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Rome
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city in Oneida County, New York, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New York
- County
- Oneida
- Type
- Mayor-Council
- Mayor
- Jeffrey M. Lanigan ( R )
- Total
- 75.66 sq mi (195.95 km )
- Land
- 74.85 sq mi (193.87 km )
- Water
- 0.80 sq mi (2.08 km ) 0.99%
- Elevation
- 456 ft (139 m)
- Density
- 429.2/sq mi (165.71/km )
- Demonym
- Roman
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Zip codes
- 13440-13442 (Rome) 13308 ( Blossvale ) 13478 ( Verona )
- Fips code
- 36-63418
- Gnis feature id
- 0962840
- Website
- romenewyork .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Welcome to Rome, NY - City of Rome
Jeffrey Lanigan Mayor Rome gained its reputation as the Copper City during the Industrial Revolution when the city produced an estimated 10-percent of all
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Rome
- Population
- 32127
- Area
- 195.808863
- Elevation
- 139
- Official website
- romenewyork.com
- Image
- OneidaCoCourthouse-Beale.jpg
- Households
- 13092
- Dialing code
- 315
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- Commons category
- Rome, New York
- postal code
- 13449
- inception
- 1870-00-00
- P8168
- Viviane Reding
- P12749
- Peter Gosse
- water as percent of area
- 1.0733
- per capita income
- 26731
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Rome is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States, located in the central part of the state. The population was 32,127 at the 2020 census. Rome is one of two principal cities in the Utica–Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area, which lies in the "Leatherstocking Country" made famous by James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, set in frontier days before the American Revolutionary War. Rome is in New York's 21st congressional district.
The city developed at an ancient portage site of Native Americans, including the historic Iroquois nations. This portage continued to be strategically important to Europeans, who also used the main 18th and 19th-century waterways, based on the Mohawk and Hudson rivers, that connected New York City and the Atlantic seaboard to the Great Lakes. The original European settlements developed around fortifications erected in the 1750s to defend the portage, in particular the British Fort Stanwix (1758) built in New York.