Genesee County, New York

Genesee County Courthouse
administration
US state :	new York
Administrative headquarters :	Batavia
Foundation :	March 30, 1802
Made up from:	Ontario County
Area code :	001 585
Demographics
Residents :	60,079  (2010)
Population density :	47.1 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area :	1,282.8 km²
Water surface :	6.1 km²
map
Website : www.co.genesee.ny.us

Genese County is a county in the state of New York in the United States . At the 2010 census , Genese County had 60,079 residents and a population density of 47.1 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Batavia .

geography

The area of ​​Genesee County is shaped by Ice Age sediments, which initially formed as the ground moraines of the ice sheets at that time and which were further shaped at the end of the last Ice Age around 12,000 years ago by a meltwater lake, Lake Tonawanda . Accordingly, the area has no pronounced hills or large watercourses; its soils are sandy. The county covers an area of ​​1,282.8 square kilometers, of which 6.1 square kilometers are water.

Surrounding areas

Niagara County	Orleans County	Monroe County
Niagara County Erie County		Monroe County Livingston County
Erie County	Wyoming County	Livingston County

history

Little is known about the settlement of the area before the first Europeans appeared because there are no written records. An archaeological site in Byron , the Hiscock Site , provided some evidence of post-glacial fauna; so the remains of mastodons were discovered, but also traces of human hunters: arrowheads and tools made of flint .

From around 1620, with the beginning of the exploration and settlement of the country by Europeans who advanced south from the area of ​​what is now Canada, written evidence was also handed down that reported by the local residents. In what is now Genesee County, the Seneca Indians were resident, a tribe of the Iroquois who held the westernmost settlement area of ​​the tribes of the Five Nations.

Due to the initially unclear demarcation between the territories of the British and the Canadians, western New York was initially not declared as part of the British, later American territory. Only with the beginning of the large land grabbing was the west sold to land development companies. The area of ​​the later Genesee County belonged to large parts of the Holland Land Company , which from 1793 put the area up for sale. This area and a second area approximately 2,000 km² in size, the Morris Reserve , later became the original Genesee County. The headquarters of the central sales office developed into today's administrative headquarters in Batavia.

The hinterland of New York was divided into smaller administrative units several times during the colonization. This always happened when the population density of an area allowed self-administration. The distances between the settlers and their administrative offices were significantly reduced.

Genesee County was created on March 30, 1802 as a separation from Ontario County . It was named after a word from the Seneca language, which meant something like beautiful valley . The county initially comprised the entire western half of the original Ontario County and was itself divided several times:

• April 7, 1806 - Allegany County is separated
• March 8, 1808 - Separation of Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County and Niagara County, which at that time also included the later Erie County; it only became independent on April 2, 1821
• February 23, 1821 - Livingston Counties and Monroe Counties are separated
• April 15, 1825 - Separation of Orleans County (10 mi² back on May 1, 1826)
• March 19, 1841 - Separation from Wyoming County

With that the administrative changes of the area were completed and the boundaries of today's county were fixed. The administrative seat of the county remained Batavia for the entire period.

While the vast expanses of the American West were primarily used by the settlers for agriculture and animal husbandry, economic centers emerged on the natural traffic flows. Thus evolved Buffalo (now Erie County) on Lake Erie into an important port on the Great Lakes; on Niagara, Niagara Falls (now Niagara County) was created, an industrial city with almost inexhaustible electrical energy from hydropower. Several important ports also emerged on Lake Ontario. In the south, the Mohawk River formed a natural waterway that gave rise to larger settlements. The land areas between these natural conditions, on the other hand, remained predominantly agricultural areas with a few larger towns.

With the construction of the Erie Canal , a new farm road was created that connected New York on the east coast with Buffalo and the Great Lakes. The canal runs north of Genesee County through Orleans County. The canal supported the region's economic development. The center of the county was Batavia, where additional businesses were now located. In particular, agricultural implements and shoes were produced here. The construction of railroads from 1840 supported this development. From the 1880s, however, the businesses were moved to the centers on the coast and Lake Erie; With the beginning of the Great Depression of 1929 at the latest, Batavia was only a local producer of goods that mainly cover the needs of agricultural production.

At the end of March 2011, 19 historic sites in the county were listed on the National Register of Historic Places , including the Holland Land Office is a National Historic Landmark .

Population development

Census Results - Genesee County, New York

year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	-	12,588	58.093	52,147	59,587	24,488	32,189	31,606	32,806	33,265
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	34,561	37,615	37,976	44,468	44,481	47,584	53,994	58,722	59,400	60,060
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	60,370	60,079

Cities and towns

In addition to the independent municipalities listed below, there are several villages in Genesee County .

Locality	status	Population (2010)	Total area [km²]	Land area [km²]	Population density [inhabitants / km²]	founding	Specialty
Alabama	town	1,869	110.8	109.7	17.0	Apr 17, 1826	Founded as Gerrysville ; renamed on April 21, 1828
Alexander	town	2,534	92.1	91.9	27.6	0June 8, 1812
Batavia	City	15,465	13.7	13.5	1,145.6	1823	County Seat
Batavia	town	6,809	125.4	124.8	54.6	30th Mar 1802
Mountains	town	3,120	71.8	71.4	43.7	0June 8, 1812
Bethany	town	1,765	93.4	93.3	18.9	0June 8, 1812
Byron	town	2,369	83.6	83.4	28.4	0Apr 4, 1820
Darien	town	3.158	123.3	122.7	25.7	Feb 10, 1832
Elba	town	2,370	92.4	92.3	25.7	14 Mar 1820
Le Roy	town	7,641	109.2	109.0	70.1	0June 8, 1812
Oakfield	town	3,250	62.0	60.4	53.8	Apr 11, 1842
Pavilion	town	2,495	92.5	92.2	27.1	May 19, 1841
Pembroke	town	4,292	108.0	107.8	39.8	0June 8, 1812
Stafford	town	2,459	81.0	80.5	31.0	24 Mar 1820
Tonawanda reservation	reservation	483	23.9	23.7	20.4		Cross-border z. T. in Erie County

literature

• John Homer French: Gazetteer of the State of New York . RP Smith, Syracuse, NY 1860, pp. 314 ff . (English, archive.org [PDF; 63.8 MB ; accessed on January 1, 2018]).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genesee County in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
2. ↑ Population 1810-2010 according to census results
3. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
4. ↑ ^{a b} Official data of the United States Board on Geographic Names
5. ^ Franklin Benjamin Hough: Gazetteer of the State of New York . tape 1 . A. Boyd, Albany, NY 1873, pp. 314 ff .

Web links

Commons : Genesee County, New York  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Coordinates: 43 ° 0 ′  N , 78 ° 12 ′  W