Elmira Heights is a village in Chemung County, New York, United States.

The Elmira Heights Village Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

[4] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.15 square miles (2.97 km2), all land.

The Southern Tier Expressway (Interstate 86 and New York State Route 17) passes east of the village on the far side of the Newtown Creek valley.

The closest expressway access is from Horseheads to the north or Elmira to the south.

Benefit dances, card parties, and social gatherings were held and things went fine until it was time to divide the money.

This rivalry and animosity continued until one night a new fire chief, tired of the bickering, ordered the door to be opened between the parlors of the two companies.

Although the roster remains all-volunteer, the Village funds a 24/365 "Paid First Responder" program.

This is a private, not for profit social entity that supports the department from within the all-volunteer roster.

The Elmira Heights Fire Company solely funds the department EMS program.

In 2011, the Elmira Heights Fire Company began a program encouraging the local public to donate their empty deposit cans and bottles.

One being a quick response EMS apparatus and also a wild land "brush" suppression vehicle.

Elmira Heights was once the location of the Ward LaFrance Truck Corporation's manufacturing facility.

[7] The Elmira Heights Police Department is a small full-service agency consisting of a force of eleven men which offers 24/7 police protection to the village of Elmira Heights.