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Cayuga, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Eugene Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47928. It stands on Vermilion River. The Survey maps it on the Newport quadrangle. 952 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 505 feet above sea level.

Cayuga within Vermillion County

Population over time

2 figures

Cayuga fell from 1,162 to 952 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,162
2020952-210 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Eugene township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From Biographical and Historical Record of Vermillion County, Indiana : Containing Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Cleveland, with Accompanying Biographies of Each; a Condensed History of the State of Indiana; Portraits and Biographies of Some of the Prominent Men of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens in Vermillion County, with Personal Histories of Many of the Leading Families, and a Concise History of the County and Its Villages, published 1888 - Eugene Township

Eugene

As previously remarked, Eugene is another example of those niimerous towns that were killed by the railroad passing just at killing distance; but it is a beautiful place for a quiet residence. The present population is estimated at about 500. Two or three conspiciious features strike the stranger who visits the place.

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In the county-history sources

3,068 words on this township

Biographical and Historical Record of Vermillion County, Indiana : Containing Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Cleveland, with Accompanying Biographies of Each; a Condensed History of the State of Indiana; Portraits and Biographies of Some of the Prominent Men of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens in Vermillion County, with Personal Histories of Many of the Leading Families, and a Concise History of the County and Its Villages, published 1888 names this settlement in its chapter on Eugene Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

1819. - John Groenendyke came from near Ovid, Cayuga County, New York, first to Terre Haute in 1818, and the next year to this county, settling on the Big Vermillion where Eugene now stands. He was the father of James - who built the " Big Vermillion," the first large grist-mill in the county already referred to - and Samuel, and the grandfather of Hon. John Groenendyke and his cousin Samuel, and also the grandfather of the present Colletts. The name was originally Van Groenendycke, which the express agent at Eugene, Samuel, has abbreviated still further to Grondyke - a word of two syllables, the first syllable being pronounced groan. The first family of this line came to America from Holland with the Knickerbockers in 1617, settling in New Amsterdam (New York).

Passage source: Biographical and Historical Record of Vermillion County, Indiana : Containing Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Cleveland, with Accompanying Biographies of Each; a Condensed History of the State of Indiana; Portraits and Biographies of Some of the Prominent Men of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens in Vermillion County, with Personal Histories of Many of the Leading Families, and a Concise History of the County and Its Villages, published 1888.

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 Eugene Township.

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Cayuga: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Cayuga Shale PitClayProducer
Cayuga Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Conrad Perry Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cronkite PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dickerson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Materials Service PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Silverwood Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Summit Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Vermillion County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cayuga in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2000HailCayuga$5,000,000no account filed
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Cayuga$30,000An EF-1 tornado touched down at 9:10PM EDT in central Vermillion County and traveled northeast through northwest Parke, southeast Fountain, and west-central Montgomery Counties. This tornado formed 2.72 miles southwest of Cayuga and tracked northeast for approximately 4 miles before exiting Vermillion County about 2.36 miles east, southeast of Cayuga at 9:16PM EDT. The tornado continued northeast into Parke County, around 1.51 miles west of Waterman, for another 8.6 miles before leaving the county 3.53 miles northeast of Sylvania at 9:22PM EDT. The tornado continued northeast into Fountain County, around 1.69 miles east, southeast of Kingman, for another 9.3 miles before pushing into Montgomery County at 9:32PM EDT, 2.75 miles northwest of Alamo, for another 9.23 miles and dissipating about 1.89 miles northwest of Crawfordsville at 9:40PM EDT. Multiple trees and power lines were reported down along the path, as well as siding and shingles ripped off homes. A shed was destroyed in Vermillion County and another structure sustained damage in Parke County. The tornado was rated an EF-1 along most of its path, except in Montgomery County where EF-0 damage was found. The maximum width along the path was 100 yards.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCayuga$5,000Numerous trees and power lines downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts in a line stretching from the northwestern portions of the county to Newport.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCayuga$2,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines in Cayuga and neighboring Eugene.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCayuga$1,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindCayuga$500no account filed
May 2019HailCayuga-Report was received from 4.5 miles southwest of Cayuga on the Indiana state line via spotternetwork.org.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindCayuga-A spotter reported thunderstorm winds gusts of 55 to 65 MPH between Cayuga and Perrysville, Indiana.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindCayuga-Trees were downed.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCayuga-VEHICLE BLOWN OFF OF ROAD
April 1994Thunderstorm WindCayuga-Several trees were blown down in Cayuga. Numerous other trees were blown down throughout the county.
January 2005Flash FloodCayuga-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCayuga-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCayuga-no account filed
August 2002Flash FloodCayuga-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCayuga-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindCayuga-no account filed
May 2000HailCayuga-no account filed
May 2000HailCayuga-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Vermillion 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
Eugene1.4 miles13
Newport5.2 miles13
Perrysville7.2 miles11
Quaker7.4 miles17
Flat Iron7.4 miles11
Gessie9.5 miles11
Dana9.9 miles16
Tree Spring10.3 miles11

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 CayugaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2800179The 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 432255. 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.