Erie

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Erie is a city in Pennsylvania, United States. It may also refer to:

General

• Erie (tribe), the name of a tribe of Native Americans whose name is used for various locations
• Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins (1938), a United States Supreme Court case which set forth the Erie doctrine
  • Erie doctrine, which provides that a federal court sitting in diversity jurisdiction over a state law claim must apply state substantive common law in resolving the dispute

Places

North America

• Lake Erie, one of the five Great Lakes of North America
  • Early Lake Erie, a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed at the end of the last ice age
  • Lake Erie Islands, a chain of islands in Lake Erie

Canals

• Erie Canal, a canal running from the Hudson River to Lake Erie
  • Erie Canal Museum
• Miami and Erie Canal (1800s), a canal that connected the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio with Lake Erie in Toledo, Ohio
• Wabash and Erie Canal, a former shipping canal that linked the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River

Canada

British Columbia

• Erie Creek Provincial Park

Ontario

• Erie (electoral district), a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1997
• Erie—Lincoln, a former federal electoral district
• Fort Erie, Ontario, a town on the Niagara River in the Niagara Region
  • Fort Erie (now National Historic Site), the first British fort to be constructed as part of a network after the Treaty of Paris (1763)
  • Fort Erie Airport
• Grand Erie District School Board, a school board that has legal jurisdiction over Norfolk County, Haldimand County, and Brant County

United States

Colorado

• Erie, Colorado, a town in both Boulder County and Weld County
  • Erie High School (Colorado), part of the Saint Vrain Valley School District

Illinois

• Erie, Illinois, a village in Whiteside County
• Erie Township, Whiteside County, Illinois
• Mount Erie, Illinois, a village in Wayne County

Indiana

• Erie, Lawrence County, Indiana
• Erie, Miami County, Indiana

Kansas

• Erie, Kansas, a city in Neosho County

Michigan

• Erie Township, Michigan, a civil township in Monroe County

Minnesota

• Erie Township, Minnesota, in Becker County

New York

• Erie Canal Harbor (Metro Rail), a Buffalo Metro Rail station located next to the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
• Erie County, New York
  • Erie County Fair, aka "America's Fair", held in Hamburg, New York, every August
• Erie Depot, officially known as the Erie Railroad Station, in Port Jervis, New York
• Lake Erie Beach, New York, a hamlet located in the Town of Evans in Erie County
• Lake Erie State Park in the Town of Portland in Chautauqua County
• Old Erie Canal State Historic Park, a part of the New York State Park system

North Dakota

• Erie, North Dakota, an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Cass County

Ohio

• Erie County, Ohio
• Erie MetroParks, the metropolitan park district in Erie County, Ohio
• Erie Township, Ottawa County, Ohio
• Erie-Ottawa Regional Airport, an airport located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of Port Clinton in Ottawa County

Pennsylvania

• Erie County, Pennsylvania
  • Erie, Pennsylvania, a city on Lake Erie coast, the largest place with this name
    • Erie International Airport, a public airport serving northwestern Pennsylvania, located 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of the Erie central business district
• Erie National Wildlife Refuge, an 8,777-acre (35.52 km²) property in Crawford County
• Erie-Torresdale (SEPTA station), an elevated stop on the Market-Frankford Line in Philadelphia
• Erie Triangle, the subject of several competing colonial-era claims, eventually acquired by the U.S. federal government
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Erie

Organizations

• Erie Railroad, a railroad connecting New York City with Lake Erie and extending west to Chicago
• Erie Insurance Group, a multi-line insurance company, offering auto, home, commercial and life insurance
• Erie Times-News, a daily morning newspaper in Erie, Pennsylvania
• Lake Erie College, a private liberal arts college in Painesville, Ohio
• Stelco Lake Erie Works, in the small village of Nanticoke, Ontario, Canada

Locomotives

• Erie L-1, 0-8-8-0 steam locomotives of the Erie Railroad built in 1907 by ALCO
• FM Erie-built, the first streamlined, cab-equipped dual service diesel locomotive built by Fairbanks-Morse

Ships

• USS Erie (disambiguation)
  • USS Erie (1813), a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy in the early 1800s
  • USS Erie (PG-50), the lead ship in a class of two Patrol Gunboats, launched in 1936
• USS Lake Erie (disambiguation)
  • USS Lake Erie (CG-70) (launched 1991), a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser in the United States Navy

Events

• Battle of Fort Erie (1866), a bloody skirmish in 1866, in Canada West
• Battle of Lake Erie (1813), sometimes called the Battle of Put-in-Bay, fought in Lake Erie off the coast of Ohio during the War of 1812
• Capture of Fort Erie, an incident in the War of 1812 between United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States
• Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival, a rock festival held on the Labor Day weekend of 1972 near Griffin, Indiana on Bull Island, Illinois
• Siege of Fort Erie, one of the last engagements between British and American forces during the Niagara campaign of the War of 1812

People

• Edward Erie Poor (1837-1900), Vice-President and then President of the National Park Bank from 1895-1900

Sport

• Erie Blades, name for two former professional ice hockey teams in Erie, Pennsylvania
• Erie Freeze, a charter member of the American Indoor Football Association, team located in Erie, Pennsylvania
• Erie Illusion, a women's football team playing in the National Women's Football Association, based in Erie, Pennsylvania
• Erie Invaders, a 2000 expansion team of the defunct Indoor Football League from Erie, Pennsylvania
• Erie Otters, a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League, playing in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA from 1996 to present
• Erie Panthers, a former professional hockey team in the East Coast Hockey League from 1988-1996
• Erie Sailors, the name of several minor league baseball teams that played in Erie, Pennsylvania between 1906 and 1994
• Erie SeaWolves, a minor league baseball team based in Erie, Pennsylvania, playing in the Eastern League
• Fort Erie Meteors, a Junior "B" team based out of Fort Erie, Ontario
• Lake Erie Monsters, to be an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League, beginning play in the 2007-08 AHL season in Cleveland, Ohio, USA

See also

• Eerie, a magazine of horror comics introduced in 1966 by Warren Publishing
• Eerie, Indiana, a fictional town in the NBC television series of the same name
• Éire, meaning Republic of Ireland in the Irish language

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