Orchard Park is a town of 29,686 people in Erie County, one of the Southtowns southeast of Buffalo. Quaker families began settling here in 1804, a year after the Kinneys built the first cabin in the southwest corner of the township, and the schools still carry the Quaker as their mascot. The town was split off from Hamburg in 1850 as Ellicott, spent eighty-four years as East Hamburgh, and took the name Orchard Park in 1934. Chestnut Ridge Park, the largest in Erie County, covers its southern end; in a grotto behind a small waterfall there, a natural gas seep keeps a flame burning.