DUNKIRK, a city of Chautauqua county, New York, on Lake Erie, 4om. S.W. of Buffalo. It is a port of entry and is served by the Erie, the New York Central, the Nickel Plate and the Pennsylvania railways. The population in 193o was 17,802. The city is pleasantly situated high above the lake, and has a good harbour. It is a shipping point for great quantities of grapes (the agricultural specialty of the region), and has important manu factures, including locomotives, agricultural implements, radiators (heating), silk gloves and underwear, milk bottles and lumber, with an output in 1927 valued at $21,160,849. Dunkirk was settled about 1805, incorporated as a village in 1837, with 70o inhabitants, and chartered as a city in 1880. It owes its name to the similarity of its harbour to that of Dunkirk, France.