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Cathro, Michigan

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Maple Ridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49707. The Survey maps it on the Long Lake West quadrangle.

Cathro within Alpena County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Cathro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 74 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
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural3
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
12 August 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPENA TOWNSHIP FD 20N0695 - 2020
31 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 July 2002Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAPLE RIDGE TOWNSHIP FD 00F1818 - 2018
23 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALPENA TOWNSHIP FD 19N624A - 2019
7 May 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alpena County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cathro: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Dowling PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Klein Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Alpena County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cathro in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2005: 3 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
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCathro$1,000A large willow tree was downed by wind.
August 2003HailCathro-no account filed
June 2001HailCathro-no account filed
October 1999HailCathro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alpena 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
Bolton2.4 miles7
Ashland6.3 miles7
Lakewood6.8 miles7
Paxton7.9 miles8
Emerson Station8.4 miles7
Alpena Junction8.7 miles8
McHarg9.1 miles8
Long Rapids9.2 miles7

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.

Wikidata item Q122595335The 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 622879. 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.