Porter, New York |Porter, New York| |— Town —| |• Type||Town
Council| |• Town Supervisor||Merton K. Wiepert (R)| |• Town
Council| |• Total||37.7 sq mi (97.8 km2)| |• Land||33.2 sq mi
(86.0 km2)| |• Water||4.5 sq mi (11.7 km2)| |Elevation||305 ft
(93 m)| |• Density||204.8/sq mi (79.1/km2)| |Time zone||Eastern
(EST) (UTC-5)| |• Summer (DST)||EDT (UTC-4)| |GNIS feature
ID||0979386| The Town of Porter lies in the northwest corner of
Niagara County and is north of the City of Niagara Falls. for
thousands of years inhabited by varying cultures of indigenous
peoples, at the time of European encounter, this was territory
of the powerful Iroquois Confederacy, based in present-day New
York state. Permanent European-American settlement did not take
place until after the American Revolution, about 1801, after
most of the Iroquois had been forced to cede their lands to New
York and had emigrated to Upper Canada. The Town of Porter was
created in 1812 from the Town of Cambria, but further
development was hindered by the Wa