Settlements similar to or like Buffalo, New York

County seat of Erie County, and the second most populous city in the U.S. state of New York, after New York City. Originating around 1789 as a small trading community inhabited by the Neutral Nation near the mouth of Buffalo Creek, the city, then a town, grew quickly after the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, with the city at its western terminus. Wikipedia

State in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. One of the original thirteen colonies forming the United States. Wikipedia

Major city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. maritime border with Canada and approximately 60 mi west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania state border. Wikipedia

City in Niagara County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 50,193, down from the 55,593 recorded in the 2000 census. Wikipedia

Westernmost region of the state of New York. It includes the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Niagara Falls, Jamestown and the surrounding suburbs, as well as the outlying rural areas of the Great Lakes lowlands and Niagara Frontier, the Genesee Valley, and Chautauqua-Alleghany (or the western Southern Tier.) The historic beginnings of the region can be defined by its original eastern boundary of Preemption Line, created by the December 16, 1786 political settlement between the states of New York and Massachusetts, both of which claimed political dominion over the land. Wikipedia

City in the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Monroe County, and the third-most populous in the state after New York City and Buffalo, with an estimated population of 205,695 in 2020. The city of Rochester forms the core of a much larger metropolitan area with a population of around 1.1 million people, across six counties. Wikipedia