Official Name: | Busti, New York |
Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
Pushpin Map: | New York |
Pushpin Label: | Busti |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within the state of New York |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | USA |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | New York |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Chautauqua |
Subdivision Type3: | Town |
Subdivision Name3: | Busti |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 5.86 |
Area Land Km2: | 5.86 |
Area Water Km2: | 0.00 |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 2.26 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 2.26 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.00 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 349 |
Population Density Km2: | 59.52 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 154.15 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 1368 |
Coordinates: | 42.0381°N -79.2833°W |
Area Code: | 716 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 36-11440 |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 0945336 |
Busti is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Busti in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. The population was 391 at the 2010 census,[2] out of a total population in the town of 7,351.
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 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 5miles 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, part of the Allegheny River watershed. According to the United States Census Bureau, the community has a total area of 5.9km2, all land.[2]