Cayuga, New York
26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Aurelius town. It lies in ZIP code area 13034. The Survey maps it on the Cayuga quadrangle. 472 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 482 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1899 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Cayuga
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Hutchinson Homesteadlisted 2009
Population over time
2 figuresCayuga fell from 549 to 472 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 | 549 | |
| 2020 | 472 | -77 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 26 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 Auburn quadrangle1:62500
- 1902 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1943 USGS Cayuga quadrangle1:31680
- 1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Cayuga quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
62 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Cayuga between 1997 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 20 were 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 | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 5 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 26 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.3 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 14 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 August 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 29 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cayuga: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Salt. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seneca Falls Well No.12 | Salt | Past Producer | ||
| Cayuga Junction Quarry | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| Cross Roads Station Quarry | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| Hibiscus Point Quarry | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cayuga in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cayuga | - | SKYWARN storm spotters reported wires down following a thunderstorm in the town of Aurelius, near Cayuga. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cayuga Junction | 3.6 miles | 27 | |
| Relius | 3.6 miles | 26 | |
| Cross Roads | 3.6 miles | 26 | |
| Fosterville | 3.9 miles | 26 | |
| Oakwood | 4.7 miles | 26 | |
| Powers Corner | 5.3 miles | 27 | |
| Half Acre | 5.4 miles | 28 | |
| Union Springs | 5.7 miles | 27 |
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 Q1020585 | 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 946081. 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.









