Lackawanna, New York

Lackawanna
Lackawanna
City
	Lackawanna's Orange City Hall
	Location of Lackawanna in Erie County and New York
	Lackawanna
	Coordinates: 42°49′10″N 78°49′32″W / 42.81944°N 78.82556°W
Country	United States
State	New York
County	Erie
Named for	Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Government
• Type	Mayor-Council
• Mayor	Annette Iafallo (D)
• City Council	Members' List
Area
• City	6.60 sq mi (17.09 km2)
• Land	6.55 sq mi (16.96 km2)
• Water	0.05 sq mi (0.13 km2)
Elevation	623 ft (190 m)
Population (2020)
• City	19,949
• Rank	NY: 35th (2010)
• Density	3,046.58/sq mi (1,176.36/km2)
• Metro	1,254,066
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Code	14218
Area code	716
FIPS code	36-029-40189
GNIS feature ID	0954863
Website	www.lackawannany.gov

Lackawanna is a city in Erie County, New York, United States, just south of the city of Buffalo in western New York State. The population was 19,949 at the 2020 census.^[2] It is one of the fastest-growing cities in New York, growing in population by 10% from 2010 to 2020. It is part of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area. The city of Lackawanna is in the western part of Erie County.

The town's name derives from the Lackawanna Steel Company, which owned the steel plant around which the city developed.^[3] During the early 20th century, the Lackawanna steel plant was the largest in the world. The word "Lackawanna" refers to the steel company's original location in the river valley of the same name, in eastern Pennsylvania. That place name, in turn, might come from Lenape lèkaohane, meaning "sandy stream", or lechauhanne, [lɛxaohánɛk], meaning "forks of the river".^[4]

^ "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
^ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Lackawanna city, New York". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved February 22, 2016. ^{[dead link]}
^ "History of the City of Lackawanna". Welcome to the City of Lackawanna Official Website. Archived from the original on March 9, 2009. Retrieved July 3, 2009.
^ Bright, William (2004). Native American Placenames of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 247–248. Retrieved February 1, 2023.

[TigerWebMapServer-1] "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 20, 2022.

[Census_2020-2] "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Lackawanna city, New York". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved February 22, 2016. ^{[dead link]}

[History-3] "History of the City of Lackawanna". Welcome to the City of Lackawanna Official Website. Archived from the original on March 9, 2009. Retrieved July 3, 2009.

[4] Bright, William (2004). Native American Placenames of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 247–248. Retrieved February 1, 2023.

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