Dunkirk, New York
Dunkirk, New York Aerial view of Dunkirk, facing north over Lake Erie Aerial view of Dunkirk, facing north over Lake Erie Dunkirk is positioned in New York Dunkirk - Dunkirk Location of Dunkirk in New York State New York Dunkirk is a town/city in Chautauqua County, New York, in the United States.
It was officially incorporated in 1880, though it was first settled around 1805. The populace was 12,563 as of the 2010 census, with an estimated populace of 12,328 in 2013. Dunkirk is bordered on the north by Lake Erie.
It shares a border with the village of Fredonia to the south, and with the town of Dunkirk to the east and west.
Dunkirk is the westernmost town/city in the state of New York. The Iroquoian languages-speaking Erie citizens occupied this region of the forested, lakefront along the southern shore of Lake Erie well into the 1600s, when Europeans, mostly French, started trading around the Great Lakes.
They were pushed out by the Seneca citizens , one of the Five Nations of the powerful Iroquois League, based here and further east in New York. The European-American demarcation and settlement of Chadwick Bay and subsequent naming of Dunkirk - after Dunkirk in France - began in earnest in 1826. The Dunkirk Lighthouse at Point Gratiot was assembled soon after and still stands.
Dunkirk served as a minor barns core and steamship port on Lake Erie into the early 1900s.
Dunkirk lies on the southeastern shore of Lake Erie and is 45 miles (72 km) southwest of Buffalo.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.6 square miles (11.8 km2), of which 4.5 square miles (11.7 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 1.10%, is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 12,563 citizens , 5,477 homeholds, and 3,690 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 65.70% White, 5.1% Black or African American, 0.52% Native American, 0.50 Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 9.14% from other competitions, and 1.8% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.3% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 26.5% from 25 to 44, 21.5% from 45 to 64, and 17.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
The town/city of Dunkirk has its own law enforcement under the leadership of Police Chief David Ortolano.
NRG Energy Power plant along Lake Erie in Dunkirk Dunkirk has a split paid and volunteer fire department under the leadership of Fire Chief Mike Edwards.
There are three stations positioned throughout the city.
As of 2011, Dunkirk Fire started handling 90 percent of EMS transports and billing accordingly.
In recent years, Dunkirk Fire's dispatching consolidated with the county dispatch center in Mayville but still maintains its FCC ID of KED 653.
Alstar Ambulance has its north county satellite station on Monroe Street in Dunkirk just southwest of NY 60.
A branch of Jamestown Community College is in Dunkirk.
Dunkirk High School, home of the Marauders, is part of the enhance Dunkirk City School District.
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The Chautauqua County-Dunkirk Airport (DKK), positioned in the town of Dunkirk, provides both training facilities and charter services. Railroad service in Dunkirk is provided by CSX Transportation (via the Buffalo-Cleveland-Willard (Ohio)-Chicago Main Line) and Norfolk Southern Railway (Buffalo-Cleveland-Fort Wayne-Chicago Main Line).
The Lake Shore Limited daily Amtrak train passes through the city, but it does not stop in it.
In the late 1990s the rail carrier considered adding the town/city as a stop between Buffalo and Erie.
Dunkirk was listed as a stop with service "to commence on a date to be announced" on a several timetables, but the stop was never added. The New York State Thruway (Interstate 90) passes through the southern end of the city, with access from Exit 59 (NY Route 60) just east of the town/city limits.
New York State Route 5 runs through the center of the city, dominant northeast 9 miles (14 km) to Silver Creek and southwest 18 miles (29 km) to Westfield.
WDOE AM airways broadcast in Dunkirk, co-owned with Fredonia FM sister station, WBKX.
Climate data for Dunkirk, New York (Dunkirk Chautauqua Airport) 1981 2010, extremes 1945 present Thomas Horan, a Medal of Honor Recipient at the battle of Gettysburg (1863) amid the Civil War, was born in Dunkirk in 1839 and died 1902.
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