Chaumont (/ʃəˈmoʊ/ shə-MOH)[citation needed] is a village in Jefferson County, New York, United States.

[3] The village is named for Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont, son of Benjamin Franklin's landlord and friend at Passy in France.

In 1750, Ray had bought the Chaumont castle (named from the Old French for "bald hill", and built in two periods around 1500) in the Loire Valley of France.

(As of 2009[update], the village near it is called Chaumont-sur-Loire to distinguish it from the many other Chaumonts in France.)

The first European-descended settlement of the village began in 1802, replacing an unsatisfactory site chosen the previous year.

[4] The economy of the early village was based on fishing and ship building.

[5] Chaumont is in the west-central part of Jefferson County, in the northeastern portion of the town of Lyme.

County Route 179 (Evans Street) enters the village from the northeast and leads 6 miles (10 km) to Depauville.

Snowfall is well above the United States average in the months of October through April, reaching 28 to 30 inches (710 to 760 mm) in January.