Chautauqua County is a county in New York, United States, at the state’s far western tip on the shore of Lake Erie. It had a population of 127,657 at the 2020 census and covers 1,500 square miles (3,900 km2) centred near 42°18′N 79°25′W.<\/p>\n
Mayville is the county seat, and its postal code is 14757. Jamestown is the largest city. The county contains 2 cities, 27 towns, 12 other villages and 8 census-designated places, and lies in the Eastern time zone.<\/p>\n
Chautauqua County’s two cities, Jamestown and Dunkirk, anchor a county otherwise built from small villages and unincorporated hamlets. The table below lists the county’s cities, its 13 incorporated villages (Ripley dissolved its village charter and now appears as a census-designated place), 8 CDPs, and a further set of long-standing post-office hamlets. Legend: CDP = census-designated place (unincorporated but Census-recognised); Unincorp. = unincorporated hamlet with its own post office but no separate Census designation.<\/p>\n
| Place<\/th>\n | Type<\/th>\n | Pop.<\/th>\n | ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashville<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14710<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Bemus Point<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | 364<\/td>\n | 14712<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Brocton<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | 1,486<\/td>\n | 14716<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Busti<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | 391<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Cassadaga<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | 634<\/td>\n | 14718<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Celoron<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | 1,112<\/td>\n | 14720<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Chautauqua<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | 191<\/td>\n | 14722<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Cherry Creek<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14723<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Clymer<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14724<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Dewittville<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14728<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Dunkirk<\/td>\n | City<\/td>\n | 12,563<\/td>\n | 14048<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Ellington<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14732<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Falconer<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | 2,420<\/td>\n | 14733<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Findley Lake<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14736<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Forestville<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | 697<\/td>\n | 14062<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Fredonia<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | 11,230<\/td>\n | 14063<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Frewsburg<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | 1,906<\/td>\n | 14738<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Gerry<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14740<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Greenhurst<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14742<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Irving<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14081<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Jamestown<\/td>\n | City<\/td>\n | 31,146<\/td>\n | 14701<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Jamestown West<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | 2,408<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Kennedy<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | 465<\/td>\n | 14747<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Lakewood<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | 3,002<\/td>\n | 14750<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Lily Dale<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14752<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Maple Springs<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14756<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Mayville<\/td>\n | Village · seat<\/td>\n | 1,711<\/td>\n | 14757<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Panama<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | 479<\/td>\n | 14767<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Portland<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14769<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Ripley<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | 2,415<\/td>\n | 14775<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Sheridan<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14135<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Sherman<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | 730<\/td>\n | 14781<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Silver Creek<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | 2,656<\/td>\n | 14136<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Sinclairville<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | 588<\/td>\n | 14782<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Stockton<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14784<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Stow<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14785<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Sunset Bay<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | 660<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Van Buren Point<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 14166<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Westfield<\/td>\n | Village<\/td>\n | 3,224<\/td>\n | 14787<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n Chautauqua County is also organised into 27 civil towns, each governing the villages and hamlets within its borders; town-level 2020 population figures were not verified for this page and are omitted rather than estimated.<\/p>\n ZIP Codes<\/h2>\nA further 11 ZIP codes serve the county as post-office-box-only addresses without home delivery, including 14720 (Celoron), 14722 (Chautauqua) and 14752 (Lily Dale); places without their own ZIP share the code of the nearest post-office town.<\/p>\n Geography<\/h2>\nChautauqua County occupies New York’s southwestern corner, with a narrow Lake Erie shoreline in the northwest and rolling, forested uplands rising toward the Allegheny Plateau in the south. Chautauqua Lake, a 13-mile glacial lake that drains south into the Allegheny River system rather than north to Lake Erie, splits the county’s interior and gives Jamestown, Mayville, Lakewood and Bemus Point their waterfront. Cassadaga Creek and the Conewango Creek drain the eastern towns toward the Allegheny.<\/p>\n The county borders Erie County, New York, to the north and northeast; Cattaraugus County to the east; Warren County, Pennsylvania, to the south; and Erie County, Pennsylvania, to the southwest, with Lake Erie forming the northwestern boundary. See Cattaraugus County<\/a>, Warren County, Pennsylvania<\/a> and Erie County, Pennsylvania<\/a> for those neighboring pages.<\/p>\n Chautauqua County had 127,657 residents at the 2020 census. Jamestown, with 31,146 people, and Dunkirk, with 12,563, are its two largest communities, together holding roughly a third of the county’s population. Median household income in the county trails the New York median of $82,095. Population density works out to about 120 people per square mile of land area.<\/p>\n Manufacturing, healthcare and education anchor the local economy, a legacy of Jamestown’s furniture- and metal-working history. SUNY Fredonia and Jamestown Community College are the county’s two public higher-education campuses. The Chautauqua Institution, on Chautauqua Lake near Mayville, draws visitors each summer for its lecture, arts and religious programs and is the county’s best-known cultural institution. Lake Erie’s shoreline towns support a grape-growing and wine industry along the Lake Erie Wine Trail, centred on Westfield and Portland.<\/p>\n Chautauqua County was set off from Genesee County on March 11, 1808, and organized as a functioning county government on February 9, 1811. Its name is believed to be the only surviving word of the Erie language, spoken by the Erie people before their dispersal in the 17th-century Beaver Wars; the exact meaning is not recorded and remains a matter of speculation. In 1874 Lewis Miller and John Heyl Vincent founded the Chautauqua Institution on the lake’s shore as a summer training program for Sunday school teachers; it grew into the Chautauqua movement, a national adult-education and lecture-circuit model that spread similarly named “chautauquas” across the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.<\/p>\n Interstate 86 (NY-17) crosses the county east–west, and the New York State Thruway (I-90) runs along the Lake Erie shore through Dunkirk and Westfield. US-20 parallels the Thruway further inland, and NY-5, NY-39, NY-60 and NY-83 connect the interior towns.<\/p>\n Chautauqua County–Jamestown Airport offers regional flights; Buffalo Niagara International Airport is the nearest larger commercial airport.<\/p>\n Where is Chautauqua County?<\/strong> What is the population of Chautauqua County?<\/strong> How big is Chautauqua County?<\/strong> What is the county seat of Chautauqua County?<\/strong> How many towns and villages are in Chautauqua County?<\/strong> What ZIP codes are in Chautauqua County?<\/strong> |