Canisteo Center, New York | |
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 1873 map showing Canisteo Center (then called Center Canisteo) | |
  Canisteo Center Location in New York  Canisteo Center Location in United States | |
| Coordinates: 42°15′56″N77°34′44″W / 42.26556°N 77.57889°W Coordinates: 42°15′56″N77°34′44″W / 42.26556°N 77.57889°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Steuben |
| Elevation | 1,135 ft (346 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP code | 14823 |
| Area code(s) | 607 |
Canisteo Center, New York is the original location of the Village of Canisteo, at the intersection of Canisteo River Road and Steuben County road 119. It was never incorporated.
Canisteo is a village in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 2,336 at the 2000 census.
Steuben County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 98,990. Its county seat is Bath. Its name is in honor of Baron von Steuben, a German general who fought on the American side in the American Revolutionary War, though it is not pronounced the same. There is no direct link between the Baron von Steuben and modern Steuben County, which he never visited.
When the Erie Railroad was built about 1860, there was not room for a depot between the tracks and the Canisteo River, so the depot (vacant for decades and demolished in the late 20th century) was built two miles upriver. The Village of Canisteo reestablished itself near the depot.
The Erie Railroad was a railroad that operated in the northeastern United States, originally connecting New York City — more specifically Jersey City, New Jersey, where Erie's former terminal, long demolished, used to stand — with Lake Erie. It expanded west to Chicago with its 1941 merger with the former Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, also known as the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad. Its mainline route proved influential in the development and economic growth of the Southern Tier, including cities such as Binghamton, Elmira, and Hornell. The Erie Railroad repair shops were located in Hornell, and were Hornell's largest employer. Hornell was also where Erie's main line split into two routes, one north to Buffalo and the other west to Cleveland.
The Canisteo River is a 61.0-mile-long (98.2 km) tributary of the Tioga River in western New York in the United States. It drains a dissected plateau, a portion of the northern Allegheny Plateau southwest of the Finger Lakes region, in the far northwestern reaches of the watershed of the Susquehanna River.
Canisteo Center had a post office, called Center Canisteo, from 1851 to 1876. [1] Since the 19th century Canisteo Center has been a hamlet.
A hamlet is a small human settlement. In different jurisdictions and geographies, hamlets may be the size of a town, village or parish, be considered a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. The word and concept of a hamlet have roots in the Anglo-Norman settlement of England, where the old French hamlet came to apply to small human settlements. In British geography, a hamlet is considered smaller than a village and distinctly without a church.
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| Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |
So as to avoid confusion with Canisteo, in the later 20th century Canisteo Center was given the name of Carter.
