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Geneseo, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Geneseo town. It lies in ZIP code area 14454. The Survey maps it on the Geneseo quadrangle. 7,574 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 909 feet above sea level.

Geneseo within Livingston County

Then and now

1904 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Geneseo, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Geneseo, surveyed 1904

On record in Geneseo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 5 records

Population over time

3 figures

Geneseo fell from 7,579 to 7,574 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20007,579
20108,031+452 (+6%)
20207,574-457 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

162 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Geneseo between 2000 and 2020, burning about 188 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 50 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Arson/incendiarism50
Smoking30
Natural10
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Geneseo: 5 producers, 4 past producers, 1 plant. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Halite, Potassium, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Highway Dept. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Reynolds QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Old Retsof ShaftHalite, Potassium, Gypsum-AnhydriteProducer1884
Retsof MineHalite, Potassium, Gypsum-AnhydriteProducer1884
Fuller ShaftSaltProducer
Geo.F.Hudson WellSaltPast Producer
Livingston Salt Co.Well No.1SaltPast Producer
Phoenix Salt WellSaltPast Producer
Retsof Shaft & MillSaltPlant
Sterling Salt Shaft No.1SaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Geneseo in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$50,000Multiple large trees were downed across a large swath of Geneseo.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$50,000Downed trees littered the length of Route 20A east of Geneseo.
May 2016Flash FloodGeneseo$20,000Heavy rain washed out a culvert on North Lima Road.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$20,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$20,000no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$12,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines near Geneseo.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$12,000no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Eagle Point Road.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$10,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$10,000no account filed
November 2005HailGeneseo$10,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$10,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$5,000Trees and wires downed in Geneseo.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$4,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$2,000Trees and wires downed in Geneseo.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$2,000Trees and powerlines were reported down along Country Club Road and Lima Road.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$2,000Several trees were reported down throughout town.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$2,000Trees and wires were reported down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindGeneseo$500A tree was reported down onto Country Club Road.
June 2025Flash FloodGeneseo-Lima Road closed due to flash flooding.
June 2025Flash FloodGeneseo-Video on social media showing water flowing across roads and up to homes along a street in downtown Geneseo.

Every storm recorded in Livingston County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Piffard2.9 miles24
Cuylerville3.1 miles24
Teed Corners4.2 miles23
Retsof4.3 miles23
Leicester4.5 miles23
Wadsworth4.5 miles23
Shaker Crossing4.6 miles21
Greigsville4.9 miles23

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on GeneseoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12058441The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950998. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.