Erie

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Contents 1 People 2 Places 2.1 Bodies of Water 2.2 Towns 2.3 Townships 2.4 Counties 3 Other uses

People

The Eriez or Erie is the name of a tribe of Native Americans whose name is used for various locations. The word was borrowed into English from French which had previously borrowed the word (and gallicized it) from a neighboring Iroquoian language (such as, Huron.)

Places

Erie is the name of several places in the United States of America:

Bodies of Water

• Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes, for which much of the following is named
• The Erie Canal

Towns

• Erie, Colorado
• Erie, Illinois
• Erie, Kansas
• Erie, Pennsylvania

Townships

• Erie Township, Michigan, in Monroe County
• Erie Township, Ohio, in Ottawa County

Counties

• Erie County, New York
• Erie County, Ohio
• Erie County, Pennsylvania

Other uses

• The Erie Railroad.
• Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), often referred to as Erie, is a United States Supreme Court case which set forth the Erie doctrine, requiring federal courts to apply state law when exercising diversity jurisdiction.

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