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Canaseraga, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Burns town. It lies in ZIP code area 14822. It stands on Slader Creek. The Survey maps it on the Canaseraga quadrangle. 460 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Canaseraga within Allegany County

Then and now

1916 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Canaseraga, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Canaseraga, surveyed 1916

On record in Canaseraga

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Canaseraga fell from 550 to 460 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010550
2020460-90 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Canaseraga between 1994 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
31 August 1997Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
13 July 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 June 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
9 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2013Arson/incendiarism4.9 acresNew York Forest RangersBIG HOLLOW FIRE
27 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 48 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 48 specimens collected within 10 miles of Canaseraga between 1850 and 1970: 35 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by BEAUMONT, J, BUSACK, STEPHEN D AND L D BUSACK, C.F. Cook and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Acossus centerensis Lintner, 1877Acossus centerensis Lintner, 18771882not recordedCentre
Specimen of Stegonsporium CordaStegonsporium Corda1926J.E. Flynnnear Forest Home
Specimen of unnamed1967D. MackenzieS. of Grove
A photograph of the species Arabidopsis lyrata, not of this specimenArabidopsis lyrata (L.) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz1850F. H. SeveranceRattlesnake Hill near Ithaca (Prof Dudley on 08/06/1880); Presque Isle, Penn. (04/25/1880)
A photograph of the species Sphagnum subsecundum, not of this specimenSphagnum subsecundum Nees1867not recordedCentre
A photograph of the species Cycnia oregonensis, not of this specimenCycnia oregonensis Stretch1876J. S. BaileyCentre
A photograph of the species Phyciodes batesii, not of this specimenPhyciodes batesii Reakirt, 18651876J. S. BaileyCentre
A photograph of the species Acronicta albarufa, not of this specimenAcronicta albarufa Grote, 18741877J. S. BaileyCentre
A photograph of the species Balsa labecula, not of this specimenBalsa labecula Grote, 18801877J. S. BaileyCentre
A photograph of the species Hemaris gracilis, not of this specimenHemaris gracilis Grote & Robinson, 18651877J. S. BaileyCentre
A photograph of the species Hemaris thysbe, not of this specimenHemaris thysbe Fabricius, 17751877W.W. Hill
A photograph of the species Morrisonia evicta, not of this specimenMorrisonia evicta (Grote, 1873)1877J. S. BaileyCentre

All 48 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 Canaseraga: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. 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
Gruschow No.1 WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Allegany County

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canaseraga in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
May 2014FloodCanaseraga$100,000no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F0)Canaseraga$22,000no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCanaseraga$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCanaseraga$10,000no account filed
May 1998HailCanaseraga$5,000no account filed
January 2026Thunderstorm WindCanaseraga$2,000Report of tree and powerlines downed in Canaseraga.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCanaseraga$2,000Pictures of several trees down on Twitter.
March 2026Flash FloodCanaseraga-Numerous reports of flooded roadways and closed roads between Canaseraga and Burns.
May 2025Flash FloodCanaseraga-Several homes evacuated on River Street due to flooding.
May 2025Flash FloodCanaseraga-Report of several homes evacuated on South Church Street.
May 2025Flash FloodCanaseraga-RT 70 closed due to high water over the road.
May 2025Flash FloodCanaseraga-Boat deployed to do a water rescue of residence.

Every storm recorded in Allegany 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
Garwoods2.5 miles18
Burns3.5 miles21
Swain4.2 miles18
Gas Spring4.4 miles18
North Almond4.9 miles18
Grove5.1 miles18
Bishopville6.6 miles21
Hiltonville7.3 miles20

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 CanaseragaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3452533The 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 945753. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.