Ovid Map
Ovid is a village in and one of the two county seats of Seneca County, New York, United States. The population was 612 at the 2000 census. The town was named by a clerk interested in the classics (see Ovid).
The Village of Ovid is within the Town of Ovid and is southeast of Geneva, New York.
Ovid and the surrounding area was part the lands controlled by the Iroquois. The Sullivan Expedition of 1779 drove away or killed many of these natives to reduce their raiding in support of the British. After the American Revolution the village was in the Central New York Military Tract, used to compensate soldiers.
Nearby cities include Penn Yan, Trumansburg, Dundee, Union Springs, Keuka Park.