Canisteo Living Sign 1, NY
Canisteo may refer to: Places in the United States * Canisteo (town), New York, in Steuben County * Canisteo (village), New York, in Steuben County * Canisteo River, a tributary of the Tioga River in New York * Canisteo Township, Minnesota, in Dodge County Other * Canisteo Peninsula, Antarctica * USS Canisteo (AO-99) USS ''Canisteo'' (AO-99) was a fleet oiler constructed for the United States Navy in the closing days of World War II. Commissioned too late for service in that conflict, she had a lengthy career in the Cold War that followed. She was the on ...

Canisteo (town), New York
Canisteo () is a town in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 3,294 at the 2020 census. The name was taken from a former Native American village located there, and is Iroquoian in origin. The Town of Canisteo is in the westernmost part of the county, bordering Allegany County and southeast of Hornell. The town contains a village also named Canisteo. Etymology The name "Canisteo" derives from the Seneca language and translates roughly to "board on the water". History The Senecas had a major village here called "Kah-nis-ti-oh." Canisteo is rich in Indian lore. The first settlers arrived around 1788, making Canisteo one of the earliest locations occupied in the county. A large proportion of the first settlers of Canisteo were from Pennsylvania, since at the time access was primarily via the Susquehanna River; there were no direct links to Albany or New York City. The town was formed in 1796 at the time of the creation of the county and is one of its ...
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Canisteo (village), New York
Canisteo () is a village in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 2,270 at the 2010 census. The Village of Canisteo is in the northwest corner of the Town of Canisteo and is southeast of Hornell. History Native Americans Canisteo existed as a community prior to European settlement, but there are different versions of who the inhabitants were and what the settlement consisted of. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Canisteo was in a remote area, between territories of the Seneca and Delaware Indians, "a sort of No Man's Land". There are references to a "Kanestio castle", but differing accounts of what it was, or even what was meant by "castle". One modern writer calls it "mysterious", noting that "facts about tare few and difficult to come by." A well-known version is that of Steuben County historian Harlo Hakes, published in 1896: "Previous to the advent of the white man this town, and in fact the whole valley of the Canisteo, was the abiding ...
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Canisteo River
The Canisteo River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed August 8, 2011 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. It rises in the hills of northern Allegany County, New York approximately southwest of Dansville, New York. It flows east into northern Steuben County, New York, then generally southeast past Hornell, New York and Canisteo, New York. It joins the Tioga from the west in southeastern Steuben County, approximately north of the Pennsylvania state line and southwest of Corning, New York. The origin of the name of the river is obscure, likely from the Algonquian languages subfamily of American indigenous languages meaning either " pickerel" or "head of water". History The Canist ...
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Canisteo Township, Minnesota
Canisteo Township is a township in Dodge County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 662 at the 2000 census. History Canisteo Township was organized in 1858. A large share of the first settlers being natives of Canisteo, New York caused the name to be selected. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 662 people, 225 households, and 191 families residing in the township. The population density was 18.4 people per square mile (7.1/km2). There were 229 housing units at an average density of 6.4/sq mi (2.5/km2). The racial makeup of the township was 97.58% White, 2.11% Asian, 0.30% from other races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.11% of the population. There were 225 households, out of which 40.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 77.8% were married couples living together, 3.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 14. ...
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Canisteo Peninsula
Canisteo Peninsula () is an ice-covered peninsula, about long and wide, which projects between Ferrero Bay and Cranton Bay into the eastern extremity of the Amundsen Sea. It was delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in December 1946, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ... for the USS ''Canisteo'', a tanker with the eastern task group of this expedition. Further reading * Defense Mapping Agency 1992, Sailing Directions (planning Guide) and (enroute) for Antarctica', P 277 * Herzfeld U.C. (2004), Detailed Studies of Selected Antarctic Outlet Glaciers and Ice Shelves', In: Atlas of Antarctica. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18515-1_6 References * Pe ...
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