Rome

About Rome

Rome is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States, located in the central part of the state. The population was 32,127 at the 2020 census. Rome is one of two principal cities in the Utica–Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area, which lies in the "Leatherstocking Country" made famous by James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, set in frontier days before the American Revolutionary War. Rome is in New York's 21st congressional district.

The city developed at an ancient portage site of Native Americans, including the historic Iroquois nations. This portage continued to be strategically important to Europeans, who also used the main 18th and 19th-century waterways, based on the Mohawk and Hudson rivers, that connected New York City and the Atlantic seaboard to the Great Lakes. The original European settlements developed around fortifications erected in the 1750s to defend the portage, in particular the British Fort Stanwix (1758) built in New York.

Following the American Revolution, the settlement began to grow with the construction of the Rome Canal in 1796, to connect Wood Creek (leading to Lake Ontario) and the headwaters of the Mohawk River. In the same year the state created the Town of Rome as a section of Oneida County. For a time, the small community next to the canal was informally known as Lynchville, after the original owner of the property, the prominent wine merchant Dominick Lynch.

The New York State Legislature converted the Town of Rome into a city on February 23, 1870. The residents have called Rome the City of American History.

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Rome weather: 7-day forecast

Source: National Weather Service (NOAA).

Nearest webcams to Rome

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Living in Rome

Median household income

$59,925

Median home value

$154,400

Median rent

$909/mo

Median age

40.7

Map of Rome

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Rome, NY population

Rome had 32,127 residents in the 2020 Census.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Decennial Census.

Rome at a glance

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau (Gazetteer, ZCTA), USGS GNIS, Wikidata.

Towns near Rome

• Lake Delta4.3 mi N
• Verona7.4 mi SW
• Westernville7.6 mi NE
• Westmoreland8.8 mi SE
• Oriskany9.2 mi SE
• Stittville10.1 mi E
• Vernon10.4 mi S
• Clark Mills11.3 mi SE
• Durhamville11.4 mi SW
• Sylvan Beach11.8 mi W
• Holland Patent11.8 mi E
• Whitesboro12.0 mi SE

Straight-line distance between town centers.

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