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West 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 lies in ZIP code area 14819. It lies near Kinners Knob. The Survey maps it on the Cameron quadrangle.

West 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 West Cameron, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of West 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.

Fires near this place

39 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of West Cameron between 1996 and 2020, burning about 129 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning9
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
7 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
12 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 June 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Cameron in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 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
June 2025Flash FloodWest Cameron$15,000Angel road was washed out.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cameron1.8 miles20
Browns Crossing2.4 miles20
South Cameron3.5 miles20
North Cameron3.6 miles18
Cameron Mills4.2 miles19
Buck Settlement4.8 miles17
Coss Corners4.9 miles18
Risingville5.5 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 969159. 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.