Highland-on-the-Lake is a
hamlet
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and
census-designated place
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(CDP) in the town of
Evans
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,
Erie County,
New York
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, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the
2020 census.
[
The CDP is in the southwestern part of the county, in the northern part of the town of Evans. It sits on high ground on the shore of ]Lake Erie
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, on bluffs which in some places rise above the lake. New York State Route 5
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runs through the CDP, leading northeast to Buffalo
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and southwest to Dunkirk
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. The Frank Lloyd Wright
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-designed Graycliff is in the northern part of the CDP, overlooking Lake Erie.
Demographics
References
Census-designated places in Erie County, New York
Census-designated places in New York (state)
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