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Jordan is a village in the northwest part of the town of Elbridge, Onondaga County, west of Syracuse, and it was named after the Jordan River.

The first house within the present village boundaries was built in 1797, and a mill was erected on Skaneateles Creek by 1800 to power the village's early industries.

Jordan boomed as one of the earliest sections of the Erie Canal was built through it — when the canal opened in October 1825, its route ran right through the middle of the village along present-day Clinton and Mechanic streets, past the original Lock 59.

Jordan was incorporated as a village in 1835, and thanks to the canal it grew larger than the neighboring village of Elbridge to the south.

The stone Jordan Aqueduct still stands where the enlarged Erie Canal crossed Skaneateles Creek, and the old canal path through the village has been turned into a park; the canal era ended in 1918 when the New York State Barge Canal bypassed Jordan via the Seneca River.

In 1983, much of the village was included in the Jordan Village Historic District and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1865, as Abraham Lincoln's funeral train passed through Jordan, a cannonball was fired in the president's honor and lodged in a tree on a local farm; when the tree was cut down in 1935, the ball was found fully engulfed in the wood.

The 2020 census counted 1,192 people in Jordan, down 12.9% from 2010, and at the 2000 census the village had 499 households.

Skaneateles Creek — whose water once fed the canal through the Jordan Feeder from Skaneateles Lake, about twelve miles away — still flows through the village.

Jordan's children attend the Jordan-Elbridge Central School District, and folk artist and abolitionist Sheldon Peck is among the village's notable former residents.