Monroe County, New York
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US state : | new York |
Administrative headquarters : | Rochester |
Foundation : | February 23, 1821 |
Made up from: |
Genesee County Ontario County |
Area code : | 001 585 |
Demographics | |
Residents : | 744,344 (2010) |
Population density : | 437.3 inhabitants / km 2 |
geography | |
Total area : | 3,539.8 km² |
Water surface : | 1,837.7 km² |
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Website : www.monroecounty.gov |
Monroe County is a county in the state of New York in the United States . At the 2010 census , Monroe County had 744,344 residents and a population density of 1,136.6 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Rochester .
geography
Monroe County is on the south bank of Lake Ontario , through which the border with Canada runs. As a glacial ground moraine and the former soil of a post-glacial meltwater lake, Lake Tonawanda , its landscape is fertile, predominantly flat to undulating, with a maximum elevation of around 200 m above sea level. The county drops from an average height of about 120 meters above sea level on the southern border to about 75 meters above sea level. The largest watercourse is the Genesee River , which flows through the county from south to north and flows into Lake Ontario near Rochester . The county has an area of 3,539.8 square kilometers, of which 1,837.7 square kilometers are water, mostly parts of Lake Ontario.
Surrounding areas
Lake Ontario | Lake Ontario | Lake Ontario |
Orleans County | Wayne County | |
Genesee County | Livingston County | Ontario County |
history
The settlement of the area of today's county apparently began after the last ice age, after the retreat of a large lake that had formed at the edge of the melting ice sheet. It is known from a nearby site that mastodons , elephant-like animals, lived in the area and that hunters with arrowheads and flint tools roamed the area. No further finds are known, so that until the beginning of the exploration of the country by European missionaries who came from Canada across Lake Ontario in 1620, no statements can be made about the native inhabitants.
The first surviving reports describe the area of today's Monroe County as the hunting ground of one of the local Iroquois tribes, the Seneca Indians . With the settlement of the area from 1788 (a first temporary settler near what is now Rochester; first permanent settlement from 1789) these reports were confirmed. Since the Seneca were not always friendly to the settlers and also the dense forest and the unhealthy, swampy climate made the area seem unattractive, the settlement was only slowly advanced. It was only after the war of 1812 that the number of local settlers increased rapidly; the port city of Rochester on Lake Ontario, an important traffic route, quickly developed into a trading city on the lakeshore.
When it was founded on February 23, 1821, the area that had previously belonged to Genesee County and Ontario County was released into its own administration and named after James Monroe , the fifth President of the United States .
Rochester's development into an important trading hub on the west bank of Lake Ontario was promoted by the construction of the Erie Canal (opened in the local section in 1823) and the construction of the railway network between around 1840 and 1870. Compared to the counties and towns in the area, Monroe County was one of the densely populated areas of western New York. Agriculture is particularly practiced in the south of the county, while trade and manufacturing are concentrated along the more densely populated lakeshore.
The transportation routes allowed Monroe County and the surrounding areas to become one of the granaries of the early United States; the flour mills in Rochester produced flour for much of the east coast. After the Second World War, grain production was displaced by vegetable growing; in Rochester also increasingly specialized industry settled from the end of the 19th century. This is how the first contact lenses came about; George Eastman founded the Kodak company here ; and Xerox was founded here.
Three locations have National Historic Landmark status , the New York State Barge Canal , Susan B. Anthony House, and George Eastman House . A total of 183 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of February 19, 2018).
Population development
year | 1800 | 1810 | 1820 | 1830 | 1840 | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 |
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Residents | - | - | - | 49,855 | 64.902 | 87,650 | 100,648 | 117,868 | 144.903 | 189,586 |
year | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 |
Residents | 217.854 | 283.212 | 352.034 | 423,881 | 438.230 | 487,632 | 586,387 | 711.917 | 702.238 | 713.968 |
year | 2000 | 2010 | 2020 | 2030 | 2040 | 2050 | 2060 | 2070 | 2080 | 2090 |
Residents | 735.343 | 744.344 |
Cities and towns
In addition to the independent municipalities listed below, there are several villages in Monroe County .
Locality | status | Population (2010) |
Total area [km²] |
Land area [km²] |
Population density [inhabitants / km²] |
founding | Specialty |
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Brighton | town | 36,609 | 40.4 | 39.9 | 917.5 | 15th Mar 1814 | |
chili | town | 28,625 | 103.3 | 102.3 | 279.8 | Feb. 22, 1822 | |
Clarkson | town | 6,736 | 85.9 | 85.9 | 78.4 | Apr 2, 1819 | |
East Rochester | town | 6,587 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 1,937.4 | ||
Gates | town | 28,400 | 39.6 | 39.4 | 720.8 | 30th Mar 1802 | Founded as Northampton ; renamed on June 10, 1812 |
Greece | town | 96,095 | 133.1 | 123.1 | 780.6 | 22 Mar 1822 | |
Hamlin | town | 9,045 | 115.5 | 112.6 | 80.3 | Oct 11, 1852 | |
Henrietta | town | 42,581 | 92.3 | 91.6 | 35.4 | 27 Mar 1818 | |
Irondequoit | town | 51,692 | 43.6 | 38.9 | 1,328.8 | 27 Mar 1839 | |
Mendon | town | 9,152 | 103.6 | 102.2 | 89.5 | May 26, 1812 | |
Ogden | town | 19,856 | 95.1 | 94.5 | 210.1 | Jan. 27, 1817 | |
Parma | town | 15,633 | 111.3 | 108.8 | 143.7 | Apr 8, 1808 | |
Penfield | town | 36,242 | 98.0 | 96.4 | 376.0 | 30th Mar 1810 | |
Perinton | town | 46,462 | 89.5 | 88.5 | 525.0 | May 26, 1812 | |
Pittsford | town | 29,405 | 60.6 | 60.0 | 490.1 | 25th Mar 1814 | |
Riga | town | 5,590 | 91.2 | 90.6 | 61.7 | Apr 8, 1808 | |
Rochester | City | 210,565 | 96.2 | 92.7 | 227.1 | 21 Mar 1817 | Founded as Village Rochesterville ; renamed April 12, 1822; named City April 28, 1834. County Seat |
Rush | town | 3,478 | 79.5 | 78.6 | 44.2 | 13 Mar 1818 | |
Sweden | town | 14,175 | 87.6 | 87.2 | 162.6 | Apr 2, 1814 | |
Webster | town | 42,641 | 91.3 | 86.8 | 491.3 | Feb 6, 1840 | |
Wheatland | town | 4,775 | 79.4 | 78.8 | 60.6 | 23 Feb 1821 | Founded as Inverness ; renamed on April 3, 1821 |
literature
- Franklin Benjamin Hough: Gazetteer of the State of New York . tape 2 . A. Boyd, Albany, NY 1873, pp. 389 ff . (English, archive.org [PDF; 67.9 MB ; accessed on January 1, 2018]).
Individual evidence
- ^ Monroe County in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: New York . National Park Service , accessed February 19, 2018.
- ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed February 19, 2018.
- ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
- ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
- ↑ a b Official data of the United States Board on Geographic Names
- ^ Franklin Benjamin Hough: Gazetteer of the State of New York . tape 2 . A. Boyd, Albany, NY 1873, pp. 391 ff .
Web links
Coordinates: 43 ° 28 ′ N , 77 ° 40 ′ W