Allegany County (New York)
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Cities
- — the county seat
- — home of Alfred State College, one of the state university system's highest-regarded technical schools, as well as the smaller, private Alfred University
- — antique shopping galore in the "Town Where History Lives"
- — 19th-century oil boomtown that was briefly the wealthiest municipality in the U.S. per capita, now home to the Pioneer Oil Museum
- — no longer the "Cheese Capital of the World", but still famous for locally produced cheeses and other dairy products
- — another college town, this charming village is the home of Houghton College
- — vacation cottages aplenty on the shore of Rushford Lake
- — 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