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Tonawanda is the name of both a city in the of Erie County, , and the unincorporated suburban township that surrounds it. The incorporated village of Kenmore also makes up part of the Town of Tonawanda.
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  • Type: Town with 72,900 residents
  • Description: town in Erie County, New York, United States
  • Also known as: “Tonawanda, New York”, “Tonawanda, NY”, and “Town of Tonawanda”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tonawanda Municipal Building and Kenmore West Senior High School.

Town hall
Photo: Pubdog, Public domain.
is a historic municipal building located at in . It was designed by the noted Buffalo architecture firm Green and James and built in 1936 with funds provide by the Works Progress Administration.

School
is one of two public high schools in the Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda School District. The other is .

School
St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute, founded in 1861, is an independent Roman Catholic college preparatory school for boys run by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Tonawanda, New York.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Buffalo and Amherst.

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Perhaps doesn't have the immediate cachet of other parts of the city. The clothing boutiques on Hertel stock fashions that may not be as up-to-the-minute as the ones in the .

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is a town in , , United States. It is a suburb of . As of 2020, the town had a total population of 129,595. This represents an increase from 122,366 as reported in the 2010 census.

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is a city in , United States. Its population was 31,568 at the 2010 census. It is part of the – metropolitan statistical area.

Tonawanda

Latitude
42.9808° or 42° 58′ 51″ north
Longitude
-78.8652° or 78° 51′ 55″ west
Population
72,900
Elevation
614 feet (187 metres)
Open location code
87J3X4JM+8W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9432577221
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5141182
Wiki­data ID
Q960066
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Volapük—“Tonawanda” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Tonawanda”
  • Chinese: “Tonawanda”
  • Chinese: “托纳万达镇”
  • Dutch: “Tonawanda”
  • French: “Tonawanda”
  • German: “Tonawanda”
  • Hungarian: “Tonawanda”
  • Italian: “Tonawanda”
  • Japanese: “トナワンダ町”
  • Mazanderani: “توناواندا تاؤن (نیویورک)”
  • Mazanderani: “توناواندا تاؤن”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tonawanda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tonawanda”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Tonawanda (wunsich schtadt)”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Tonawanda, Nei Yarrick”
  • Polish: “Tonawanda”
  • Russian: “Тонаванда”
  • Silesian: “Tonawanda (Nowy Jork)”
  • Silesian: “Tonawanda”
  • Spanish: “Tonawanda (pueblo), Nueva York”
  • Spanish: “Tonawanda”
  • Turkish: “Tonawanda”
  • Ukrainian: “Тонаванда”
  • Volapük: “Tonawanda”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tonawanda”. Photo: Pubdog, CC BY-SA 3.0.