Cashtown, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ortonville City. It lies in ZIP code area 56278. It stands on Whetstone River. The Survey maps it on the Ortonville quadrangle.

Cashtown within Big Stone County

On record in Cashtown

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 4 records

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

Big Stone County Courthouselisted 1985 · 0.5 miles away
Columbian Hotellisted 1985 · 0.7 miles away
Ortonville Free Librarylisted 1985 · 0.8 miles away
Ortonville Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1985 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Ortonville quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Ortonville quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Cashtown between 1993 and 2020, burning about 632 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	19 acres	Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge	DIMBERG-WF
2 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge	BALER
29 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	I90-346
11 May 2004	Natural	354 acres	Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge	SELLIN
10 May 2013	Debris and open burning	117 acres	Morris National Wildlife Refuge	285G
28 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Morris National Wildlife Refuge	CR65
12 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TIRE FIRE
1 April 2015	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge	GRAHAM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Big Stone 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 Cashtown: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Agate Quarry	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Big Stone Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Big Stone 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ortonville	0.5 miles	7
Lagoona Beach	5.3 miles	7
Odessa	6.4 miles	7
Clinton	11.2 miles	7
Foster	14.9 miles	8
Correll	15.5 miles	6
Big Stone Colony	16.0 miles	8
Artichoke	16.5 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 640964. 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.