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Cairo, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Cairo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65239. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville quadrangle. 205 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Cairo within Randolph County

Population over time

2 figures

Cairo fell from 292 to 205 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
2010292
2020205-87 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

17 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Cairo between 2001 and 2020, burning about 126 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6
Smoking5

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
3 July 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 July 2018Smoking1.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178099-08853-07212018-2030
13 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178109-08853-07132018-1840
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178108-08853-07112018-1510
24 June 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined68 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178097-08853-04072018-1515
4 April 2019Smoking4.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179733-08853-04042019-1400
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178104-08853-04292018-1645

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

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 Cairo: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cairo in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2015: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
February 2011Thunderstorm WindCairo$200,000Straight line wind damage was reported, with significant roof damage to a home. The winds were estimated up to 80 mph. A garage was also destroyed. A couple of grain silo's were flattened and blown across open fields. A tractor trailer and several cars were blown off the road.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCairo$75,000Barn destroyed, along with several trailers at a trailer sales park.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindCairo$5,000Car Port torn away from a mobile home.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCairo-Several trees were blown down along Highway Z and Highway DD. Parts of Moberly and Clifton Hill were without power. The AWOS site near Moberly reported 68 mph winds with the storms that came through.
May 2009HailCairo-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCairo-no account filed
May 2003HailCairo-no account filed
May 2003HailCairo-no account filed
May 2000HailCairo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Jacksonville5.5 miles11
Kimberly6.1 miles18
Moberly6.5 miles18
Milton6.6 miles15
Levick Mill6.7 miles10
Huntsville7.4 miles16
Darksville8.0 miles9
Urbandale8.1 miles18

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 CairoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2456665The 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 729287. 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.