Tully (village), New York
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Tully is a village
Village
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 in Onondaga County
Onondaga County, New York
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, New York
New York
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, USA. The population was 924 at the 2000 census. The name of the village is derived from the Roman
Ancient Rome
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 orator Marcus Tullius Cicero.

The Village of Tully is in the southeast part of the Town of Tully
Tully (town), New York
Tully is a town in Onondaga County, New York, USA. The population of the town was 2,709 at the 2000 census. The name of the town is derived from the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero. The town is on the county's south border, south of Syracuse....

 and is south of Syracuse
Syracuse, New York
Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States, the largest U.S. city with the name "Syracuse", and the fifth most populous city in the state. At the 2010 census, the city population was 145,170, and its metropolitan area had a population of 742,603...

.

History

The village was in the former Central New York Military Tract
Central New York Military Tract
The Military Tract of Central New York, also called the New Military Tract, consisted of nearly two million acres of bounty land set aside to compensate New York’s soldiers after their participation in the Revolutionary War....

. The community was first settled by outsiders around 1795.

The village was incorporated in 1875.

Geography

Tully is located at 42°47′51"N 76°6′23"W (42.797655, -76.106434).

According to the United States Census Bureau
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, the village has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.7 km²), of which all is land.

Tully is on US Route 11 at the intersection of New York State Route 80
New York State Route 80
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.

Demographics

As of the census
Census
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of 2000, there were 924 people, 404 households, and 242 families residing in the village. The population density
Population density
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 was 1,432.6 people per square mile (557.4/km²). There were 431 housing units at an average density of 668.3 per square mile (260.0/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 97.62% White, 0.11% Black or African American
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, 0.43% Native American, 0.11% Asian, 0.43% from other races
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, and 1.30% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.76% of the population.

There were 404 households out of which 33.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.6% were married couples
Marriage
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 living together, 14.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.9% were non-families. 32.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 16.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.29 and the average family size was 2.89.

In the village the population was spread out with 26.4% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 33.1% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 12.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 88.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 81.3 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $39,000, and the median income for a family was $46,563. Males had a median income of $35,375 versus $21,902 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income
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 for the village was $19,688. About 6.0% of families and 9.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 18.8% of those under age 18 and 8.0% of those age 65 or over.

Schools

Schools in Tully date back to Miss Ruth Thorpe who established a place of learning in Timothy Walker's barn in 1801. The district received its first charter from the Board of Regents to form a high school in 1898. The centralization of the Tully school district occurred in 1930. The centralized school was housed in the current elementary school building with both younger students and high schoolers in the same building.

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