Town of Canaan – Civil in Columbia, New York

Identifier

GNIS Feature ID 978781

Location

State New York

County Columbia

Feature Class Civil

Coordinates

DMS

42°23'42"N 73°27'33"W

Decimal Degrees

42.3949937, -73.4590895

Elevation

980.97 ft (299.00 m)

USGS 7.5′ Quad Map

Quad Name Canaan

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Protected Areas

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Nearest Populated Place

Canaan Center

0.6 mi SSE

Also Known As

King's District Kings District

Hydrography

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Description

37 square miles

History

Established in 1772. Name changed in 1788.

Nearby Features

Canaan Center Populated Place · 0.6 mi SSE
Rattlesnake Den Summit · 1.1 mi ESE
Buttercup Creek Stream · 1.3 mi NNE
Canaan Populated Place · 1.3 mi NNE
Queechy Lake Brook Stream · 1.5 mi NE
Flatbrook Populated Place · 2.0 mi SE
Queechy Populated Place · 2.0 mi ENE
Mercer Mountain Summit · 2.1 mi SSW
Beebe Pond Lake · 2.2 mi E
Queechy Lake Lake · 2.4 mi ENE

Data Sources & Attribution

Feature data: U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) – U.S. Geological Survey.
Elevation: USGS Elevation Point Query Service (EPQS).
Topographic basemap: USGS National Map.
Quad map thumbnails: USGS US Topo.
Watershed boundaries: USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD).
Protected areas: USGS Protected Areas Database (PAD-US) – Gap Analysis Project.
Photos (where shown): Wikidata / Wikimedia Commons – individual licenses apply.
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