Parishville is the primary

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 a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...

(CDP) in the town of Parishville in

St. Lawrence County, New York St. Lawrence County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 108,505. The county seat is Canton. The county is named for the Saint Lawrence River, which in turn was named for the Christian saint L ...

, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 647, out of 2,153 in the entire town of Parishville. The community is in eastern St. Lawrence County, on the eastern side of the town of Parishville. The eastern edge of the CDP is the town border with Hopkinton.

New York State Route 72 New York State Route 72 (NY 72) is a state highway in the North Country of New York in the United States. The road is an east–west highway located entirely within the eastern part of St. Lawrence County. The western terminus of ...

runs through Parishville, leading northeast to State Route 11B in Hopkinton and northwest to

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. The West Branch of the

St. Regis River The St. Regis River (or rivière Saint-Régis in Quebec) is an river in northern New York in the United States. It flows into the Saint Lawrence River at the hamlet of Saint Regis in the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation. The Saint Regis River ...

passes through the community, dropping over a dam in the center of the village and falling in elevation in less than one mile as it continues to Allen Falls Reservoir downstream. The West Branch joins the St. Regis River at Winthrop and is part of the

St. Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connecting ...

watershed.

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Census-designated places in St. Lawrence County, New York Census-designated places in New York (state) {{StLawrenceCountyNY-geo-stub