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East Amherst, New York

Hamlet in New York, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

East Amherst is a suburban hamlet located 16 miles (26 km) northeast of downtown Buffalo, in Erie County, New York, United States. It straddles the towns of Amherst and Clarence, and comprises the majority of ZIP code 14051.

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The public source identifies “East Amherst, New York” as hamlet in New York, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around East, Amherst and York.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “East Amherst, New York” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.