Bath is a village in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 5,786 at the 2010 census. Bath is the county seat of Steuben County. The community was named either for the English city of Bath, Somerset, or for Lady Laura Pulteney, 1st Countess of Bath and daughter of Sir William Pulteney, one of the original landowners.
The Village of Bath is in the Town of Bath and is northwest of Elmira and is west of Tyrone.
Bath is the location of the Bath VA Medical Center, Bath National Cemetery, and the Steuben County Fair, the oldest continuous fair in the United States.