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Parish is a town in Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 2,558 at the 2010 census. The population was 2,558 at the 2010 census. The Town of Parish was created from the Town of Mexico in 1828.
Parish is a village located in the town of Parish, in Oswego County, New York, United States. This village is part of the Syracuse metropolitan area . Its population was 447 as of the census of 2020.
This is a list of towns in New York. As of the 2020 United States population census , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the 62 counties of the State of New York are subdivided into 933 towns , 62 cities , and 10 American Indian reservations .
This is a list of municipalities in New York other than towns, which includes all 531 villages and 62 cities of New York. Of the total 593 municipalities, 588 are non-town municipalities, while five are coterminous town-villages , villages that are coterminous with their town.
In New York, a town is a municipal corporation, [29] and is the major division of each county (excluding the five boroughs that comprise New York City), very similar to townships in other states such as Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. Towns in New York are classified by the U.S. Census Bureau as minor civil divisions. [30]
The town was laid out in 1809 on a tract of land that David Parish had purchased from J. D. Le Ray de Chaumont in 1808. [2] The first settlers arrived around 1810. The town was formed in 1814 from the town of Hopkinton. The town was named for David Parish. [2] In 1843, part of Parishville was used to form the town of Colton.
On March 24, 1825, the Town of Albion was set apart from the Town of Richland. On the original survey map of Scriba's Patent, this was known as Township 22. George Scriba called it Alkmaar after a town in his home country of Holland. The first town meeting was held in Albion on May 3 that same year. Local officials were chosen for various offices.
The town was formed in 1792 from part of the town of Whitestown. In 1795, part of Paris was used to found the town of Sherburne (now in Chenango County). In 1827, the town of Kirkland, New York was separated from the town of Paris. The St. Paul's Church and Cemetery at Paris Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [3]