BlockCairo, Indiana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Tippecanoe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47906. The Survey maps it on the Brookston SW quadrangle. It stands 689 feet above sea level.
On record in Cairo
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 1 record
Cairo Skywatch Towerlisted 2002
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brookston SW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cairo: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lafayette Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cairo in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $5,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts snapped large tree limbs and power poles reported leaning. |
| August 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Cairo | $3,500 | An EF-0 tornado, with maximum winds estimated at 85 mph, downed three trees, destroyed a mailbox, and flattened a 25 yard wide path of corn. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $500 | A tree limb of unknown size was downed due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2015 | Flood | Cairo | $500 | Some standing water was observed on County Road 75 East due to moderate to heavy rainfall. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | - | A 100 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured in this location. |
| May 2009 | Flood | Cairo | - | Several county roads were flooded by heavy rain. Event time is estimated. |
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Cairo | - | A weak tornado moved along a 3.2 mile long path in north central Tippecanoe County on the evening of 14 April 2006. Fortunately, the tornado remained over open cornfields, damaging nothing. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Octagon | 3.7 miles | 9 | |
| Ash Grove | 4.1 miles | 9 | |
| Battle Ground | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Indian Village | 5.3 miles | 18 | |
| Klondike | 5.4 miles | 18 | |
| Ravinamy | 5.6 miles | 18 | |
| Bar-Barry Heights | 5.9 miles | 18 | |
| Crumb Corner | 6.0 miles | 18 |
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 Cairo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q27988868 | 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 431946. 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.
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.