title: Wadsworth, New York
text: # Wadsworth, New York
  
  Wadsworth is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of York, Livingston County, New York, United States. Its population was 190 as of the 2010 census. New York State Route 36 passes through the community.
  
  ## Geography
  
  Wadsworth is in northwestern Livingston County, in the southern part of the town of York. It is bordered to the north by the hamlet of Greigsville. NY 36, Wadsworth's Main Street, leads north through Greigsville 3.5 miles (5.6 km) to the hamlet of York and south the same distance to Leicester. Geneseo, the Livingston county seat, is 5 miles (8 km) east of Wadsworth.
  
  According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Wadsworth CDP has an area of 0.5 square miles (1.3 $km^2),$ all land. The area around Wadsworth drains south to Beards Creek, an eastward-flowing tributary of the Genesee River.
  
  