Cascade, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Loup precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69166. It stands on Calf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Purdum NW quadrangle.

Cascade within Cherry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1949 USGS Purdum quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Purdum quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Goose Creek quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Purdum NW quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Cascade in 2014, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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	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
20 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Cherry 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
Falter Place	6.6 miles	9
Elsmere	10.7 miles	9
Hartgraves Place	11.4 miles	10
Piercy Place	11.9 miles	10
Brownlee	14.7 miles	9
Conterra	22.5 miles	9
Wood Lake	32.5 miles	9
Kennedy	34.0 miles	9

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 Cascade	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17986289	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 835270. 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.