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.
Then and now
1906 to 1986The 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.


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
Caneadea Bridgelisted 1998
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1906 USGS Angelica quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1941 USGS Angelica quadrangle1:62500
- 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Houghton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Houghton quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Olean quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
63 since 1993Regional 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/undetermined | 42 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 7 May 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 May 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 May 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 May 2007 | 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 242 shownRegional 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Coleosporium Lév., 1847 | 1936 | T.B. Rundle | |
![]() | Septoria convolvuli Desm. | 1939 | M. F. Barrus | Smith Bros. Farm |
![]() | Sebacina Tul. & C.Tul. | 1953 | Stanley J. Smith & Eugene C. Ogden | woods near Genesee River, south of Belfast |
![]() | Leucichthys Dybowski, 1874 | 1860 | C. Heacox | Caneadea Dam or Rushford Lake |
![]() | Acronicta albarufa Grote, 1874 | 1877 | Lintner | Center |
![]() | Acronicta tritona Hübner, 1818 | 1877 | Lintner | Center |
![]() | Epiglaea decliva Grote, 1874 | 1877 | not recorded | Center |
![]() | Lithophane amanda Smith, 1900 | 1877 | Lintner | Center |
![]() | Lithophane querquera Grote, 1874 | 1877 | Hill, W.W. | Center |
![]() | Lithophane semiusta Grote, 1874 | 1877 | Lintner | Center |
![]() | Lithophane tepida Grote, 1874 | 1877 | Hill, W.W. | Center |
![]() | Molothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783) | 1885 | Charles C. Cook | Centerville |
All 242 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
10 since 2011Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2011 | Flash Flood | Caneadea | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneadea | $15,000 | Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneadea | $15,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneadea | $12,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneadea | $8,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneadea | $8,000 | Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Caneadea | $5,000 | Heavy rain flooded and closed 150 feet of Route 19. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneadea | $2,000 | Trees and wires downed on County Road 49. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneadea | $2,000 | Trees and wires downed on Route 243. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneadea | $1,000 | Trees were reported down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oramel | 1.7 miles | 17 | |
| Balcom Beach | 2.5 miles | 17 | |
| Houghton | 2.6 miles | 17 | |
| Hillcrest | 2.8 miles | 17 | |
| Belfast | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| McGrawville | 4.7 miles | 17 | |
| Marshall | 4.9 miles | 17 | |
| Rushford | 5.3 miles | 14 |
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.




















