Town of Cheektowaga

Cheektowaga is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 88,226.[3] The town is in the north-central part of the county. It is the second largest suburb of Buffalo, after the town of Amherst. The town of Cheektowaga contains the village of Sloan and half of the village of Depew. The remainder, outside the villages, is a census-designated place also named Cheektowaga. The town is home to the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Erie Countys principal airport. Villa Maria College, Empire State College, and the Walden Galleria are in Cheektowaga. Cheektowagas earliest known dwellers were the Neutral People, and after came the Seneca people of the Iroquois Confederacy, who named the location Chictawauga, meaning land of the crabapples in the Seneca language. Cheektowaga was formed from the town of Amherst on March 22, 1839, and upon the formation of West Seneca on October 16, 1851, was reduced to its present limitsabout 30 square m...