Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Falconer, NY

Falconer is a village in the town of Ellicott, Chautauqua County, directly on the eastern edge of the city of Jamestown in New York's Southern Tier.

The settlement was first called Worksburg, after Edward Work, who bought the land from the Holland Land Company in August 1807.

The community took its present name in 1874 after the Falconer family — Patrick Falconer sat on the board of the Allegheny & Pittsburgh Railroad and donated land that routed the railroad through the middle of the village.

Falconer was incorporated as a village in 1891.

Route 380 through the village is still called Work Street, a nod to its founder that doubles as a reference to the industrial sites along it where many residents work.

The Chadakoin River, the outlet of Chautauqua Lake, flows through Falconer — meaning the village's waters ultimately drain to the Mississippi River via Cassadaga Creek, Conewango Creek and the Allegheny River.

Author John Cheever chose Falconer as the setting for the fictional Falconer State Prison in his novel Falconer.

Falconer had a population of 2,269 at the 2020 census, with 1,003 households; the village peaked at 3,579 residents in 1930 and has shrunk slowly ever since.

Falconer is unusual locally for its 25-mile-per-hour village speed limit, the lowest of any village or town in Chautauqua County.

The village covers just over one square mile, all of it land, at an elevation of about 1,263 feet.