Cascade, Marquette County, Michigan

For the unincorporated community in Kent County, see Cascade Township, Michigan.

Cascade, Michigan
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 46°26′49″N87°29′07″W / 46.44694°N 87.48528°W / 46.44694; -87.48528
Country	United States
State	Michigan
County	Marquette
Township	Richmond
Elevation	1,227 ft (374 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code(s)	49855 (Marquette)
Area code	906
GNIS feature ID	1617477 [1]

Cascade is an unincorporated community in Marquette County in the U.S. state of Michigan. ^[1] The community is located within Richmond Township. As an unincorporated community, Cascade has no legally defined boundaries or population statistics of its own.

The community was named from the presence of the Cascade Iron Mining Company in the area. ^[2] Iron ore was discovered in the area in 1873, and the station at the junction between the Chicago and Northwestern Railway and the Marquette, Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad was called Cascade Junction. ^[3]

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cascade, Marquette County, Michigan
2. Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways (2nd ed.). Chicago: n.p. p. 52. OCLC   26612299 – via Google Books.
3. Romig, Walter (1986) [1973]. Michigan Place Names: The History of the Naming of More than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities (Great Lakes Books ed.). Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 101. ISBN   978-0-8143-1838-6.