Erie

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Erie may refer to:

• Erie (tribe) (or Eriez or the "Cat People"), 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.)
• Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes, for which much of the following is named
• The Erie Canal, a canal
• Erie, Pennsylvania, a city
• Erie, Colorado, a town
• Erie, Illinois, a town
• Erie, Kansas, a town
• Erie Township, Michigan, a township in Monroe County
• Erie Township, Ohio, a township in Ottawa County
• Erie County, New York, a county
• Erie County, Ohio, a county
• Erie County, Pennsylvania, a county
• The Erie Railroad, a railroad connecting New York City with Lake Erie and extending west
  • Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), often referred to as Erie, a United States Supreme Court case which set forth the Erie doctrine, requiring federal courts to apply state law when exercising diversity jurisdiction
• Old Erie

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• Eerie, Indiana, a fictional town in the NBC television series of the same name. Note: "Eerie" and "Erie" are pronounced identically in Standard American, and are occasionally confused. Three of the four U.S. states bordering Indiana have well-known Eries.