Starkey is a town in Yates County, New York, United States.

[3] 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 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.

24.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.