Canisteo Center, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Canisteo town. It lies in ZIP code area 14823. It lies near Obes Glen. The Survey maps it on the Canisteo quadrangle.

Canisteo Center within Steuben County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Canisteo Center, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Canisteo Center, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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.

1915 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Canisteo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Canisteo Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 165 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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	28
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	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
16 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 August 2020	Natural	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
19 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 July 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 July 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/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 Canisteo Center: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Town Source	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Canisteo	1.5 miles	21
Adrian	3.2 miles	21
Buena Vista	4.4 miles	21
South Hornell	4.8 miles	21
South Canisteo	5.0 miles	17
Bennetts	5.7 miles	17
Butcher Corner	5.8 miles	21
Hornell	6.1 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972296. 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.