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Counties of New York Location State of New York Number 62 Populations 5,082 (Hamilton) – 2,561,225 (Kings) Areas 33.77 square miles (87.5 km 2) (New York) – 2,821 square miles (7,310 km 2) (St. Lawrence) Government County government Subdivisions Cities, Towns, Indian Reservations Part of a series on Regions of New York Downstate New York New York City Long Island Hudson Valley (Lower ...
Belfast (/ˈbɛl.fæst/ or /bəlˈfɑːst/) is a town in Allegany County, New York, United States. The town is in what is called the Southern Tier of the state. Its population was 1,656 at the 2020 census. [2] It was named in 1825 after the city of Belfast, Ireland, because it had numerous residents of Scots-Irish ancestry from that area.
Belfast and Belfast Road NY 19 in Belfast: CR 26S: 0.30 0.48 CR 26 Old County Road 26 in Belfast: CR 26 CR 27: 2.12 3.41 NY 19A: Wiscoy Road in Hume: Wyoming County line (becomes CR 29) CR 27B: 3.00 4.83 CR 4 in Hume: Ballard Road Otis Smith Road in Granger: CR 28: 0.98 1.58 Wellsville village line East State Street in Wellsville: NY 417: CR 29 ...
Belfast is located at (42.3428443, −78.1113975) and its elevation is 1,309 feet (399 [ 1 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , Belfast has a total area of 1.412 square miles (3.66 km 2 ), of which 1.385 square miles (3.59 km 2 ) is land and 0.027 square miles (0.07 km 2 ) is water.
County Down is also home to the No.1-ranked golf course, Royal County Down Golf Club, in not just Ireland, but the entire Great Britain, according to Today's Golfer. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] Former No.1 golfer in the world, Rory McIlroy , [ 38 ] originates from Holywood , which is situated in the north of the county.
The English administration in Ireland in the years following the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland created counties as the major subdivisions of an Irish province. [6] This process lasted from the 13th to 17th centuries; however, the number and shape of the counties that would form the future Northern Ireland would not be defined until the Flight of the Earls allowed the shiring of Ulster from ...
The entire system of local government in Northern Ireland was overhauled by the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972, which replaced the county boroughs, administrative counties, urban districts, and rural districts with 26 local government districts. The new system came into effect on 1 October 1973.
The county was administered by Antrim County Council from 1899 until the abolition of county councils in Northern Ireland in 1973. [25] The traditional county town is Antrim. More recently, Ballymena was the seat of county government. From 1973 Northern Ireland was split into districts, which were redrawn in 2015. County Antrim is part of the ...