Located in the Finger Lakes region, Hall has a fire department[2] and a post office with a downtown zip code of 14463, though the urbanized area extends beyond this.

Of the 97 housing units in the hamlet, 12 were vacant and the median household income was $74,861,[7] reflective of its relatively robust economy.

[6] Hall and the surrounding area were settled and cleared, mostly as farmland, around the turn of the 19th century, with a wave of migration from England.

The hamlet, which was originally established as Hall's Corners,[8] was informally known as "the English settlement.

"[9] Starting in the mid-19th century, Hall had a station on a since removed section of line of the now defunct Elmira Rail Road Company, a subsidiary of the Northern Central Railroad.