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Caneadea, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Caneadea town. It lies in ZIP code area 14717. It stands on Caneadea Creek. The Survey maps it on the Houghton quadrangle.

Caneadea within Allegany County

Then and now

1906 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Caneadea, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Caneadea, surveyed 1906

On record in Caneadea

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 17 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

63 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Caneadea between 1993 and 2019, burning about 86 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined42
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural4

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
5 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 May 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2001Debris and open burning1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2007Missing 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 242 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 242 specimens collected within 10 miles of Caneadea between 1860 and 1974: 163 Animalia, 61 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 3 Chromista, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, Arnold, C. P., Arnold, Charles P. 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 Coleosporium Lév., 1847Coleosporium Lév., 18471936T.B. Rundle
Specimen of Septoria convolvuli Desm.Septoria convolvuli Desm.1939M. F. BarrusSmith Bros. Farm
Specimen of Sebacina Tul. & C.Tul.Sebacina Tul. & C.Tul.1953Stanley J. Smith & Eugene C. Ogdenwoods near Genesee River, south of Belfast
A photograph of the species Leucichthys Dybowski, not of this specimenLeucichthys Dybowski, 18741860C. HeacoxCaneadea Dam or Rushford Lake
A photograph of the species Acronicta albarufa, not of this specimenAcronicta albarufa Grote, 18741877LintnerCenter
A photograph of the species Acronicta tritona, not of this specimenAcronicta tritona Hübner, 18181877LintnerCenter
A photograph of the species Epiglaea decliva, not of this specimenEpiglaea decliva Grote, 18741877not recordedCenter
A photograph of the species Lithophane amanda, not of this specimenLithophane amanda Smith, 19001877LintnerCenter
A photograph of the species Lithophane querquera, not of this specimenLithophane querquera Grote, 18741877Hill, W.W.Center
A photograph of the species Lithophane semiusta, not of this specimenLithophane semiusta Grote, 18741877LintnerCenter
A photograph of the species Lithophane tepida, not of this specimenLithophane tepida Grote, 18741877Hill, W.W.Center
A photograph of the species Molothrus ater, not of this specimenMolothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783)1885Charles C. CookCenterville

All 242 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

10 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caneadea in 10 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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 2011Flash FloodCaneadea$25,000no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCaneadea$15,000Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindCaneadea$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCaneadea$12,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindCaneadea$8,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds..
August 2017Thunderstorm WindCaneadea$8,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2019Flash FloodCaneadea$5,000Heavy rain flooded and closed 150 feet of Route 19.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCaneadea$2,000Trees and wires downed on County Road 49.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCaneadea$2,000Trees and wires downed on Route 243.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCaneadea$1,000Trees were reported down.

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
Oramel1.7 miles17
Balcom Beach2.5 miles17
Houghton2.6 miles17
Hillcrest2.8 miles17
Belfast3.7 miles17
McGrawville4.7 miles17
Marshall4.9 miles17
Rushford5.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 945766. 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.

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.