BlockCassbridge, Michigan
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Bridgeport Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48722. The Survey maps it on the Birch Run North quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1919 USGS Saginaw quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1941 USGS Saginaw quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Saginaw quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Birch Run North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Flint quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Flint quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
30 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Cassbridge (historical) between 2012 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BRIDGEPORT FD 623 - 2019 |
| 29 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BRIDGEPORT FD 712 - 2018 |
| 11 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FRANKENMUTH FD 73 - 2018 |
| 9 June 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BRIDGEPORT FD 526 - 2020 |
| 2 June 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BRIDGEPORT FD 523 - 2018 |
| 8 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge | GABEL RD FIRE |
| 7 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BRIDGEPORT FD 441 - 2018 |
| 6 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BRIDGEPORT FD 432 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgeport | 2.9 miles | 16 | |
| Winter's Motor Court | 4.7 miles | 16 | |
| Fosters | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| Frankenmuth | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Frankentrost | 5.4 miles | 16 | |
| Gera | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Birch Run | 6.3 miles | 16 | |
| Buena Vista | 6.7 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2558442. 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.