Fort Erie
Fort Erie is a town of about 33,000 people in the Niagara Region. It is directly across the river from Buffalo, New York, and is the site of Old Fort Erie which played a prominent role in the War of 1812. The Peace Bridge between Fort Erie and Buffalo…Photo: Óðinn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 30,700 residents
- Description: town in Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
- Neighbors: Niagara Falls and Port Colborne
Notable Places in the Area
Peace Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Óðinn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Peace Bridge is an international bridge between Canada and the United States at the east end of Lake Erie at the source of the Niagara River, about 20 kilometres upriver of Niagara Falls.
Fort Erie Race Track
Athletics track
Fort Erie Race Track is a horse racing facility in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, that opened on June 16, 1897.
Old Fort Erie
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Old Fort Erie, also known as Fort Erie, or the Fort Erie National Historic Site of Canada, was the…
Localities in the Area
West Side
Photo: AndreCarrotflower, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sure, for now the Elmwood Village is Buffalo's premier neighborhood for fine dining and cute urban…
Elmwood Village
Photo: AndreCarrotflower, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Allentown and the Delaware District
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Allentown and the Delaware District are two neighborhoods in Buffalo that are adjacent to each other and north of downtown.
Fort Erie
- Categories: lower-tier municipality, border city and locality
- Location: Regional Municipality of Niagara, Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.9131° or 42° 54' 47" northLongitude
-78.9186° or 78° 55' 7" westPopulation
30,700Elevation
183 metres (600 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA FEROpen Location Code
87J3W37J+6HOpenStreetMap ID
node 1829281751OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5955815Wikidata ID
Q268103Fort Erie Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: فورت إيري
- Arabic: فورت إيري، أونتاريو
- Asturian: Fort Erie
- Atikamekw: Fort Érié
- Bavarian: Fort Erie
- Cebuano: Fort Erie
- Chinese: 伊利堡
- Dutch: Fort Erie
- Egyptian Arabic: فورت ايرى
- English: Fort Erie, ON
- English: Fort Erie, Ontario
- French: Fort Érié
- German: Fort Erie
- Italian: Fort Erie
- Japanese: フォートエリー
- Pennsylvania German: Fort Erie, Ontario
- Persian: فورت اری
- Polish: Fort Erie
- Portuguese: Fort Erie
- Russian: Форт-Эри
- Serbian: Форт Ири
- Serbo-Croatian: Fort Erie
- Spanish: Fort Erie
- Spanish: Fort Erie (Ontario)
- Swedish: Fort Erie
- Turkish: Fort Erie
- Ukrainian: Форт-Ері
Other Places Named Fort Erie
Localities in the Area
- Five PointsNeighbourhood
- Elmwood VillageNeighbourhood, 3½ km east
- AllentownNeighbourhood, 3½ km southeast
- West VillageNeighbourhood, 4 km southeast
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Fort Erie. Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.