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Cascade, Michigan

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Sands Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49855. The Survey maps it on the Sands quadrangle.

Cascade within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 printed sheets

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.

Fires near this place

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Cascade between 1992 and 2020, burning about 214 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
22 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1995Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2006Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2005Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use14 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMC AGAIN
18 July 2006Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Cascade: 16 past producers, 10 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Water, Free, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
CascadeIron, Water, FreeProspect1845
Lindberg QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
480 Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Krygorski Const CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Carr MineIronPast Producer1844, 1873, 1874
Cascade Iron #1IronProspect
Cascade Iron #2IronProspect
Cascade Iron #3IronProspect
Cleveland-Cliffs Ore Improve. PlntIronPast Producer
Gilmore ProspectIronProspect

Every working recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cascade in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCascade$2,000There was a public report of numerous trees down a couple of miles west of Highway M-553 in Sands Township. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
June 2013HailCascade-Hail was reported five miles east-northeast of Palmer.

Every storm recorded in Marquette County

Nearest settlements

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

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Gentian1.5 miles17
Sands4.5 miles17
Eagle Mills5.2 miles15
Palmer5.7 miles15
Pioneer Estates6.8 miles18
Silver Creek Estates7.2 miles14
Brookton Corners7.2 miles18
Negaunee7.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617477. 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.