at dusk to sing the Ohgiwe, the Dance for the Dead.
Buffalo suburb of North Tonawanda, called and offered to come to his rescue.
Tom Potenza stood waiting for Nerese on the stoop of his building, a five-story walk-up wedged between the Dodi-Diana Smoke Shop and the Ship of Zion daycare center on Tonawanda Avenue.
And also all that certain other tract or parcel of land, situate, lying and being partly in said county of Erie and partly in the county of Genesee in said State, commonly called and known by the name of the Tonawanda Reservation, and containing by estimation twelve thousand eight hundred acres, be the same more or less: As the said several tracts of land have been heretofore reserved and are held and occupied by the Seneca Nation of Indians, or by individuals thereof, together with all and singular the rights, privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances to each and every of the said tracts or parcels of land belonging or appertaining.
We were in lower Willowsville, a no-man's-land it seemed to us, grassy vacant lots, a hulking railroad overpass, a used car dealer's and smudged-looking stucco buildings, row with cramped front yards--a neighborhood so different from the rest of our village it might have been in Cheektowaga, Tonawanda, or the gritty urban edge of Buffalo itself.