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Lakeville, New York
Lakeville is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Livonia, Livingston County, New York, United States. Its population was 756 as of the 2010 census. Geography Lakeville is in northeastern Livingston County, in the northwestern part of the town of Livonia. It sits at the northern end of Conesus Lake, the westernmost of New York's Finger Lakes, where the lake flows out into Conesus Creek, a northward-flowing tributary of the Genesee River. Lakeville is bordered to the south by the Conesus Lake CDP. U.S. Route 20A passes through the center of Lakeville, leading east to Livonia village and west to Geneseo, the Livingston county seat. New York State Route 15 also passes through the community, leading east to Livonia village with US 20A but turning north up Rochester Road to lead to Interstate 390 and to Rochester. According to the U.S. Census Bureau The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Census-designated Place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such as self-governing city (United States), cities, town (United States), towns, and village (United States), villages, for the purposes of gathering and correlating statistical data. CDPs are populated areas that generally include one officially designated but currently unincorporated area, unincorporated community, for which the CDP is named, plus surrounding inhabited countryside of varying dimensions and, occasionally, other, smaller unincorporated communities as well. CDPs include small rural communities, Edge city, edge cities, colonia (United States), colonias located along the Mexico–United States border, and unincorporated resort and retirement community, retirement communities and their environs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conesus Lake
Conesus Lake is located in Livingston County, New York. Conesus Lake is one of New York's twelve Finger Lakes. It is located off Interstate 390 about south of Interstate 90. Description Conesus Lake is long, with a maximum depth of . It flows south to north, from its inlet in the Town of Conesus to its outlet, Conesus Creek, in Lakeville, a hamlet in the Town of Livonia in Livingston County. Conesus Creek in turn flows into the Genesee River near Avon. The first steamboat on Conesus Lake was named the "Jessie" launched July 1, 1874, after the Civil War. In August 2006, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation confirmed that the lake was the first outside the contiguous Great Lakes waterways to be stricken with a new strain of viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS), an infectious fish disease responsible for mass die-offs of many species, but not linked to any human health concerns. The disease is spread between waterways through live or frozen ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamlets In New York (state)
A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. This is often simply an informal description of a smaller settlement or possibly a subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. Sometimes a hamlet is defined for official or Administrative division, administrative purposes. The word and concept of a hamlet can be traced back to Anglo-Normans, Norman England, where the Old French came to apply to small human settlements. Etymology The word comes from Anglo-Norman language, Anglo-Norman ', corresponding to Old French ', the diminutive of Old French ' meaning a little village. This, in turn, is a diminutive of Old French ', possibly borrowed from (West Germanic languages, West Germanic) Franconian languages. It is related to the modern French ', Dutch language, Dutch ', Frisian languages, Frisian ', German ', Old English ', and Modern English ''home''. By country Afghanistan In Afghanistan, the counterpart of the hamlet is the Qila, qala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rochester, New York
Rochester is a city in and the county seat, seat of government of Monroe County, New York, United States. It is the List of municipalities in New York, fourth-most populous city and 10th most-populated municipality in New York, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city forms the core of the larger Rochester metropolitan area, New York, Rochester metropolitan area in Western New York, with a population of just over 1 million residents. Throughout its history, Rochester has acquired several nicknames based on local industries; it has been known as "History of Rochester, New York#Rochesterville and The Flour City, the Flour City" and "History of Rochester, New York#The Flower City, the Flower City" for its dual role in flour production and floriculture, and as the "World's Image Center" for its association with film, optics, and photography. The city was one of the United States' first boomtowns, initially due to the fertile Genesee River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interstate 390
Interstate 390 (I-390) is a north–south auxiliary Interstate Highway located entirely within New York (state), New York in the United States. The southern terminus of the route is at the Southern Tier Expressway (Interstate 86 in New York, I-86 and New York State Route 17, or NY 17) in the town of Avoca (town), New York, Avoca. Its northern terminus is at Interstate 490 (New York), I-490 (Western Expressway) in Gates, New York, Gates, just west of Rochester, New York, Rochester. North of I-490, the expressway continues as New York State Route 390, NY 390 to the Lake Ontario State Parkway in Greece (town), New York, Greece. I-390 connects to its parent, Interstate 90 in New York, I-90 (New York State Thruway), in Henrietta, New York, Henrietta, a southern suburb of Rochester. The route is known as the Genesee Expressway from Avoca to Interstate 590, I-590 in Brighton, Monroe County, New York, Brighton, where it becomes part of the Rochester Outer Loop. In additio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York State Route 15
New York State Route 15 (NY 15) is a north–south state highway located in western New York in the United States. The southern terminus of the route is officially at Interstate 390 (I-390) exit 3 south of the Wayland (village), New York, village of Wayland, although some signage indicating that NY 15 continues south to the northern terminus of U.S. Route 15 in New York, U.S. Route 15 (US 15) in Painted Post, New York, Painted Post still exists. The northern terminus of NY 15 is at an intersection with New York State Route 31, NY 31 in downtown Rochester, New York, Rochester. Outside of Monroe County, New York, Monroe County, NY 15 is a rural two-lane highway. In the Rochester suburbs of Henrietta, New York, Henrietta and Brighton, Monroe County, New York, Brighton, however, NY 15 is a major commercial strip, and the section in Rochester is a two-to-four lane street that serves commercial and residential areas. From Lakevil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Seat
A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equivalent term, shire town, is used in the U.S. state of Vermont and in several other English-speaking jurisdictions. Canada In Canada, the Provinces and territories of Canada, provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia have counties as an administrative division of government below the provincial level, and thus county seats. In the provinces of Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, the term "shire town" is used in place of county seat. China County seats in China are the administrative centers of the counties in the China, People's Republic of China. They have existed since the Warring States period and were set up nationwide by the Qin dynasty. The number of counties in China proper g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneseo (village), New York
Geneseo is a village in and the county seat of Livingston County in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States, south of Rochester. The name "Geneseo" is an anglicization of the Iroquois name for the earlier Iroquois town there, ''Gen-nis-he-yo'', which means "beautiful valley". The village of Geneseo lies within the western part of the town of Geneseo at the junction of State Routes 39 and 63 with U.S. Route 20A. The village's population was 8,031 at the 2010 census, out of 10,483 in the town. The United States Department of the Interior designated part of the village—the Geneseo Historic District—a National Historic Landmark in 1991. History The town of Geneseo was established in 1789, before the formation of Livingston County. Settlement began shortly after James and William Wadsworth arrived in 1790. The brothers came to the Genesee Valley from Connecticut as agents of their uncle, Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth, to care for and sell the land he purch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Livonia (village), New York
Livonia is a village in the town of Livonia, Livingston County, New York, United States. U.S. Route 20A and Route 15 intersect in the village. The population was 1,409 at the 2010 census, out of 7,809 in the entire town. Geography Livonia is located in northeastern Livingston County at (42.820009, -77.668176), slightly west of the geographic center of the town of Livonia. Unincorporated Livonia Center is to the east, and Lakeville, another unincorporated hamlet in the town, is to the west on Route 20A. Geneseo, the Livingston county seat, is to the west, and Rochester is to the north. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Wilkins Creek, a tributary of Conesus Lake to the west, flows across the southwestern part of the village, and Little Conesus Creek rises in the northern part of the village. The entire village is within the Genesee River watershed. History The region was the territory for centuries of the Seneca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conesus Lake, New York
Conesus Lake is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Livingston County, New York, United States. Its population was 2,584 as of the 2010 census. The community is located in the towns of Geneseo, Livonia, Groveland, and Conesus and covers Conesus Lake, the westernmost of New York's Finger Lakes, and nearly all of the lake's shoreline communities. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the community has an area of ; of its area is land, and are water. It is bordered to the north by the hamlet of Lakeville at the lake's outlet in the town of Livonia. New York State Route 256 (West Lake Road) follows the western shore of the lake, and East Lake Road runs along the eastern side. The lake is long from north to south, with an east-west width of about , while the CDP measures slightly over from north to south and about from east to west. Geneseo, the Livingston county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genesee River
The Genesee River ( ) is a tributary of Lake Ontario flowing northward through the Twin Tiers of Pennsylvania and New York (state), New York in the United States. The river contains several waterfalls in New York at Letchworth State Park and Rochester, New York, Rochester. The river was historically used as a border between the lands of the Seneca people, Seneca to the east and the Erie people, Erie and Wenrohronon, Wenro to the west. Later, the river provided the original power for the Rochester area's 19th century mills, and still provides hydroelectric power for downtown Rochester. Flooding occurred periodically in the river valley before construction of the Mount Morris Dam in the 1950s. Geology The Genesee is the remaining western branch of Glacial geology of the Genesee River, a preglacial system, with rock layers tilted an average of 40 feet (12 m) per mile, so the river flows across progressively older bedrock as it flows northward. It begins in exposing the Allegheny P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
