South Cameron, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cameron town. It stands on Talbot Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cameron quadrangle.

South Cameron within Steuben County

Then and now

1924 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of South Cameron, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of South Cameron, surveyed 1924

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

1924 USGS Woodhull quadrangle1:48000
1926 USGS Woodhull quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1944 USGS Woodhull quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Cameron 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

69 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of South Cameron between 1996 and 2020, burning about 135 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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	39
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	6
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
18 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Cameron	2.2 miles	20
Hedgesville	2.7 miles	20
West Cameron	3.5 miles	20
Cameron Mills	3.6 miles	19
Hampshire	5.0 miles	17
Jasper	5.2 miles	17
Browns Crossing	5.3 miles	20
Rathbone	6.4 miles	19

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.

Wikidata item Q122540398

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 973090. 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.