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Genesee County, New York

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28historic places

—earliest paper

1802formed

58,388pop. 2020

66cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 28 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Batavia, LeRoy, Le Roy.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

15 of 28 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

28 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Alexander Classical School	Alexander	Building	1973
Batavia Cemetery	Batavia	Site	2002
Batavia Club	Batavia	Building	1973
Batavia Veterans Administration Hospital	Batavia	District	2012
First Presbyterian Church	Batavia	Building	2004
First Presbyterian Church of Le Roy	Le Roy	Building	2014
Genesee County Courthouse	Batavia	Building	1973
Genesee County Courthouse Historic District	Batavia	District	1982
Gifford-Walker Farm	North Bergen	Building	1980
Holland Land Office NHL	Batavia	Building	1966
Keeney House	LeRoy	Building	1979
Lake Street Historic District	Village of Bergen	Building	1985
Le Roy Historic District	Le Roy	District	2017
LeRoy House and Union Free School	Leroy	Building	1997
LeRoy Methodist Episcopal Church	LeRoy	Building	2026
Machpelah Cemetery	LeRoy	Building	2007
Marion Steam Shovel	LeRoy	Structure	2008
Morganville Pottery Factory Site	Morganville	Site	1974
Mount Pleasant	Corfu	Building	1984
Newberry Building	Batavia	Building	2017
North Bergen Presbyterian Church	Bergen	Building	2022
Oakfield High School	Oakfield	Building	2024
Richmond Memorial Library	Batavia	Building	1974
Saint James' Episcopal Church	Batavia	Building	2004
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church & Cemetery	LeRoy	Building	2021
Stafford Village Four Corners Historic District	Stafford	District	1976
Tyron, Augustus S., House	Le Roy	Building	2013
US Post Office-Le Roy	Le Roy	Building	1989

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Genesee was formed in 1802 (1802-03-30) from Ontario.

GENESEE created from ONTARIO.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Genesee County population from 1810 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1810	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
12,588	58,093	59,587	32,189	32,806	34,561	37,976	44,481	47,584	53,994	59,400	60,370	58,388

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site	National Historic Site	56.5 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

66 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 66 of 66 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Alabama Cemetery	43.10314	-78.39151
Alexander Cemetery	42.89905	-78.24891
Batavia Cemetery	42.99339	-78.17085
Bethany Cemetery	42.90835	-78.13411
Broadway Road Cemetery	42.90038	-78.41929
Buell Cemetery	42.97995	-77.94854
Byron Cemetery	43.08013	-78.05747
Cary Cemetery	43.067	-78.27569
Darien Cemetery	42.90253	-78.36083
Daws Corners Cemetery	43.04432	-78.18602
East Bergen Cemetery	43.11025	-77.93413
East Bethany Cemetery	42.93314	-78.10157
East Oakfield Cemetery	43.09798	-78.24583
Elmwood Cemetery	42.99065	-78.1725
Evergreen Hill Cemetery	42.96595	-78.40804
Fairview Cemetery	42.91234	-78.02122
Fargo Road Pioneer Cemetery	42.98518	-78.11387
Fort Hill Cemetery	43.02067	-77.97077
Four Corners Cemetery	43.05905	-78.44187
Gardner Cemetery	43.09942	-78.2299
Grand View Cemetery	42.99953	-78.15159
Hillside Cemetery	42.98516	-78.33003
Indian Falls Cemetery	43.02033	-78.39592
Jug City Cemetery	42.95934	-78.02602
Langworthy Cemetery	43.0049	-78.01423
Machpelah Cemetery	42.9878	-77.98257
Maple Hill Cemetery	42.9434	-78.338
Maple Lawn Cemetery	42.907	-77.98167
Maple Lawn Cemetery	43.07894	-78.19015
Maple Lawn Cemetery	42.90868	-78.13408
Morganville Cemetery	43.00687	-78.07766
Mount Pleasant Cemetery	42.95366	-78.23251
Mount Rest Cemetery	43.07721	-77.9475
Myrtle Street Cemetery	42.97587	-77.99705
Newkirk Cemetery	43.04445	-78.13821
Nichols Cemetery	43.09651	-78.32524
North Bergen Cemetery	43.12162	-77.98673
North Byron Cemetery	43.10798	-78.0653
North Pembroke Cemetery	43.025	-78.33571
Oatka Valley Cemetery	42.87828	-78.02401
Old Buffalo Road Cemetery	42.993	-78.3909
Our Lady of Good Counsel Cemetery	42.89617	-78.38534
Pine Hill Cemetery	43.08091	-78.18567
Presbyterian Church Cemetery	43.08386	-78.45237
Putnam Cemetery	42.95319	-78.17145
Randall Cemetery	43.00706	-78.04609
Reed Cemetery	43.09648	-78.35853
Ross Cemetery	43.07421	-78.3063
Saint Brigid Catholic Cemetery	43.08342	-77.93174
Saint Cecilia Cemetery	43.0668	-78.27673
Saint Francis Cemetery	42.9692	-77.98566
Saint Joseph Cemetery	42.98771	-78.17061
Saint Marks Cemetery	42.98016	-77.98733
Saint Marys Cemetery	42.87069	-78.02448
Sodom Cemetery	43.05217	-78.09742
Springvale Cemetery	43.0591	-78.14157
Stafford Rural Cemetery	42.97824	-78.07361
Stone Church Rural Cemetery	43.04827	-77.96831
Stone Schoolhouse Cemetery	43.04887	-78.33617
Thwing Cemetery	43.02521	-78.01996
Transit Cemetery	42.8923	-78.07436
Van Allen Cemetery	42.9519	-77.96743
Walker Cemetery	43.03228	-78.08029
Warner Cemetery	43.0075	-78.13722
West Bethany Cemetery	42.91346	-78.19142
West Bethany Rural Cemetery	42.91332	-78.19139

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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