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Canaseraga Four Corners Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1916.

From the record

“Canaseraga Four Corners Historic District is a national historic district located at Canaseraga in Allegany County, New York. The district consists of 1.7 acres (0.69 ha) and includes 16 contributing buildings.”

Wikipedia article Canaseraga Four Corners Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 34 National Register listings published here for Allegany County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 42-64 and 43-69 Main St., 9 S. Church St., Canaderaga, 14822
  • When was it listed? March 2002
  • Category. district
  • Town. Burns town
  • National Register reference number. 02000145 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Canaseraga Four Corners Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
31 August 1997Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
13 July 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 June 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
9 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2013Arson/incendiarism4.9 acresNew York Forest RangersBIG HOLLOW FIRE
27 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 48 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 48 specimens collected within 10 miles of Canaseraga Four Corners Historic District between 1850 and 1970: 35 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by BEAUMONT, J, BUSACK, STEPHEN D AND L D BUSACK, C.F. Cook 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Acossus centerensis Lintner, 1877Acossus centerensis Lintner, 18771882not recordedCentre
Specimen of Stegonsporium CordaStegonsporium Corda1926J.E. Flynnnear Forest Home
Specimen of unnamed1967D. MackenzieS. of Grove
A photograph of the species Arabidopsis lyrata, not of this specimenArabidopsis lyrata (L.) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz1850F. H. SeveranceRattlesnake Hill near Ithaca (Prof Dudley on 08/06/1880); Presque Isle, Penn. (04/25/1880)
A photograph of the species Sphagnum subsecundum, not of this specimenSphagnum subsecundum Nees1867not recordedCentre
A photograph of the species Cycnia oregonensis, not of this specimenCycnia oregonensis Stretch1876J. S. BaileyCentre
A photograph of the species Phyciodes batesii, not of this specimenPhyciodes batesii Reakirt, 18651876J. S. BaileyCentre
A photograph of the species Acronicta albarufa, not of this specimenAcronicta albarufa Grote, 18741877J. S. BaileyCentre
A photograph of the species Balsa labecula, not of this specimenBalsa labecula Grote, 18801877J. S. BaileyCentre
A photograph of the species Hemaris gracilis, not of this specimenHemaris gracilis Grote & Robinson, 18651877J. S. BaileyCentre
A photograph of the species Hemaris thysbe, not of this specimenHemaris thysbe Fabricius, 17751877W.W. Hill
A photograph of the species Morrisonia evicta, not of this specimenMorrisonia evicta (Grote, 1873)1877J. S. BaileyCentre

All 48 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Canaseraga Four Corners Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gruschow No.1 WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Allegany County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02000145 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Allegany CountyAll 34 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.
  • 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.