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Cayuga, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Cayuga census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75751. The Survey maps it on the Cayuga quadrangle. It stands 308 feet above sea level.

Cayuga within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

117 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Cayuga between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,224 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use19
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOCKRIDGE FIRE
30 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHADY OAKS
3 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBARNETT FIRE
29 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBETHEL & CAYUGA FIRE
24 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 287 DITCH FIRE
23 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use9.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cayuga in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 15 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
November 1994Tornado (F1)Cayuga$500,000An elementary school was unroofed and a bus barn was destroyed by a tornado. Three homes were also damaged or destroyed. Damage was estimated at $255,000.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCayuga$80,000The Cooke County Emergency Manager and a Cooke County Commissioner reported several large trees were blown down. The tree damage was concentrated in the southern third of the county, along or near County Roads 337, 328 and 348. One mobile home in the same area suffered severe damage.
October 2015Flash FloodCayuga$50,000Flood waters were reported over a bridge on Highway 287 near Cayuga. High water was also reported on FM 59 north of Cayuga.
January 1999LightningCayuga$50,000A church was destroyed by fire after a lightning strike.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindCayuga$50,000A house was unroofed by high winds.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCayuga$20,000A roof was blown off of a carport near Tennessee Colony. Numerous trees and power poles were blown down.
April 2012HailCayuga$10,000A trained spotter measured 2 hail approximately 1 mile east of Cayuga.
April 2012HailCayuga$7,000Golf ball sized hail was reported 1 mile northeast of Cayuga.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindCayuga$6,000A 60-70 mph wind gust was estimated in the Bethel-Cayuga area.
April 2021HailCayuga$5,000Half dollar to ping pong ball sized hail fell for several minutes approximately 15 miles south-southeast of Trinidad.
October 1994Thunderstorm WindCayuga$5,000Trees were blown down by high winds.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindCayuga$3,000A trained spotter reported 65 mph thunderstorm winds approximately 1 mile east of Cayuga.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCayuga$3,000Large trees were down in Cayuga.
November 2024HailCayuga-Half dollar sized hail was reported around 5 miles west of Sanger via mPING.
October 2015FloodCayuga-Several county roads remained closed due to high waters from flooding after 5-13 inches of rain fell across the northern portions of the county. Many creeks and streams also remained out of their banks flooding surrounding locations. Some the flooding was attributed to drainage and runoff from swollen creeks, streams, and rivers located north of the county.
April 2012HailCayuga-Nickel sized hail was reported north of Cayuga.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCayuga-The report was from a weathernet site in Cayuga.
January 1998Flash FloodCayuga-Several roads in and around town were reported flooded.
April 2021HailCayuga-no account filed
April 2006HailCayuga-no account filed
May 2006HailCayuga-no account filed
May 2006HailCayuga-no account filed
April 2004HailCayuga-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCayuga-no account filed
May 2003HailCayuga-no account filed
January 1998HailCayuga-no account filed
February 1998HailCayuga-no account filed
June 1997HailCayuga-no account filed
March 1996HailCayuga-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Bethel3.9 miles12
Greens Bluff6.0 miles12
Yard6.6 miles12
Blackfoot7.4 miles12
Springfield9.2 miles12
Ward9.6 miles12
Tennessee Colony11.1 miles12
Bradford11.2 miles12

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 CayugaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5055463The 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 1379518. 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.