Porter
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.- Type: Municipality with 6,510 residents
- Description: town in Niagara County, New York, United States
- Also known as: “Porter, New York” and “Porter, NY”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Basilica of The National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima.
Basilica of The National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima
Church
Photo: Cfpops, Public domain.
The Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima is a Modernist minor basilica and US national shrine of the Roman Catholic Church, honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Fatima, the patroness of the United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Youngstown and Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Youngstown
Photo: Florence88, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Youngstown is the northwesternmost community in the state of New York. Its strategic location at the mouth of the Niagara River, on the border with Canada, made it a prime site for fortifications, the last of which has stood just north of the village since 1726.
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Niagara-on-the-Lake is a town of 19,000 people in the Niagara Region of Ontario. It sits on the shore of Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Niagara River.
Ransomville
Village
Ransomville is a hamlet located in the Town of Porter in Niagara County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, Ransomville had a population of 1,316.
Porter
- Categories: town in the United States, town of New York, and locality
- Location: Town of Porter, Niagara County, Niagara Frontier, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
43.2536° or 43° 15′ 13″ northLongitude
-78.9689° or 78° 58′ 8″ westPopulation
6,510Open location code
87M3723J+CCOpenStreetMap ID
node 9918106192OpenStreetMap feature
place=municipalityWikidata ID
Q3708700
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Uzbek—“Porter” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Porter”
- Chechen: “Портер”
- Chinese: “波特”
- Chinese: “波特镇”
- French: “Porter”
- German: “Porter”
- Haitian: “Porter, New York”
- Haitian: “Porter”
- Hungarian: “Porter”
- Italian: “Porter”
- Japanese: “ポーター”
- Mazanderani: “پورتر (نیویورک)”
- Mazanderani: “پورتر”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Porter”
- Norwegian: “Porter”
- Polish: “Porter”
- Spanish: “Porter”
- Tatar: “Портер”
- Turkish: “Porter”
- Ukrainian: “Портер”
- Urdu: “پورٹر، نیو یارک”
- Uzbek: “Porter, New York”
- Uzbek: “Porter”
- Uzbek: “Портер”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Porter Center and Harrison Grove.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Shear Airport and National Guard Youngstown Training Site.
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