Cortland (New York)
Cortland County
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Cortland is a city in the U.S. state of New York. The city had in 2010, according to the Census a population of 19 204 and is the administrative center of the county of the same name. It is surrounded by Cortlandville.
Cortland is named after the first Lieutenant Governor of the State, Pierre Van Cortlandt. Another name for the place is Crown City; the name of the city owes to the fact that they increased significantly higher than the surrounding landscape, this " crowned " as.
Geography
Cortland is located between Syracuse and Binghamton. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city covers an area of 10 km ², of which 0.51 % is held by waters. The city is adjacent to the Town Cortlandville.
History
The current urban area was first settled by Europeans in 1791. 1853 became the settlement the status of a Village, 1900 as forty-first city in the state the status of a City. Following the establishment of the county Cortland was determined to headquarters.
The economic focus of the city lay in the late 19th century in the wire manufacturing, the largest company was Wickwire Brothers, which produced coarse-mesh grid by means of wire drawing, which were used for mosquito nets. In the representative residential buildings of the founding family by various municipal facilities such as a school and a museum are housed. In addition, Cortland was the Brockway Motor Company, a pioneer in the production truck, a resident.
Since 1868 in Cortland, a location of the State University of New York.
Demography
At the time of Census 2010, the city occupied 19 204 people, so it is with regard to the number of 2000 ( 18,740 inhabitants) recorded a growth. The population was spread out in 2000 to 6,922 households. The population density was 1845.8 people per km ². The population was made up of 95.72 % White, 1.56 % African American, 0.57 % Asian and 0.25 % Native Americans together. 0.56 % said to belong to a different race to be 1.33% multiracial. Regardless of their ethnicity were 1.72 % of the population Hispanics. The per capita income was 14,267 dollars.
Personalities
Sons and daughters
- Alton B. Parker (1852-1926), lawyer and politician
- Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860-1930), inventor
- Mark Nauseef ( born 1953 ), jazz percussionist
People with relationship to the city
- Nathan Lewis Miller (1868-1953), politician, school and went to college in the city
- Reflect Willcox (1903-1999), jazz trombonist, died in Cortland