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

[4] The village is named after the pioneer family of Abner Wells (1737–1797) who came from Southold on Long Island.

Christ Episcopal Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

Catholics attended services in a church about 18 miles (29 km) across the Pennsylvania border (Centerville or Bentley Creek).

The village contained two bars, two grocery stores (Aber and Stanton), Dalton's meat market, two gas stations, a "creamery", an Erie Railroad depot, Dalton's coal yard, a deteriorated Hotel Alcazar, a post office, and Schuyler's Feed, Grain & Lumber Yard.

Wellsburg had a mayor and a constable; the latter being rather "adept" at catching those who overturned outhouses during Halloween.

[citation needed] Occasionally the Chemung River would overflow, usually flooding the short road between Wellsburg and Lowman, but it once flooded Wellsburg to the extent that rowboats could enter the Methodist church.

During the WWII years, students aged 14 and up were allowed days off from school to help local farmers harvest their crops.

Bentley Creek flows northward through the village to the Chemung River and was a power source to early pioneers.