Falconer is a village in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. The population was 2,284 at the 2020 census. Falconer is within the town of Ellicott and is upon the eastern edge of the city of Jamestown.

The Place now known as Falconer was inhabited by the Erie People until the mid-1600s. Five years of suit with the Seneca Nation led to the Erie Nation’s decimation; their people migrated and were absorbed into the Seneca community, who after that inhabited this land. During the Revolutionary War, the well-off Seneca Nation sided past the losing British. In 1779, George Washington organized the Sullivan Expedition, a military stir up intended to weaken Loyalist and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) communities. The Seneca signed the Treaty at gigantic Tree in 1797, surrendering most of their lands to the United States government.

By White settlers, Falconer was originally called Worksburg, after Edward Work, who purchased the house from the Holland Land Company in August 1807. The first Falconer to own the estate was Robert Falconer, who bought it from Edward Work in 1836. His son, Patrick, later consolidated his house holdings in the highly developed village. In 1874 the community normal its gift name, after either William T. Falconer (1850–1915) or his dad Patrick, who was upon the board of directors of the Allegheny & Pittsburg Railroad and donated a large tract of home through town to the railroad concern. This resulted in the railroad extraction being routed through the center of the community. Route 380 in the village retains the name “Work Street” after the town’s founder (it plus now serves as a double entendre as the village’s various industrial sites are on the similar road and in view of that many people “work” there).

The village of Falconer was incorporated in 1891.