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Seneca County, New York
The Seneca County Courthouse Complex at Ovid (August 2017) — CC BY-SA 4.0, marjobani · source

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About Seneca County

Seneca County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 33,814. The primary county seat is Waterloo, moved there from the original county seat of Ovid in 1819. It became a two-shire county in 1822, which currently remains in effect and uses both locations as county seats although the majority of Seneca County administrative offices are located in Waterloo. Therefore, most political sources list only Waterloo as the county seat. The county's name comes from the Seneca Nation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), who occupied part of the region. The county is part of the Finger Lakes region of the state.

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Facts

Seneca County at a glance

County seat
Waterloo
Population
33,814 (2020)
Land area
325 sq mi
Founded
1804

Communities

Largest communities in Seneca County

  1. Geneva12,812
  2. Seneca Falls9,027
  3. Waterloo County seat7,378
  4. Fayette3,657
  5. Romulus3,203

Background

History of Seneca County

The area covered by Seneca County straddles the prehistoric territories of both Seneca and Cayuga Nations of the Haudenosaunee. This county was reduced in size on July 3, 1766, by the creation of Cumberland County, and further on March 16, 1770, by the creation of Gloucester County, both containing territory now in Vermont. On March 12, 1772, what was left of Albany County was split into three parts, one remaining under the name Albany County. One of the other pieces, Tryon County, contained the western portion (and thus, since no western boundary was specified, theoretically still extended west to the Pacific). The eastern boundary of Tryon County was approximately five miles west of the present city of Schenectady, and the county included the western part of the Adirondack Mountains and the area west of the West Branch of the Delaware River.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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