Big Flats is a town in Chemung County, New York, USA, New York. The population was 7,224 at the 2000 census.
The Town of Big Flats is on the west border of the county, west of Elmira, New York. It is part of the ‘Elmira, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area’.
The Town of Big Flats, which had formerly been called “Great Plains”, was organized in 1822 from the Town of Elmira.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 45.1 square miles (116.7 km²), of which, 44.5 square miles (115.2 km²) of it is land and 0.6 square miles (1.5 km²) of it (1.24%) is water.
The Chemung River flows through the south part of the town and forms part of the border. Sing Sing Creek flows through the town and is a tributary of the river. As might be expected given the history of the naming of the town, it consists of a broad expanse of relatively flat land, the axis of which lies generally northeast to southwest. It is a river valley, and the land has historically been very…
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