Oswego (New York)
Oswego County
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Oswego is a small town in Oswego County in the U.S. state of New York and at the same time its administrative seat ( County Seat). Oswego is located directly on Lake Ontario, which is why it bills itself as " The Port City of Central New York ". The city has the latest estimates from 2005, according to a little less than 18,000 inhabitants.
The State University of New York at Oswego is located outside of the actual city limits in the West. Neighboring towns are Oswego Town, Minetto, and Scriba.
History
The story goes back to Oswegos the 17th century. The explorer Samuel de Champlain will be the first European who explored the area, named. The British established there in 1722 Fort Oswego, increased trade items. 1755 Fort Ontario was still on the other side of the river also built, now one of the city's attractions. In the French and Indian War (1754-1763) Fort Oswego was briefly occupied by the French.
In 1796, the British withdrew from Fort Oswego and settlers from the east coast and from the eastern parts of New York came to the area. In the British -American War British forces occupied briefly Fort Ontario. Officially, the city was founded in 1848. The then upturn was mainly due to the existence of the Oswego Canal, a connection between the Erie Canal and Lake Ontario. The resident of the city of merchants came by trading with flour, wheat, wood, iron, salt and corn starch to wealth. By the harbor and the fact that the place for a long time was a railway junction, the development Oswegos was also strongly favored a modern city in the following decades.
Geography
According to United States Census Bureau, Oswego has an area of 29.1 km ², of which 19.8 km ² land and 9.2 km ² water.
The city is located on the southeastern shore of Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Oswego River. Oswego is located 56 km north (rather north-west ) of Syracuse and 110 km east of the lying on the south bank of Lake Ontario, Rochester.
The New York State Route 481 runs from northwest to southeast of Oswego to the nearest town of Fulton and ends in North Syracuse at the leading Syracuse to Interstate 81, the New York State Route 104 runs east to west from Oswego to Rochester.
Oswego is one of the snowiest cities in America. In some winters there is a snow depth of 7.62 m. The sometimes extreme snowfalls led, for example, in the years 1995 and 2007 for several days setting of the school and university operations.
Population
According to the last official census, the city has 17 954 inhabitants, spread over 7,338 households. The population density is therefore 905 people per square kilometer. Most of the population ( 95.33 percent) are white; Hispanics and Latinos (2.8 percent), African American (1.04 percent), Asians (0.82 percent) and Native Americans (0.33 ) put together with members of other and different ethnic backgrounds (1.07 and 1.42 percent), the absolute minority.
Politics and Administration
The elected city council Oswegos consists of the mayor and seven aldermen, which are determined in each case by one of the seven boroughs. In addition, maintains the city full-time employees in the usual municipal departments such as the police, the waterworks, waste disposal and others.