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Cameron Mills, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rathbone town. It lies in ZIP code area 14820. It stands on Helmer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rathbone quadrangle. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.

Cameron Mills within Steuben County

Then and now

1924 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cameron Mills, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cameron Mills, surveyed 1924

On record in Cameron Mills

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

58 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Cameron Mills between 1996 and 2020, burning about 120 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning13
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cameron Mills: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Town of Cameron PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Steuben County

Storms near this place

4 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cameron Mills in 4 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2021Flash FloodCameron Mills$15,000A residence was surrounded by water with a person trapped inside. Swiftwater rescues underway.
July 2021Flash FloodCameron Mills$3,000Tracy Creek is flooding near Tracy Creek Rd, and Richtmeyer Rd.
May 2025Flash FloodCameron Mills$2,000County Route 80 was closed due to water over roadways.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindCameron Mills$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down across a roadway.

Every storm recorded in Steuben County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cameron2.6 miles20
South Cameron3.6 miles20
Risingville3.7 miles19
Rathbone3.9 miles19
Hedgesville3.9 miles20
South Thurston3.9 miles19
West Cameron4.2 miles20
North Cameron5.1 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Cameron MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740580The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 969949. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.