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.
Population over time
2 figuresCayuga 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 27 | |
| 2020 | 40 | +13 (+48%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1907 USGS Wyndmere quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Cayuga quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
6 since 2002Regional 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BILL WALSH |
| 15 July 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge | CASE |
| 8 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge | ANDERSON |
| 4 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 180 acres | Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge | PWK |
| 2 November 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.2 acres | Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge | PWK II |
| 4 October 2008 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge | RUTLAND/CAYUGA VFD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cayuga | $150,000 | Numerous 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 1996 | Hail | Cayuga | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cayuga | $2,000 | The wind blew the roof off a shed. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Cayuga | - | Photo showing collection of hail estimated to be the size of half dollars. Time estimated by radar. |
| July 2013 | Tornado (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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cayuga | - | Trees were uprooted in Cayuga from the strong winds. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cayuga | - | Large tree branches were blown down onto a car and broke the windshield. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cayuga | - | Large tree branches were blown down. |
| June 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Cayuga | - | A persistent wall cloud and a brief funnel were reported north of Cayuga. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Cayuga | - | Basement flooding was reported in Cayuga. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cayuga | - | Trees were blown down all over town. One tree fell on a house. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Cayuga | - | Fields and farm access roads were flooded. Over 4 inches of rain fell in an hour. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Cayuga | - | Hail from penny to ping pong ball size fell over Tewaukon Lake. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Cayuga | - | Two to three inches of rain fell over portions of Sargent county. Several roads were closed and basements were flooded. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Cayuga | - | The hail was three inches deep next to the house. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cayuga | - | A 66 mph wind gust was measured by a RAWS mesonet site at the Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Cayuga | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Cayuga | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Cayuga | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Cayuga | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Cayuga | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Cayuga | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Cayuga | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Cayuga | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Cayuga | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Cayuga | - | 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 Cayuga | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q945989 | 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 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.





