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Photograph of Caneadea Bridge
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Caneadea Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

“Caneadea Bridge, also known as East Hill Road Bridge, is a historic steel truss bridge that carries County Road 46 over the Genesee River in Caneadea, Allegany County, New York. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article Caneadea Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 34 National Register listings published here for Allegany County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Cty. Rd. over Genesee R., Caneadea, 14717
  • When was it listed? November 1998
  • Category. structure
  • Town. Caneadea town
  • National Register reference number. 98001388 - 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

59 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Caneadea Bridge between 1993 and 2019, burning about 90 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined39
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural4

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
5 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 May 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2001Debris and open burning1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 242 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 242 specimens collected within 10 miles of Caneadea Bridge between 1860 and 1974: 163 Animalia, 61 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 3 Chromista, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, Arnold, C. P., Arnold, Charles P. 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 Coleosporium Lév., 1847Coleosporium Lév., 18471936T.B. Rundle
Specimen of Septoria convolvuli Desm.Septoria convolvuli Desm.1939M. F. BarrusSmith Bros. Farm
Specimen of Sebacina Tul. & C.Tul.Sebacina Tul. & C.Tul.1953Stanley J. Smith & Eugene C. Ogdenwoods near Genesee River, south of Belfast
A photograph of the species Leucichthys Dybowski, not of this specimenLeucichthys Dybowski, 18741860C. HeacoxCaneadea Dam or Rushford Lake
A photograph of the species Acronicta albarufa, not of this specimenAcronicta albarufa Grote, 18741877LintnerCenter
A photograph of the species Acronicta tritona, not of this specimenAcronicta tritona Hübner, 18181877LintnerCenter
A photograph of the species Epiglaea decliva, not of this specimenEpiglaea decliva Grote, 18741877not recordedCenter
A photograph of the species Lithophane amanda, not of this specimenLithophane amanda Smith, 19001877LintnerCenter
A photograph of the species Lithophane querquera, not of this specimenLithophane querquera Grote, 18741877Hill, W.W.Center
A photograph of the species Lithophane semiusta, not of this specimenLithophane semiusta Grote, 18741877LintnerCenter
A photograph of the species Lithophane tepida, not of this specimenLithophane tepida Grote, 18741877Hill, W.W.Center
A photograph of the species Molothrus ater, not of this specimenMolothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783)1885Charles C. CookCenterville

All 242 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

10 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caneadea, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
August 2011Flash FloodCaneadea$25,000no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCaneadea$15,000Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindCaneadea$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCaneadea$12,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindCaneadea$8,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds..
August 2017Thunderstorm WindCaneadea$8,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2019Flash FloodCaneadea$5,000Heavy rain flooded and closed 150 feet of Route 19.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCaneadea$2,000Trees and wires downed on County Road 49.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCaneadea$2,000Trees and wires downed on Route 243.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCaneadea$1,000Trees were reported down.

Every storm recorded in Allegany County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

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

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Rail and Titsworth Canal Warehouse3.2 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001388 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.
  • 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.