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.
Population over time
2 figuresCairo 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 292 | |
| 2020 | 205 | -87 (-30%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1908 USGS Macon quadrangle1:62500
- 1910 USGS Macon quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 2001Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 July 2018 | Smoking | 1.9 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178099-08853-07212018-2030 |
| 13 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178109-08853-07132018-1840 |
| 11 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178108-08853-07112018-1510 |
| 24 June 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 7 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 68 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178097-08853-04072018-1515 |
| 4 April 2019 | Smoking | 4.7 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179733-08853-04042019-1400 |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.1 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178104-08853-04292018-1645 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown - Limestone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Limestone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Limestone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Limestone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Limestone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Limestone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Limestone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Limestone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $200,000 | Straight 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $75,000 | Barn destroyed, along with several trailers at a trailer sales park. |
| February 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $5,000 | Car Port torn away from a mobile home. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | - | 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 2009 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Cairo | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Kimberly | 6.1 miles | 18 | |
| Moberly | 6.5 miles | 18 | |
| Milton | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Levick Mill | 6.7 miles | 10 | |
| Huntsville | 7.4 miles | 16 | |
| Darksville | 8.0 miles | 9 | |
| Urbandale | 8.1 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 Q2456665 | 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 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.







