Starkey, New York

Starkey is a town in Yates County, New York, United States. The population was 3,573 at the 2010 census. The town is in the southeastern section of the county and is south of Geneva.

Starkey may have been settled around 1798, but a scouting party of the Sullivan Expedition of 1779, found an occupied cabin north of Glenora.

The town became part of the county in 1824, the year after Yates County was created, and was formed from the town of Reading (in Schuyler County).

The Thomas Bennett Curtis House, William Swortz House, Crescent Methodist Episcopal Church, John Noyes House, Starkey United Methodist Church, Daniel Supplee Cobblestone Farmhouse, and Dr. Henry Spence Cobblestone Farmhouse and Barn Complex are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 39.3 square miles (102 km²), of which 32.8 square miles (85 km²) is land and 6.4 square miles (17 km²) (16.40%) is water.

The southern town line and part of the eastern town boundary are the border of Schuyler County, and the remainder of the eastern town line, marked by Seneca Lake, is the border of Seneca County. Starkey is in the Finger Lakes Region of New York.

New York State Route 14 and New York State Route 14A are major north-south highways.

As of the census of 2000, there were 3,465 people, 1,243 households, and 856 families residing in the town. The population density was 105.5 inhabitants per square mile (40.7/km²). There were 1,624 housing units at an average density of 49.5 per square mile (19.1/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 97.03% White, 1.15% African American, 0.09% Native American, 0.46% Asian, 0.40% from other races, and 0.87% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.36% of the population.