Allegany County (New York)

Allegany County is in the Southern Tier of New York state.

42°15′0″N 78°3′0″W

Map of Allegany County (New York)

• 42.2232-78.03461 Belmont — the county seat
• 42.2547-77.79042 Alfred — home of Alfred State College, one of the state university system's highest-regarded technical schools, as well as the smaller, private Alfred University
• 42.3061-78.0163 Angelica — antique shopping galore in the "Town Where History Lives"
• 42.0667-78.16764 Bolivar — 19th-century oil boomtown that was briefly the wealthiest municipality in the U.S. per capita, now home to the Pioneer Oil Museum
• 42.2173-78.27565 Cuba — no longer the "Cheese Capital of the World", but still famous for locally produced cheeses and other dairy products
• 42.4249-78.1556 Houghton — another college town, this charming village is the home of Houghton College
• 42.3923-78.25357 Rushford — vacation cottages aplenty on the shore of Rushford Lake
• 42.1212-77.94688 Wellsville — the largest village in Allegany County (population about 4,500), named not for the oil wells that flourished here in the 19th century but for a prominent local citizen