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Sheriff of Ontario County, New York

Ontario County, New York
Ontario County Courthouse, Canandaigua, NY.jpg
Ontario County Courthouse in Canandaigua, 2014
Seal of Ontario County, New York
Seal
Map of New York highlighting Ontario County
Location in the U.S. state of New York
Map of the United States highlighting New York
New York's location in the U.S.
Founded 1789
Named for Lake Ontario
Seat Canandaigua
Largest city Geneva
Area
 • Total 663 sq mi (1,717 km2)
 • Land 644 sq mi (1,668 km2)
 • Water 18 sq mi (47 km2), 2.8%
Population
 • (2010) 107,931
 • Density 168/sq mi (65/km²)
Congressional districts 23rd, 27th
Time zone Eastern: UTC-5/-4
Website www.co.ontario.ny.us

Coordinates: 42°51′N 77°17′W / 42.85°N 77.29°W / 42.85; -77.29

Ontario County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 107,931. The county seat is Canandaigua.

Ontario County is part of the Rochester, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area.

In 2006, Progressive Farmer rated Ontario County as the "Best Place to Live" in the U.S., for its "great schools, low crime, excellent health care" and its proximity to Rochester.

This area was long controlled by the Seneca people, one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, or Haudenosaunee. They were forced to cede most of their land to the United States after the American Revolutionary War.

When the English established counties in New York Province in 1683, they designated Albany County as including all the northern part of New York State, the present State of Vermont, and, in theory, extending westward to the Pacific Ocean. On July 3, 1766 Cumberland County was organized, and on March 16, 1770 Gloucester County was founded, both containing territory now included in the state of Vermont. The English claims were their assertion; the Five and then Six Nations of the Iroquois occupied and controlled most of the territory in central and western New York until after the Revolutionary War.


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