Ovid, NY

Ovid is a village in Seneca County, New York, United States. The 2010 census counted 602 residents. The town was named by a clerk interested in the classics. The Village of Ovid is within Ovid, but a small portion is in Romulus, and is southeast of Geneva, New York. The through line in Ovid is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Ovid makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. 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. The village is in the Finger Lakes District, lying between Cayuga Lake and Seneca Lake.