| Cayuga, Illinois | |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Illinois |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Livingston |
| Subdivision Type3: | Township |
| Subdivision Name3: | Odell |
| Pushpin Map: | Illinois#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Cayuga |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Illinois##Location in the United States |
| Coordinates: | 40.9411°N -88.5836°W |
| Elevation Ft: | 689 |
| Population As Of: | 2000 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CST |
| Utc Offset1: | -6 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | -5 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 61764 |
| Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank Info: | 405724 |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
Cayuga is an unincorporated community in Livingston County, Illinois, United States, and is located northeast of Pontiac. Never that large to begin with, all that remains is an abandoned grain elevator and depot along the Union Pacific.
The Chicago & Alton Railroad was built through the area in 1853. Cayuga was platted by Thomas F. Norton two years later, for Corydon Weed.[2] Population peaked as a village with 160 people in 1898. What would become Route 66 was built along Cayuga in the 1910s. At one point there was a school and two churches, a Presbyterian and a Lutheran.[3] The only documented owner of the grain elevator was the defunct Middle Division Elevator Co.[3] By 1955 the population had dropped to only 60 people.[4]
The average high and low temperatures are 85F and 63F, respectively, during the summer and 30F and 17F, respectively, during the winter.[2]