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Cass City, Michigan

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Elkland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48726. It stands on North Branch Cass River. The Survey maps it on the Cass City quadrangle. 2,494 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

Cass City within Tuscola County

On record in Cass City

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

Population over time

2 figures

Cass City grew from 2,428 to 2,494 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,428
20202,494+66 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Cass City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony1

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
14 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTUSCOLA 01 - CASS CITY REKINDLE
13 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELKLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000084 - 2018
7 April 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGAGETOWN-ELMWOOD TWP FD 19F0375 - 2019
3 April 2010Debris and open burning70 acresOttawa National Wildlife Refuge4/3/2010
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELKLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000044 - 2018
2 April 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscola County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cass City: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Schwaderer Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tuckeys Ready Mix and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tuscola County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tuscola County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tuscola County

Storms near this place

32 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cass City in 32 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 25 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 tornado. 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
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCass City$10,000A large tree fell through the roof of a home on Elmwood Road just south of Cass City. Total property damage was estimated at roughly $10K.
June 1998Tornado (F0)Cass City$5,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCass City$5,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindCass City$3,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCass City$2,000no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindCass City$200Several large tree branches fell across Cemetary Rd just south of Cass City.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCass City-Multiple trees reported down.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCass City-At least half a dozen of trees reported down across southern Tuscola county.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCass City-A tree was reported down on the road.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCass City-Trees reported down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCass City-A two foot diameter tree was reported blown down.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindCass City-Numerous trees and wires reported down.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCass City-Large tree blown down, along with 12 inch limbs.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCass City-Six to eight inch tree limbs down.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCass City-A small shed was blown over.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCass City-Multiple trees were reported blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCass City-Two trees were reported blown down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindCass City-A trained spotter reported large tree branches down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCass City-A trained spotter reported a tree down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCass City-Trained spotters reported trees and power lines down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCass City-A trained spotter reported an 8 inch tree limb blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCass City-A trained spotter estimated a 70 mph thunderstorm wind gust, which brought down a large tree.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCass City-Trees and wires were reported blown down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCass City-A trained weather spotter estimated a 58 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCass City-Trained spotters reported 15 inch diameter tree limbs blown down in thunderstorm winds in Gagetown.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindCass City-Several large tree limbs were blown down.
April 2026HailCass City-no account filed
July 2007HailCass City-no account filed
August 2007HailCass City-no account filed
June 2005HailCass City-no account filed
May 1998HailCass City-no account filed
May 1998HailCass City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuscola 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
Huntsville Park0.6 miles8
Gagetown5.4 miles8
Elmwood5.9 miles8
Deford6.1 miles8
Ellington8.4 miles8
Colwood9.4 miles8
Wilmot9.5 miles10
Dayton11.3 miles9

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on Cass CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3316445The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 622846. 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.