Allegany County is in the Southern Tier of New York state.
Cities
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Map of Allegany County (New York)- 1 Belmont — the county seat
- 2 Alfred — home of Alfred State College, one of the state university system's highest-regarded technical schools, as well as the smaller, private Alfred University
- 3 Angelica — antique shopping galore in the "Town Where History Lives"
- 4 Bolivar — 19th-century oil boomtown that was briefly the wealthiest municipality in the U.S. per capita, now home to the Pioneer Oil Museum
- 5 Cuba — no longer the "Cheese Capital of the World", but still famous for locally produced cheeses and other dairy products
- 6 Houghton — another college town, this charming village is the home of Houghton College
- 7 Rushford — vacation cottages aplenty on the shore of Rushford Lake
- 8 Wellsville — the largest village in Allegany County (population about 4,500), named not for the oil wells that flourished here in the 19th century but for a prominent local citizen