THE LIVINGSTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Finger Lakes Uplands and Gorges setting.
Livingston County has 631.7 square miles of land in New York. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Livingston County: Finger Lakes Uplands and Gorges, Ontario Lowlands, Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau.
Rolling hills, broad valleys and low mountains are mantled by glacial deposits. Sandstone, shale and siltstone underlie a mix of open land and woodland across the northern plateau.
Regional context: Northern Allegheny Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Livingston County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Finger Lakes Uplands and Gorges44.1%
- Ontario Lowlands43.5%
- Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau12.3%
Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands in Livingston County
Glacially shaped lowlands and irregular plains border the Great Lakes and adjacent hills. The lakes influence regional weather, while local landforms reflect both glacial deposits and former shorelines.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Livingston County
The atlas lists 52 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Livingston County, including Springwater, Mount Morris, York. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Livingston County by land and water
The Census records 8.52 square miles of water within Livingston County, or 1.3% of its total area. That share is close to Livingston County’s 1.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Livingston County has 16.1 times the land area of nearby Groveland town (39.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Allegany County, Genesee County, Monroe County, Ontario County, Steuben County, Wyoming County within New York. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

