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.
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.
Italian Society Duke of Abruzzi Halllisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresGaastra 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 347 | |
| 2020 | 316 | -31 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1898 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Gaastra quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Gaastra quadrangle1:31680
- 1958 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1989 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
14 since 1993Regional 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 use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEST IRON COUNTY FD 0022-19 - 2019 |
| 20 June 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEST IRON COUNTY FD 0023-19 - 2019 |
| 6 May 1995 | Debris and open burning | 4.9 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEST IRON COUNTY FD 0002220 - 2020 |
| 26 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEST IRON COUNTY FD 0020-19 - 2019 |
| 21 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEST IRON COUNTY FD 0019-19 - 2019 |
| 15 May 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEST IRON COUNTY FD 0021-18 - 2018 |
| 15 May 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ottawa National Forest | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 596 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cannon Mine | Iron, Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Sherwood Mine | Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free | Past Producer | 1851, 1943 | |
| Anderson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Highway Us 2 Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Iron County Road Comm. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Proksch No 1 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Arlington Mine | Iron | Prospect | Secondary Enrichment | |
| Aronson Hole 97 | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Aronson Iron Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Baker & Oliver Prospect B, F, 01 | Iron | Prospect |
Storms near this place
5 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gaastra | $1,500 | Several small trees were reported down near Stambaugh. Time of the report was estimated from radar. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gaastra | $1,000 | A few trees down across roads in the Gaastra area. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Gaastra | - | Hail the size of a fifty-cent piece was reported. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gaastra | - | wind gusts to 60 mph...trees down |
| June 2000 | Hail | Gaastra | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palatka | 1.1 miles | 12 | |
| Caspian | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Stambaugh | 1.9 miles | 14 | |
| Bates Junction | 1.9 miles | 12 | |
| Hiawatha Location | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Scott Lake | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Iron River | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Rogers Location | 3.5 miles | 12 |
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 Gaastra | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2021909 | The 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.







