Livingston County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 65,393.[1] It is named after Robert R. Livingston, delegate to the 1775 Continental Congress, member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and father-in-law of Richard Montgomery, after whom Montgomery County (and similarly named counties in many other states) were named. Its county seat is Geneseo.
Livingston County is part of the Rochester, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Livingston County is located in the Finger Lakes region, south of Rochester and east of Buffalo.
Letchworth State Park in partly in the western part of the county. The Genesee River flows northward through the county.
The Rochester and Southern Railroad (RSR) traverses the county from Greigsville south thru Mount Morris to Dansville.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 640 square miles (1,700 km2), of which 632 square miles (1,640 km2) is land and 8 square miles (21 km2) (1.30%) is water.
