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Cassoday, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sycamore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66842. The Survey maps it on the Cassoday quadrangle. 113 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,473 feet above sea level.

Cassoday within Butler County

Population over time

2 figures

Cassoday fell from 129 to 113 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
2010129
2020113-16 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Cassoday between 1994 and 2019, burning about 3,077 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service43
18 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service41
4 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service29
14 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresButler County184
30 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service26
22 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service25
19 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service21
7 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service16

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

60 of 66 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cassoday in 66 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 36 hail, 23 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindCassoday1 hurt, $5,000,000Damaging winds over 60 miles an hour began in Cassoday where 24 utility poles were either broke or blown over. The hardest hit was the Augusta area where four homes were totally destroyed and seven sustained major damage. Two mobile homes were destroyed. A woman was hospitalized when her mobile home was blown over and rolled three times. Sixty mobile homes in the Cedar Land Mobile Home Court had damage. The winds collapsed a storage shed at a car lot, while blowing debris damaged many vehicles on the lot. Damage in the Andover area was mostly from and to trees. Firework tents were knocked down or destroyed and traffic lights were knocked down. Damage estimates range from $10 thousand to $50 thousand. In El Dorado, 70 mph winds damaged the hospital and trees were blown down on the Courthouse lawn. Over 80 mph winds lasted ten minutes in Peabody. Eighty mph winds were reported in Douglass where there was extensive tree damage; the roof of an auto body shop was blown off and a church lost part of its roof. Total damage for the county was nearly $3 million. Utility power lines sustained $614,000 in damages.
April 1999HailCassoday$60,000Tennis ball-sized hail damaged 5 vehicles and inflicted roof damage to several houses.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindCassoday$50,000RADIO TOWER, 192 FEET TALL, TIPPED OVER, LANDING ON TOP OF GAS STATION.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindCassoday$25,000Semi overturned on Kansas turnpike at mile marker 73.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindCassoday$25,000A 20 X 24 foot shed damaged. Area newspapers contributed to this report.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCassoday$25,000Winds gusting between 52 and 70kts caused roof damage at a service station, destroyed a shed, and caused widespread tree damage. Area newspapers contributed to this report.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindCassoday$10,000Strong winds inflicted some damage to a barn roof.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCassoday-One to two inch diameter tree limbs knocked down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCassoday-There were highways signed ripped off their posts along with a 3-foot diameter tree downed.
October 2023Heavy RainCassoday-A station near Cassoday measured 5.47 inches of rain in the past 24 hours. Rainfall amounts across the county ranged from 3.19 to 5.47 inches.
May 2022HailCassoday-Most of the hail stones were quarter size, however, a few were slightly larger up to a half dollar size.
May 2022HailCassoday-This report was relayed via mPING.
July 2020Heavy RainCassoday-This is a 24 hour rainfall report of 4.19 inches.
May 2019FloodCassoday-Water was reported covering Highway 177 about two miles southwest of Cassoday.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCassoday-Some branches of unspecified diameters were blown down.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCassoday-Relayed via the public.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCassoday-Relayed via a trained spotter.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindCassoday-A viewer called in and reported damage to their shed.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Cassoday-A weak tornado formed on the leading edge of a bow echo and moved over open country. No damage was reported from this touchdown.
June 2018FloodCassoday-Some rural roads are impassable due to water over them.
May 2017Tornado (EF0)Cassoday-Emergency Manager reported multiple funnels and several very brief touchdowns over a one minute period. The longest of which was on the ground for about 30 seconds. |All activity occurred over an open field and no damage was noted.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindCassoday-Reported by a trained spotter.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindCassoday-Nickel-sized hail was also reported.
July 2016HailCassoday-The emergency manager reported dime to quarter size hail along the Kansas Turnpike.
May 2015FloodCassoday-Around 2 inches of rain had fallen across the area and some low lying areas were starting to see some minor flooding with water over the roads. El Dorado also reported a few main roads with water over them in downtown.
May 2014HailCassoday-No damage was reported.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindCassoday-Reported on the Kansas turnpike at mile post 97.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindCassoday-The wind gust was reported by a trained spotter.
May 2010HailCassoday-Estimated winds of 50 mph accompanied the hail.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCassoday-A trained spotter estimated 60 to 70 mph winds about 3 miles southwest of Cassoday.
August 2010HailCassoday-The hail occurred with 40 mph winds and torrential rain.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindCassoday-Winds of 50 to 60 mph along with pea size hail occurred at mile marker 85 on the Kansas Turnpike.
April 2008HailCassoday-Reported by the Kansas Turnpike Authority.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindCassoday-Co-op observer.
April 2026HailCassoday-no account filed
April 2026HailCassoday-no account filed
April 2026HailCassoday-no account filed
April 2023HailCassoday-no account filed
April 2022HailCassoday-no account filed
May 2019HailCassoday-no account filed
May 2019HailCassoday-no account filed
May 2019HailCassoday-no account filed
May 2019HailCassoday-no account filed
March 2016HailCassoday-no account filed
March 2016HailCassoday-no account filed
March 2016HailCassoday-no account filed
February 2012HailCassoday-no account filed
April 2012HailCassoday-no account filed
April 2010HailCassoday-no account filed
June 2009HailCassoday-no account filed
May 2009HailCassoday-no account filed
April 2006HailCassoday-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCassoday-no account filed
May 2004HailCassoday-no account filed
April 2003HailCassoday-no account filed
April 2003HailCassoday-no account filed
April 2003HailCassoday-no account filed
May 2001HailCassoday-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindCassoday-no account filed
August 2000HailCassoday-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Aikman4.0 miles14
Chelsea11.8 miles14
De Graff12.5 miles14
Rosalia15.5 miles14
Summit15.5 miles14
Pontiac15.8 miles13
Prospect17.9 miles14
East El Dorado18.3 miles14

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 CassodayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2091695The 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 478041. 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.

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.