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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.

Cairo within Hall County

Population over time

2 figures

Cairo 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.

YearPeople Change
2010785
2020822+37 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

Storms near this place

50 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1997Tornado (F1)Cairo$750,000no account filed
August 2017HailCairo$250,000Quarter size hail was accompanied by 60 MPH winds.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindCairo$250,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH accompanied hail to the size of quarters.
June 2022HailCairo$200,000no account filed
May 2003HailCairo$200,000no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindCairo$150,000no account filed
June 2020HailCairo$100,000Hail ranging in size from quarters to ping pong balls was reported along the path.
June 2014HailCairo$100,000Hail up to Golf Ball size was falling off and on for 15 minutes.
May 2005HailCairo$100,000no account filed
June 1997HailCairo$100,000no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindCairo$75,000Wind 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 1997HailCairo$50,000no account filed
July 1995HailCairo$50,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindCairo$40,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindCairo$40,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindCairo$40,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindCairo$30,000no account filed
May 2005HailCairo$25,000no account filed
May 2005HailCairo$25,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCairo$15,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCairo$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCairo$5,000no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindCairo$5,000no account filed
April 2024Thunderstorm WindCairo$1,000Minor damage was reported at the local ball field as well as to the roof of a nearby metal outbuilding.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCairo-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH. Visibility was reduced due to blowing dust.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCairo-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCairo-A wind gust of 64 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located eight miles northwest of Wood River.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCairo-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 2017Heavy RainCairo-A storm total rainfall amount of 4.55 inches was measured.
June 2014HailCairo-Nickel to quarter size hail fell.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindCairo-A 60 mph wind gust occurred with a severe thunderstorm.
April 2025HailCairo-no account filed
April 2025HailCairo-no account filed
May 2022HailCairo-no account filed
July 2022HailCairo-no account filed
June 2020HailCairo-no account filed
August 2014HailCairo-no account filed
May 2013HailCairo-no account filed
October 2011HailCairo-no account filed
July 2009HailCairo-no account filed
March 2006HailCairo-no account filed
May 2005HailCairo-no account filed
May 2005Funnel CloudCairo-no account filed
August 2005HailCairo-no account filed
May 2004HailCairo-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCairo-no account filed
May 2001HailCairo-no account filed
May 1999HailCairo-no account filed
September 1998HailCairo-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindCairo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hall 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
Cameron6.0 miles13
Abbott6.9 miles17
Ovina8.4 miles17
Alda11.6 miles16
Wood River12.5 miles15
Pioneer Estates14.3 miles17
Grand Island15.0 miles17
Parkview15.4 miles17

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 Q2788595The 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.