Florida is a village in Orange County, New York, United States.
The district consists of Golden Hill Elementary School and S. S. Seward Institute.
[citation needed] The part of the Wawayanda Patent which contained the present day village was known as the Florida Tract.
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 S.S. Seward.
[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km2), all land.
They followed earlier settlers who were mostly migrants from New England, arriving after the Native American population had declined.