Cairo, Nebraska
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in South Loup Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68824. The Survey maps it on the Dannebrog quadrangle. 822 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,952 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCairo grew from 785 to 822 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 | 785 | |
| 2020 | 822 | +37 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 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.
- 1899 USGS Loup quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Dannebrog quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Broken Bow quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
50 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cairo in 50 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 28 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Cairo | $750,000 | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Cairo | $250,000 | Quarter size hail was accompanied by 60 MPH winds. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $250,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH accompanied hail to the size of quarters. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Cairo | $200,000 | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Cairo | $200,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $150,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Cairo | $100,000 | Hail ranging in size from quarters to ping pong balls was reported along the path. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Cairo | $100,000 | Hail up to Golf Ball size was falling off and on for 15 minutes. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Cairo | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Cairo | $100,000 | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $75,000 | Wind gusts along this path were estimated to be between 60 and 70 MPH, with the strongest wind being in the Cairo area and generally a bit weaker in Grand Island. There were several reports of large tree limbs being downed in the area, some as large as 8-9 inches in diameter. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Cairo | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Cairo | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $40,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $40,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $40,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $30,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Cairo | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Cairo | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $1,000 | Minor damage was reported at the local ball field as well as to the roof of a nearby metal outbuilding. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH. Visibility was reduced due to blowing dust. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | - | A wind gust of 64 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located eight miles northwest of Wood River. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | - | A 69 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located 1 mile south of Cairo. Wind gusts estimated to be at least 60 MPH were reported in Cairo. Approximately three miles south-southeast of Cairo, near the intersection of Airport Road and Burwick Road, a motorist struck a large tree that had been blown down and died from his injuries. |
| July 2017 | Heavy Rain | Cairo | - | A storm total rainfall amount of 4.55 inches was measured. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Cairo | - | Nickel to quarter size hail fell. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | - | A 60 mph wind gust occurred with a severe thunderstorm. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| October 2011 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Cairo | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameron | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Abbott | 6.9 miles | 17 | |
| Ovina | 8.4 miles | 17 | |
| Alda | 11.6 miles | 16 | |
| Wood River | 12.5 miles | 15 | |
| Pioneer Estates | 14.3 miles | 17 | |
| Grand Island | 15.0 miles | 17 | |
| Parkview | 15.4 miles | 17 |
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 Q2788595 | 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 827842. 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.
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.




