Tonawanda

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
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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 .

Shopping center
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was a located north of at the western edge of the in , , United States. The name came from its location on Niagara Falls Boulevard, which divides Amherst from the Town of Tonawanda. is situated 2½ miles east of Tonawanda.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Buffalo and Amherst.

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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. As of the 2020 census, had a population of 30,496. It is part of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan 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”
  • Tuscarora: “Tahnawáteh”
  • Ukrainian: “Тонаванда”
  • Urdu: “ٹوناوانڈا (ٹاؤن)، نیویارک”
  • Urdu: “ٹوناوانڈا، نیویارک”
  • Volapük: “Tonawanda”
  • “Tonawanda”

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