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Gaastra, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Gaastra City. It lies in ZIP code area 49927. The Survey maps it on the Gaastra quadrangle. 316 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,621 feet above sea level.

Gaastra within Iron County

On record in Gaastra

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Gaastra fell from 347 to 316 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
2010347
2020316-31 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Gaastra between 1993 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
8 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0022-19 - 2019
20 June 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0023-19 - 2019
6 May 1995Debris and open burning4.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0002220 - 2020
26 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0020-19 - 2019
21 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0019-19 - 2019
15 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0021-18 - 2018
15 May 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOttawa National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 596 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 596 workings within 5 miles of Gaastra: 474 prospects, 99 past producers, 16 occurrences, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free. 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
Cannon MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Sherwood MineAluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1851, 1943
Anderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highway Us 2 Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Iron County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Proksch No 1 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Arlington MineIronProspectSecondary Enrichment
Aronson Hole 97IronProspect
Aronson Iron MineIronPast Producer
Baker & Oliver Prospect B, F, 01IronProspect

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gaastra in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindGaastra$1,500Several small trees were reported down near Stambaugh. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindGaastra$1,000A few trees down across roads in the Gaastra area.
July 2002HailGaastra-Hail the size of a fifty-cent piece was reported.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindGaastra-wind gusts to 60 mph...trees down
June 2000HailGaastra-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Palatka1.1 miles12
Caspian1.4 miles14
Stambaugh1.9 miles14
Bates Junction1.9 miles12
Hiawatha Location2.3 miles14
Scott Lake2.9 miles12
Iron River3.1 miles14
Rogers Location3.5 miles12

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 GaastraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2021909The 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 626580. 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.