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.
Then and now
1916 to 1986The 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.


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.
- Canaseraga Four Corners Historic Districtlisted 2002 · 0.0 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresCanaseraga 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 550 | |
| 2020 | 460 | -90 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1916 USGS Canaseraga quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1940 USGS Canaseraga quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1964 USGS Canaseraga quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
32 since 1994Regional 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/undetermined | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 13 July 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 24 June 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 9 May 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 May 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.9 acres | New York Forest Rangers | BIG HOLLOW FIRE |
| 27 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 15 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 48 shownRegional 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Acossus centerensis Lintner, 1877 | 1882 | not recorded | Centre |
![]() | Stegonsporium Corda | 1926 | J.E. Flynn | near Forest Home |
![]() | unnamed | 1967 | D. Mackenzie | S. of Grove |
![]() | Arabidopsis lyrata (L.) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz | 1850 | F. H. Severance | Rattlesnake Hill near Ithaca (Prof Dudley on 08/06/1880); Presque Isle, Penn. (04/25/1880) |
![]() | Sphagnum subsecundum Nees | 1867 | not recorded | Centre |
![]() | Cycnia oregonensis Stretch | 1876 | J. S. Bailey | Centre |
![]() | Phyciodes batesii Reakirt, 1865 | 1876 | J. S. Bailey | Centre |
![]() | Acronicta albarufa Grote, 1874 | 1877 | J. S. Bailey | Centre |
![]() | Balsa labecula Grote, 1880 | 1877 | J. S. Bailey | Centre |
![]() | Hemaris gracilis Grote & Robinson, 1865 | 1877 | J. S. Bailey | Centre |
![]() | Hemaris thysbe Fabricius, 1775 | 1877 | W.W. Hill | |
![]() | Morrisonia evicta (Grote, 1873) | 1877 | J. S. Bailey | Centre |
All 48 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gruschow No.1 Well | Salt | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2014 | Flood | Canaseraga | $100,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Canaseraga | $22,000 | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canaseraga | $15,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canaseraga | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Canaseraga | $5,000 | no account filed |
| January 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canaseraga | $2,000 | Report of tree and powerlines downed in Canaseraga. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canaseraga | $2,000 | Pictures of several trees down on Twitter. |
| March 2026 | Flash Flood | Canaseraga | - | Numerous reports of flooded roadways and closed roads between Canaseraga and Burns. |
| May 2025 | Flash Flood | Canaseraga | - | Several homes evacuated on River Street due to flooding. |
| May 2025 | Flash Flood | Canaseraga | - | Report of several homes evacuated on South Church Street. |
| May 2025 | Flash Flood | Canaseraga | - | RT 70 closed due to high water over the road. |
| May 2025 | Flash Flood | Canaseraga | - | Boat deployed to do a water rescue of residence. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garwoods | 2.5 miles | 18 | |
| Burns | 3.5 miles | 21 | |
| Swain | 4.2 miles | 18 | |
| Gas Spring | 4.4 miles | 18 | |
| North Almond | 4.9 miles | 18 | |
| Grove | 5.1 miles | 18 | |
| Bishopville | 6.6 miles | 21 | |
| Hiltonville | 7.3 miles | 20 |
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 Canaseraga | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3452533 | The 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.



















