Florida, New York, United States

🇺🇸 Florida is a village in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 3,049 as of the 2020 census. It is part of the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area. The village is located in the town of Warwick, with two small northern portions in the town of Goshen. Florida is at the convergence of Routes 17A and 94.

Florida has its own school district known as the Florida Union Free School District. The district consists of Golden Hill Elementary School and S. S. Seward Institute. The mascot for S.S. Seward Institute is a Spartan.

The current mayor is Daniel Harter, Jr., who was elected in March 2018.

History The area had been occupied by indigenous peoples for thousands of years.

The part of the Wawayanda Patent which contained the present day village was known as the Florida Tract. The initial settlement on the site was known as Brookland but was given its current name in the 1760s. It was incorporated in 1946.

Florida is in a farming area known for the vast onion fields in the nearby Black Dirt Region.

Local radio station, WTBQ was located in Florida from 1984 to 2007, on Main Street, in the white professional bldg, across from Seward High School. The station is currently located two miles south of the Village of Warwick.

Geography The village is west of Glenmere Lake and east of Warwick.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km²), all land.