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.
Population over time
2 figuresCassoday 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 129 | |
| 2020 | 113 | -16 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 14 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.
- 1898 USGS Cottonwood Falls quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Cassoday quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 1994Regional 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/undetermined | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 43 |
| 18 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 41 |
| 4 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 29 |
| 14 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Butler County | 184 |
| 30 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 26 |
| 22 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 25 |
| 19 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 21 |
| 7 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 16 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 66 shownRegional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | 1 hurt, $5,000,000 | Damaging 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 1999 | Hail | Cassoday | $60,000 | Tennis ball-sized hail damaged 5 vehicles and inflicted roof damage to several houses. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | $50,000 | RADIO TOWER, 192 FEET TALL, TIPPED OVER, LANDING ON TOP OF GAS STATION. |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | $25,000 | Semi overturned on Kansas turnpike at mile marker 73. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | $25,000 | A 20 X 24 foot shed damaged. Area newspapers contributed to this report. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | $25,000 | Winds 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | $10,000 | Strong winds inflicted some damage to a barn roof. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | - | One to two inch diameter tree limbs knocked down. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | - | There were highways signed ripped off their posts along with a 3-foot diameter tree downed. |
| October 2023 | Heavy Rain | Cassoday | - | 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 2022 | Hail | Cassoday | - | Most of the hail stones were quarter size, however, a few were slightly larger up to a half dollar size. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Cassoday | - | This report was relayed via mPING. |
| July 2020 | Heavy Rain | Cassoday | - | This is a 24 hour rainfall report of 4.19 inches. |
| May 2019 | Flood | Cassoday | - | Water was reported covering Highway 177 about two miles southwest of Cassoday. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | - | Some branches of unspecified diameters were blown down. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | - | Relayed via the public. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | - | Relayed via a trained spotter. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | - | A viewer called in and reported damage to their shed. |
| May 2018 | Tornado (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 2018 | Flood | Cassoday | - | Some rural roads are impassable due to water over them. |
| May 2017 | Tornado (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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | - | Reported by a trained spotter. |
| March 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | - | Nickel-sized hail was also reported. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Cassoday | - | The emergency manager reported dime to quarter size hail along the Kansas Turnpike. |
| May 2015 | Flood | Cassoday | - | 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 2014 | Hail | Cassoday | - | No damage was reported. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | - | Reported on the Kansas turnpike at mile post 97. |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | - | The wind gust was reported by a trained spotter. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Cassoday | - | Estimated winds of 50 mph accompanied the hail. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | - | A trained spotter estimated 60 to 70 mph winds about 3 miles southwest of Cassoday. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Cassoday | - | The hail occurred with 40 mph winds and torrential rain. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | - | Winds of 50 to 60 mph along with pea size hail occurred at mile marker 85 on the Kansas Turnpike. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Cassoday | - | Reported by the Kansas Turnpike Authority. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | - | Co-op observer. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| February 2012 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cassoday | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Cassoday | - | 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.
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 Cassoday | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2091695 | 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 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.




