West Valley, New York

West Valley is a hamlet in the Town of Ashford in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. The population was 518 at the 2010 census, which lists the community as a census-designated place.

Located at the intersection of Cattaraugus County Route 53 and State Route 240/County Route 32, the hamlet is home to West Valley Central School and the West Valley Demonstration Project, a nuclear cleanup facility. Because of the presence of a school district, a telephone exchange (716–942), and a post office located in (and named after) the hamlet, many people mistake West Valley to be the name of an actual town or village. However, it does not have any autonomous government separate from the town of Ashford.

Geography
West Valley is located at 42.40278°N, -78.61°W (42.4028410, −78.6100253) and its elevation is 1522 ft.

According to the 2010 United States Census, the CDP has a total area of 1.535 sqmi, of which 1.532 sqmi is land and 0.003 sqmi is water.

Business

 * Department of Energy West Valley Demonstration Project.   42.451°N, -78.655°W
 * This is the cleanup effort for a former spent fuel reprocessing plant.

Community group

 * Concerned Citizens. West Valley.
 * West Valley Citizen Task Force

Cultural locations

 * Western New York Travel Guide. Museums and Historic Sites in the Chautauqua/Allegheny area.

Education and library

 * West Valley Central School
 * King Memorial Library

Emergency

 * West Valley Volunteer Hose Company

Ethnic

 * Concerned Citizens. Seneca Nation
 * Seneca Nation of Indians

Government

 * Southern Tier West Regional Planning and Development Board. Town of Ashford
 * Cattaraugus County

History

 * Concord Historical Society. Concord NY Historical Society – History Timeline.
 * University at Buffalo Special Collections. Reform, Religion and the Underground Railroad in Western New York.
 * USGenWeb-an Ancestry.com Community. Town of Ashford- 1824.
 * USGenWeb-an Ancestry.com Community. Welcome to Cattaraugus Towns and County Page.
 * USGenWeb-an Ancestry.com Community. “The History of Cattaraugus County, New York.”

Media

 * The Springville Journal
 * Olean Times Herald
 * The Buffalo News. Communities-Southern Tier.

Recreation

 * The Ashford Hollow Foundation Griffis Sculpture Park. Griffis Sculpture Park: History
 * Enchanted Mountains of Cattaraugus County
 * Holiday Valley
 * Holimont

Regional information

 * Discover Southwest, NY-Southern Tier West Regional Planning and Development Board.
 * Ellicottville Chamber of Commerce. Ellicottville, NY.
 * New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. Welcome to the Allegany Region.

Religion

 * St. Paul’s United Methodist Church. St. Paul’s United Methodist Church West Valley, NY.
 * The Catholic Directory. St. John the Baptist Parish.