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This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Broken Straw. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Broken Straw.<1>

Our sources for Broken Straw (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Broken Straw other than they indicate that Broken Straw would be found somewhere in Chautauqua County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1861 and closed  in 1904.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Broken Straw ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Broken Straw:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Broken Straw - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Rand McNally Map of New York (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Chautauqua County ...

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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Chautauqua County.

AcastoMarks
Arkwright Summit 
Ashville BayNorton's
  
BeachwoodOpen Meadows
 Oregon
Cassadaga StationOrrington
Cheneys Point 
Clarks CornersPanama Station
CliftonPoint Chautauqua
Clymer StationPomfret
 Prospect Station
East SheridanProspect
Ellery 
 Ripley Center
Falconer Junction 
Fentonville StationSaint Clairsville
Fredonia StationSheridan Station
 Smith's Mills
Gillford's 
GrantTowerville Corners
  
HanoverUnion Ellery
Harmony 
Hawthorne ParkVan Buren
HoldenvilleVermont
 Villanova
IvesvilleVillenova
  
Jamestown WestWashburn
 West Ellicott
Maple BayWhitesides

Footnotes ...

<1>This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/