Finger Lakes
Mendon, New York
Mendon is a town in Monroe County, in New York's Finger Lakes region, home to about 9,100 people as of the 2020 census.
Eleven glacial lakes lined with waterfalls, gorges, and the state's biggest wine country. Mendon sits in that part of the state.
- Type
- Town
- County
- Monroe
- Region
- Finger Lakes
- Population (2020)
- 9,095
Local Almanac
Notes in and around Mendon
Short, sourced notes tied to this place, its county, or nearby communities.
This place · The Outdoors
Mendon Ponds Gives the Town a Glacial Signature
Mendon combines rolling farm country with a county park famous for glacial landforms and a large nature preserve.
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Victor Begins at Ganondagan
Ganondagan gives Victor a Seneca town landscape of longhouse interpretation, trail memory, and Haudenosaunee history.
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Pittsford's Village Shape Arrived by Canal
Pittsford's canal arrival helps explain its preserved Federal-period village buildings and towpath-centered identity.
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Lima keeps a village-and-town identity in Livingston County
Lima's local story comes from the paired town and village layers, rural roads, and local government south of Monroe County.
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Henrietta Moves From West Woods to Campus
Henrietta's story connects West Woods settlement, Tinker Homestead, preserved farm memory, and RIT's move to a town campus.
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Victor Village Has a Rail Bed Under Its Trail Habit
Victor's Auburn Trail turns an old railroad corridor into a village-edge walking and biking habit.
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Rush keeps Monroe County's creek-and-farm edge visible
Rush sits on Monroe County's southern edge, where creek country, farms, and town-scale government feel different from Rochester shorthand.
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Victor building permits split between town and village sources
Victor residents should check whether a building-permit question belongs to the town or village before using a form.
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West Bloomfield's older story follows Honeoye Creek and Routes 5 and 20
West Bloomfield's story runs through Seneca fields, Honeoye Creek, early schools and churches, and the Routes 5 and 20 corridor.
Read this note ->Property tax snapshot
Roughly $24–$26 per $1,000
Combined full-value rate — county + town/city + school district, per $1,000 of market value (FY2025). On a $300,000 home that's about $7,292–$7,845 a year before the STAR break.
A planning estimate, not a bill. Your exact rate depends on your school district and any village. Confirm with the assessor.
Statewide links
Statewide starting points.
Good to know
- • Your assessed value usually isn't your market value — ask for the equalization rate.
- • Register for STAR; new applicants generally receive a credit instead of an automatic exemption on the bill.
- • Outside the cities, check the well, the septic, and the FEMA flood map before you buy.
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Tax rates: NYS Dept of Taxation & Finance (ORPTS), Real Property Tax Rates and Levy Data by Municipality, data.ny.gov dataset iq85-sdzs. (FY2025). Population: U.S. Census 2020. Reviewed June 2026. Source data ->
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