BlockCasco, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1977. It stands in Lavell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55738. The Survey maps it on the Casco quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1951 USGS Casco quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
57 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Casco between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,606 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 were 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 burning | 17 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 September 2012 | Other causes | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 7.1 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 July 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 July 2004 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 July 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 June 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Casco in 1 storm report in 2016: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2016 | Tornado (EF1) | Casco | - | The tornado developed east of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad near the St. Louis River and tracked east-northeast for approximately 3.1 miles while producing sporadic pockets of low-end EF1 damage to softwood trees. The tornado struck a house which resulted in partial uplift of the roof and lofting of roofing materials. The tornado also flattened a decorative windmill and bent a flagpole. The roofing material was distributed downwind to a range of 380 yards. The tornado also snapped and uprooted several trees in this vicinity. The damage at this location was also rated EF-1. The sporadic damage track continued for another mile to the east-northeast. There was a distinct weakening of the tornado with several pockets of broken branches and limbs noted approximately 3 miles southwest of Zim. The tornado then turned southeast and the damage track tightened once again with a wide swath of EF-0 tree damage and pockets of low-end EF-1 damage. The sporadic EF-1 damage continued as the tornado crossed MN-7 and dissipated southwest of Stone Lake. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 660966. 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.
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.