Chemung County, NY

Chemung County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the ‘Elmira, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area’ which encompasses all of Chemung County. Its county seat is Elmira.

Chemung County is in the southwestern part of New York State, along the Pennsylvania border, in a part of New York called the Southern Tier and is also part of the Finger Lakes Region. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 411 square miles (1,064.5 km2), of which 408 square miles (1,056.7 km2) is land and 3 square miles (7.8 km2) (0.64%) is water.

The Southern Tier Expressway runs through the County east-west near the Pennsylvania border, between Waverly, New York and Corning, New York via Elmira, New York.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemung_County,_New_York

Horseheads – Full Market Value

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While East Ithaca is pretty expensive, if you head about 20 miles south down Old Ithaca Road, you find that Horsesheads to very inexpensive to live in.

Horseheads vs Corning, a size comparison

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Horseheads is certainly more sprawling than Corning, as the prior is kind of a suburb of Elmira. Corning is compact also due to geography and the rather narrow valley its situated in.