Seneca Falls
Seneca Falls is a town in the Finger Lakes region of New York state. The birthplace of the women's rights movement in the 19th century, Seneca Falls is also widely believed to be the inspiration for the town of Bedford Falls in Frank Capra's holiday classic, It's A Wonderful Life.
Photo: RochesterNY, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 8,850 residents
- Description: town in Seneca County, New York, United States of America
- Also known as: “0G7”, “Seneca Falls (Nova York)”, “Seneca Falls (Nueva York)”, “Seneca Falls (pueblo)”, “Seneca Falls town, New York”, “Seneca Falls, New York”, “Seneca Falls, Nova York”, “Seneca Falls, NY”, “Town of Seneca Falls”, “Σένεκα Φολς, Νέα Υόρκη”, “세네카 폴스”, “세니카폴스”, “세니커 폴스”, “塞內卡瀑布市”, “塞内卡瀑布城”, and “紐約塞內卡福爾斯”
- Postal code: 13148
Places of Interest
Highlights: Elizabeth Cady Stanton House and United States Post Office.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton House
Historic building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Seneca Falls
- Categories: town in the United States, town of New York, and locality
- Location: Seneca, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.9107° or 42° 54′ 39″ north
Longitude
-76.7968° or 76° 47′ 48″ west
Population
8,850
Elevation
430 feet (131 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US SFS
Open location code
87J5W663+77
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Seneca Falls” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Seneca Falls”
- Bulgarian: “Сенека Фолс”
- Catalan: “Seneca Falls”
- Chechen: “Сенека-Фоллс”
- Chinese: “塞尼卡福爾斯”
- Chinese: “色內加瀑布市”
- Chinese: “色内加瀑布市”
- Dagbani: “Seneca Falls”
- Dutch: “Seneca Falls”
- French: “Seneca Falls”
- Galician: “Seneca Falls”
- German: “Seneca Falls”
- Greek: “Σένεκα Φολς”
- Haitian: “Seneca Falls, New York”
- Haitian: “Seneca Falls”
- Hebrew: “סנקה פולס”
- Hungarian: “Seneca Falls”
- Italian: “Seneca Falls”
- Japanese: “セネカ・フォールズ”
- Japanese: “セネカフォールズ”
- Korean: “세니커폴스”
- Malay: “Seneca Falls, New York”
- Mazanderani: “سنکا فالز (نیویورک)”
- Mazanderani: “سنکا فالز”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Seneca Falls”
- Norwegian: “Seneca Falls”
- Persian: “سنکا فالز”
- Polish: “Seneca Falls”
- Serbian: “Сенека Фолс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Seneca Falls, New York”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Seneca Falls”
- Slovenian: “Seneca Falls”
- South Azerbaijani: “سنکا فالس، نیویورک”
- Spanish: “Seneca Falls”
- Tatar: “Сенека-Фоллс”
- Turkish: “Seneca Falls”
- Ukrainian: “Сенека-Фоллс”
- Urdu: “سنیکا فالز”
- Urdu: “سینیکا فالز، نیو یارک”
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