South Canisteo, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Canisteo town. It lies in ZIP code area 14823. It lies near Spaulding Hollow. The Survey maps it on the South Canisteo quadrangle.

South Canisteo within Steuben County

Then and now

1926 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 60 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 Canisteo, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of South Canisteo, surveyed 1926

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1926 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS South Canisteo quadrangle1:24000, 2 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of South Canisteo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 198 acres in total. 3 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	32
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 August 2020	Natural	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
16 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	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	Debris and open burning	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
3 May 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Storms near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Canisteo in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2003	Flash Flood	South Canisteo	$100,000	Heavy rain from thunderstorms produced flash flooding in and around Adrian and South Canisteo. More than 3 inches of rain fell in a 90 minute period during the late evening of August 7th. The flooding caused severe road damage. Several residences also suffered damage from this flood. One residence had a pool, a shed, and a propane tank washed away when the creek went out of its bank. The propane tank was attached to the house.
June 2014	Flash Flood	South Canisteo	$40,000	Colonel Bills Creek was flash flooding across many areas of State Route 36.
July 2025	Flash Flood	South Canisteo	$20,000	Flash flooding washed a bridge out over Red Spring Run.
May 2025	Flash Flood	South Canisteo	$5,000	State Route 248 was closed near Sugar Creek due to flooding on the roadway.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	South Canisteo	$2,500	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	South Canisteo	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down wires near Routes 31 and 36.

Every storm 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
Hampshire	2.6 miles	17
Bennetts	3.8 miles	17
Adrian	4.3 miles	21
Canisteo Center	5.0 miles	21
Jasper	5.7 miles	17
Canisteo	5.9 miles	21
Browns Crossing	6.4 miles	20
South Cameron	6.6 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 South Canisteo	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65081678	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 965719. 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.

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.