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Cayuse, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Umatilla Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97801. It stands on Moonshine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cayuse quadrangle. 66 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,417 feet above sea level.

Cayuse within Umatilla County

Population over time

3 figures

Cayuse grew from 59 to 66 between 2000 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
200059
201068+9 (+15%)
202066-2 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Cayuse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,654 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 8 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
Equipment and vehicle use29
Debris and open burning18
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Fireworks9
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking5

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
8 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use40 acresUmatilla AgencyBLAKELY
8 September 1993Fireworksunder an acreUmatilla AgencyCAYUSE
7 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreUmatilla AgencyN CAYUSE
7 September 1994Smoking1.5 acresUmatilla AgencyLITTLE
6 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance110 acresUmatilla AgencyTM 230.5
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUmatilla AgencyRIVER BANK
4 September 2019Naturalunder an acreUmatilla AgencyCEMETARY
4 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUmatilla AgencyCAYUSERDM8

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Umatilla County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Cayuse: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cayuse QuarryStonePast Producer
Cayuse QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Grubbs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Grubbs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
SampsonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sampson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Umatilla County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cayuse in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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
May 2009Tornado (EF1)Cayuse$50,000Storm observed by farm workers at Ruggs Ranch. One hundred foot section of workshop metal roof torn off and carried up to 1/2 mile. Fifty-gallon drums thrown up to 1/4 mile. Trees uprooted and limbs down. Wooden plank driven through metal building.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCayuse-Minor tree damage reported.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCayuse-Several branches up to 5 inches in diameter blown down.
April 2013FloodCayuse-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Umatilla 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
Kirkpatrick5.6 miles11
Adams6.3 miles10
Mission6.7 miles11
Tutuilla8.4 miles11
Riverside9.6 miles11
Athena10.0 miles8
Gibbon10.3 miles9
Fulton10.9 miles11

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 CayuseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2520164The 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 1136129. 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.