They named this site as Chictawauga, meaning 'land of the crabapples' in the Seneca language. They were pushed out by the more powerful Seneca people, the most western of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, who were seeking to control the fur trade. Villa Maria College, Empire State College, and the Walden Galleria are in Cheektowaga.Ĭheektowaga's earliest known historic occupants were the Iroquoian-speaking Neutral people. The town is home to the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Erie County's principal airport. The remainder, outside the villages, is a census-designated place also named Cheektowaga. The town of Cheektowaga contains the village of Sloan and half of the village of Depew. The town is the second-largest suburb of Buffalo, after the Town of Amherst. The town is in the north-central part of the county, and is an inner ring suburb of Buffalo. As of the 2020 census, the town has grown to a population of 89,877.
Cheektowaga ( / ˌ t ʃ i k t ə ˈ w ɑː ɡ ə/) is a town in Erie County, New York, United States.
