Wyoming County

Location

Southwest of Rochester

Crude map of towns and villages

Geographical Area

596 sq. miles (1.09% of New York State)

Population

43,424 (0.23% of New York State)

Warsaw

Arcade, Attica, Castile, Gainesville, Perry, Pike, Portageville, Silver Lake, Silver Springs, Warsaw, Wyoming (and a whole lot of hamlets)

Established in 1841 from Genesee County.

• Portageville is on the southern tip of Letchworth State Park
  

• Silver Lake State Park

• Wyoming was among the first places to develop a natural gas industry
  

• Wind turbines are installed in Wethersfield
  

• There is an abandoned military base
  

• The twenty-first president spent part of his childhood in Perry
  

• The Silver Lake Sea Serpent was a hoax
  

• Home of Mary Jemison, the White Woman of the Senecas
  

• There was some social unrest back in 1971

• http://www.wyomingco.net County government
  

• Wyoming County on Wikipedia
  

• http://www.wyomingcountyny.com Wyoming County Tourist Promotion Agency
  

• Chamber of Commerce
  

• Demogaphic data

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