Porter, New York
| Porter, New York | |
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 Location in Niagara County and the state of New York. |
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| Coordinates: 43°14′59″N 78°59′53″W / 43.24972°N 78.99806°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Niagara |
| Government | |
| • Type | Town Council |
| • Town Supervisor | Merton K. Wiepert (R) |
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| Area | |
| • Total | 37.7 sq mi (97.8 km2) |
| • Land | 33.2 sq mi (86.0 km2) |
| • Water | 4.5 sq mi (11.7 km2) |
| Elevation | 305 ft (93 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 6,771 |
| • Density | 204.8/sq mi (79.1/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| FIPS code | 36-59267 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0979386 |
Porter is a town in Niagara County, New York, United States. The population was 6,771 at the 2010 census. The town was named after Judge Augustus Porter.
The Town of Porter lies in the northwest corner of Niagara County and is north of the City of Niagara Falls.
for thousands of years inhabited by varying cultures of indigenous peoples, at the time of European encounter, this was territory of the powerful Iroquois Confederacy, based in present-day New York state.
Permanent European-American settlement did not take place until after the American Revolution, about 1801, after most of the Iroquois had been forced to cede their lands to New York and had emigrated to Upper Canada.
The Town of Porter was created in 1812 from the Town of Cambria, but further development was hindered by the War of 1812. The United States' war with Great Britain first included an embargo of trade with Canada, disrupting the local economy. Warfare along the border continued until 1814.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 37.7 square miles (98 km2), of which, 33.2 square miles (86 km2) of it is land and 4.5 square miles (12 km2) of it (12.00%) is water.
The northern boundary of the town is Lake Ontario and the Western boundary is the Niagara River, which is the international boundary between the United States and Ontario, Canada.
As of the census of 2000, there were 6,920 people, 2,616 households, and 1,935 families residing in the town. The population density was 208.3 people per square mile (80.5/km²). There were 2,846 housing units at an average density of 85.7 per square mile (33.1/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 97.66% White, 0.48% African American, 0.77% Native American, 0.46% Asian, 0.12% from other races, and 0.52% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.66% of the population.
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