Piffard, NY

Piffard is a census-designated place and hamlet in York, Livingston County, New York, United States. The 2020 census counted 208 residents. Piffard takes its name from David Piffard, an English-born landowner who settled in the Genesee Valley in 1824 and acquired roughly 600 acres in what is now York. Late nineteenth-century county histories state that part of this land later became the settlement that bore his name. Piffard makes sense once you see how its past, landscape, and current gathering spots overlap. The useful thing to know about Piffard is that its older landmarks and current settings belong to one connected place. Piffard is in northwestern Livingston County, in the southeast part of York. Piffard is bordered to the west by the Hamlet of Retsof. Piffard includes the community sits on the western edge of the valley of the Genesee River.