Welcome to Old Fort Erie ...

Although we found mention of Old Fort Erie during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Old Fort Erie was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..

We've added Old Fort Erie to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Old Fort Erie, please Contact Us.

A typical abbreviation for Old Fort Erie: Old Ft. Erie (or less commonly used: Old Frt. Erie)

Time Zone: The area where we believe that Old Fort Erie might be (or was) located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time. The time zone in French: EST- Heure Normale de l'Est (HNE), EDT- Heure Avancée de l'Est (HAE).

We believe that Old Fort Erie would be found within the (905) area code.

Communities near Old Fort Erie ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Old Fort Erie.

Buffalo
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo
- Buffalo is located in Erie County (NY)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 254,479 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Buffalo <2>
Niagara Falls
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niagara Falls
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Niagara Falls <2>
Welland
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Welland
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Welland <2>
Niagara Falls
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niagara Falls
- Niagara Falls is located in Niagara County (NY)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 47,392 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Niagara Falls <2>
North Tonawanda
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Tonawanda
- North Tonawanda is located in Niagara County (NY)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 30,050 people
Port Colborne
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Colborne
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Port Colborne <2>
Lackawanna
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lackawanna
- Lackawanna is located in Erie County (NY)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 17,632 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lackawanna <2>
Kenmore
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenmore
- Kenmore is located in Erie County (NY)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 14,947 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kenmore <2>
Depew
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Depew
- Depew is located in Erie County (NY)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 14,940 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Depew <2>
Tonawanda
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tonawanda
- Tonawanda is located in Erie County (NY)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 14,755 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tonawanda <2>

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Old Fort Erie. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Old Fort Erie.

We have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Old Fort Erie. See our Newspapers Page for Old Fort Erie.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Old Fort Erie ...

Looking for more information about Old Fort Erie? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Old Fort Erie, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Old Fort Erie.

Adding Old Fort Erie to Our Gazetteer ...

As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Old Fort Erie was mentioned on a train schedule titled Michigan Central Railroad Time Tables (May 1892).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Old Fort Erie.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Old Fort Erie and then turned east". While Old Fort Erie could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Old Fort Erie as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Old Fort Erie could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.

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