BlockCayuga, Illinois
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 2001. It stands in Odell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61764. The Survey maps it on the Northeast Pontiac quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1935 USGS Pontiac quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1939 USGS Pontiac quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Northeast Pontiac quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 2001 USGS Northeast Pontiac quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
7,364 words on this townshipThe History of Livingston County, Illinois : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c. .., published 1878 names this settlement in its chapter on Odell Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Odell Township is situated north of the center of the county. It is exactly six miles square and embraces a full congressional town, and is described as Town 29 north. Range 6 east of the Third Principal Meridian. It is cut almost diagonally, from northeast to southwest, by the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad, which divides it into two nearly equal portions. With the exception of a branch of Deer Creek, which takes its rise and flows through the southwestern portion of the township in the vicinity of Cayuga, the township is destitute of ruwning streams, and, with the exception of the little groves, here and there, planted by the owners of the land, is also destitute of timber. The soil is of a very rich and fertile character, and well adapted to the raising of corn, immense quantities of which are produced.
Passage source: The History of Livingston County, Illinois : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c. .., published 1878.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Odell Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Cayuga in 2010, burning about 35 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | PONTIAC |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cayuga: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Livingston Hwy. Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Pontiac Portable Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Raube Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cayuga in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | Tornado (EFU) | Cayuga | - | A Livingston County deputy reported a brief tornado near 2200 North Road and old US-66 east of the community of Cayuga. The time and location of the report was consistent with rotation indicated by radar. There is no known damage that was caused by the tornado. |
| September 2019 | Heavy Rain | Cayuga | - | Rainfall of 3.02 inches was measured in three hours at the Pontiac Municipal Airport with 2.01 inches falling in one hour. |
| August 2005 | Hail | Cayuga | - | A thunderstorm moved across northeast Livingston County during the evening hours of Thursday, August 4th. The storm produced a swath of hail up to the size of quarters as well as torrential rain. In Broughton Township in northeast Livingston County, 2.6 inches of rain was reported along with visible hail damage to some crops. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cayuga | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cayuga | - | no account filed |
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 405724. 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.