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Cascade, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cedar Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63655. It lies near Jett Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Cascade quadrangle. It stands 525 feet above sea level.

Cascade within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 19 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Cascade between 1992 and 2020, burning about 442 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
17 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use9.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
31 May 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 May 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined273 acresMissouri Department of ConservationHOPE HOLLOW
14 March 1998Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 February 1998Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 February 2017Equipment and vehicle use30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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 Cascade: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. 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
Otto Senter MineManganesePast Producer
UnknownIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cascade in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2023HailCascade-Quarter-size hail was covering the ground.
May 2016Flash FloodCascade-Low water crossings were flooded in northern Wayne County.
May 1993HailCascade-Reported by county officials.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Gravelton0.8 miles19
Burch5.0 miles19
Clubb7.1 miles20
Coldwater7.5 miles19
Hiram8.7 miles20
Lodi10.2 miles19
Missionary Acres10.4 miles20
Lowndes10.4 miles20

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 CascadeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5048082The 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 715465. 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.