Victor is an incorporated town in Ontario County, New York. The population was 15,969 at the period of the 2020 census. The town is named after Claudius Victor Boughton, an American hero of the War of 1812.

The Town of Victor contains a village, also called Victor. The town is in the northwest corner of Ontario County and is southeast of Rochester. Victor is allowance of the Greater Rochester area; Victor’s strategic location led to extensive suburban accumulation in the late 20th and in front 21st century. Victor is the largest of Rochester’s suburbs to be located uncovered of Monroe County, the house of beyond two-thirds of the Greater Rochester population. The Village of Victor is 12 miles (19 km) from the head of Canandaigua Lake, the fourth largest of the Finger Lakes.

An important Seneca village, known as Gannagaro or Ganondagan, was located within the Place of this town. The tribe lonesome the village and the Place about it after being intensely attacked in 1687 by French invaders from Canada. They were infuriating to run the lucrative fur trade.

In 2015, New York opened a museum and cultural center upon the grounds of the Ganondagan State Historic Site, established in 1987. The Seneca Art & Culture Center at Ganondagan will use art, history and education, drawn from oral history, written documents, and archeological evidence, to say the tally of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people, and specifically the Seneca nation. It is the deserted publicly funded let in historic site devoted to the Haudenosaunee. It has both Haudenosaunee and Non-Native American staff and volunteers. It gives a prominent role to Jigonhsasee, the Iroquoian woman credited as one of the founders of the Confederacy.