Cascade, Colorado

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

• Eastholmelisted 1998

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1893 USGS Colorado Springs quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1909 USGS Colorado Springs quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1942 USGS Colorado Springs quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Cascade quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Colorado Springs quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Cascade quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Colorado Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Cascade quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1962 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Colorado Springs quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Cascade quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Cascade quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Cascade between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,748 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 9 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Minnehaha
• Chipita Park
• Glen Eyrie
• Manitou Springs
• Midway
• Old Mountain View (historical)

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of Cascade: 22 producers, 11 past producers, 10 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 22 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Quartz. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in El Paso County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cascade in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 3 flash flood, 2 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death and 3 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in El Paso County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 193326. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.

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.

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.