Painted Post is a village in Steuben County, New York. The village is in the town of Erwin, west of the city of Corning. The population was 1,809 at the 2010 census. The post comes from a Seneca carved name found by explorers at the junction of three local rivers.
Corning-Painted Post Airport (7N1) is west of the village.

The former Town of Painted Post in 1836 was renamed the Town of Corning.

The Senecas never had a painted reveal but rather the broadcast that existed in the Painted Post Place was not “painted”. The plain reveal had been used as a type of bulletin board and when the white settlers moved into the area they painted it. To paint this publish was desecration to the Seneca people. The Seneca language word for the area was TKäen DōD, meaning “Land of the post”.

According to village records, Painted Post was time-honored as a village in 1803. The Erwin brothers are considered the first rich European descended settlers to have fixed in the Painted Post area in the late 18th century (Painted Post village is in the town of Erwin, named for the brothers and incorporated in 1796). The brothers’ 4 mansions are still standing. There are maps in existence archaic 1796 which supplement Painted Post. The village was first incorporated in 1860 and officially re-incorporated in 1893. The read out is derived from an historic, although probably unpainted, wooden publicize seen in the Place at the fall of the 18th century. The parentage and plan of the herald remain controversial. A glyph of the declare is visible on the aforementioned 1796 map.