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Cayuga, North Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cayuga City. It lies in ZIP code area 58013. The Survey maps it on the Cayuga quadrangle. 40 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,142 feet above sea level.

Cayuga within Sargent County

Population over time

2 figures

Cayuga grew from 27 to 40 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
201027
202040+13 (+48%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Cayuga between 2002 and 2016, burning about 249 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 July 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBILL WALSH
15 July 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTewaukon National Wildlife RefugeCASE
8 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTewaukon National Wildlife RefugeANDERSON
4 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined180 acresTewaukon National Wildlife RefugePWK
2 November 2011Arson/incendiarism4.2 acresTewaukon National Wildlife RefugePWK II
4 October 2008Natural1.0 acresTewaukon National Wildlife RefugeRUTLAND/CAYUGA VFD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sargent County

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cayuga in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 14 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCayuga$150,000Numerous large tree limbs were broken down around town. Roofing materials were also torn off of buildings. Wind damage throughout Ransom and Kingston townships indicated widespread peak winds from 70 to 80 mph with episodes of wind driven hail.
May 1996HailCayuga$50,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindCayuga$2,000The wind blew the roof off a shed.
July 2025HailCayuga-Photo showing collection of hail estimated to be the size of half dollars. Time estimated by radar.
July 2013Tornado (EF0)Cayuga-A brief tornado touchdown was viewed over open rangeland. A dust plume was raised but no damage was otherwise observed. Peak winds were estimated at 70 mph.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindCayuga-Trees were uprooted in Cayuga from the strong winds.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCayuga-Large tree branches were blown down onto a car and broke the windshield.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindCayuga-Large tree branches were blown down.
June 2006Funnel CloudCayuga-A persistent wall cloud and a brief funnel were reported north of Cayuga.
June 2005Flash FloodCayuga-Basement flooding was reported in Cayuga.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCayuga-Trees were blown down all over town. One tree fell on a house.
June 2005Flash FloodCayuga-Fields and farm access roads were flooded. Over 4 inches of rain fell in an hour.
June 2005HailCayuga-Hail from penny to ping pong ball size fell over Tewaukon Lake.
May 2004Flash FloodCayuga-Two to three inches of rain fell over portions of Sargent county. Several roads were closed and basements were flooded.
August 2004HailCayuga-The hail was three inches deep next to the house.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCayuga-A 66 mph wind gust was measured by a RAWS mesonet site at the Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge.
July 2014HailCayuga-no account filed
September 2014HailCayuga-no account filed
May 2013HailCayuga-no account filed
April 2006HailCayuga-no account filed
June 2006HailCayuga-no account filed
June 2006HailCayuga-no account filed
July 2002HailCayuga-no account filed
August 2001HailCayuga-no account filed
June 1997HailCayuga-no account filed
June 1997HailCayuga-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sargent 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
Ransom City (historical)1.5 miles9
Geneseo5.6 miles9
Rutland6.8 miles8
Hamlin8.2 miles10
Milnor13.3 miles10
Forman13.6 miles7
De Lamere13.6 miles10
Havana15.1 miles6

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 Q945989The 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 1028306. 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.