According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6 km2), all land.

The region was the territory for centuries of the Seneca people, one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois confederacy.

The British ceded their territory to the United States without consulting with the Iroquois nations.

Many of the Iroquois Native Americans were forced violently from the state, and settled primarily on a major reserve in Ontario.

Woodruff built a rough cabin, cleared a field, and planted his first crop of potatoes before returning to Connecticut for his family.

The town developed between Conesus and Hemlock lakes, and was largely settled in the mid-19th century by ethnic European Americans from New England and New York.

The construction of a railway line in the 1850s to Lakeville increased business opportunities and travel through the region.

The Livonia Baptist Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.