Busti is a

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...

and

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in the town of Busti in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. The population was 391 at the 2010 census, out of a total population in the town of 7,351.

Geography

Busti hamlet is located east of the geographic center of the town of Busti, well south of the main settlements in the town, which are along

Chautauqua Lake Chautauqua Lake is located entirely within Chautauqua County, New York, United States. The lake is approximately long and wide at its greatest width. The surface area is approximately . The maximum depth is about . The shoreline is about of w ...

in the north. The hamlet is centered on a five-way intersection of Busti-Sugar Grove Road (departing southwest), Mill Road (southeast), Busti-Stillwater Road (east), Forest Avenue (northeast), and Southwestern Drive (northwest). The city of Jamestown is to the northeast up Forest Avenue. The hamlet sits in a valley on the north side of Stillwater Creek, an east-flowing tributary of

Conewango Creek Conewango Creek is a tributary of the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania and western New York in the United States. The creek's drainage covers much of southeastern Chautauqua County, New York, and western Cattaraugus County, New York. The creek's ...

, part of the Allegheny River watershed. According to the

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, the community has a total area of , all land.

Demographics

References

{{authority control Hamlets in New York (state) Census-designated places in New York (state) Census-designated places in Chautauqua County, New York Hamlets in Chautauqua County, New York