The Town of Varick is located in the central part of the county and is southeast of Geneva.

The primary postal district covering the area is Zip Code 14541 for Romulus.

[6] The land that is now the Town of Varick was occupied by the Cayuga and Seneca tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy before European settlement.

[7] The Sullivan Expedition of 1779 passed through the town to destroy villages of the Cayuga and Seneca tribes.

Over the years since 1985, Varick has become home to five wineries, all closer to the eastern end of the town, along Cayuga Lake.

(All but Lakeshore Winery are participating members of the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail, and while the Seneca Lake Wine Trail certainly runs through Varick, none of its stops quite fall within its town lines.)

The Simon Ritter Cobblestone Farmhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

Farmland on the eastern slope to Cayuga Lake is largely devoted to wine grapes.

[11] NOTE: It is common for resort communities to have higher than normal vacant house counts.