Cayuga, Texas
Unincorporated community in Anderson County · Not an incorporated municipality
About Cayuga
Cayuga is an unincorporated community in northwestern Anderson County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 200 in 2000. It is located within the Palestine, Texas micropolitan area.
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How Cayuga is governed
Cayuga appears to be an unincorporated community or a census-designated place, so it may have no city government of its own — services usually come from Anderson County and its elected officials. The chart below is a generic template; readers can correct it if Cayuga does have local officials.
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Residents of Cayuga
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The budget, taxes, and city accounts.
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City Clerk
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City Attorney
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History
Cayuga was so named in 1894 by the first postmaster, William Alonzo Davenport, after his native Cayuga, New York. The community began to grow in the 1880s, gathering people and resources from the earlier communities: Gilmore's Chapel, Wild Cat Bluff and Bethel, all settled in the late 1840s and early 1850s.
In 1854, the Judson Baptist Church began at an arbor near Charles Gilmore's home. There the settlers established the first Methodist Church in the northwestern part of Anderson County, and later Judson Baptist Church, in a brush arbor, and a cemetery (originally, Gilmore's Chapel Cemetery, now abandoned but called Old Judson Cemetery or just "lost cemetery"). Judson Church moved to the location of the Judson Cemetery soon thereafter. In 1911 it moved to a site on land donated by H. S. Clay in 1911, and later to its present location. The Joppa Holiness Church served Cayuga from 1899 to 1907, and the Freeman Baptist Church held regular services from 1910 to 1934.
Cayuga remained a small farming community until 1934 when the Tidewater Oil Company discovered oil in a new field; the Discovery Well was the J.N. Edens No. 1. That discovery caused Cayuga to become an oil boomtown overnight. By 1936, it had over 1,000 residents and 15 businesses. It began to go away after World War II, and the community's population plunged to 200 by 1952. It plunged again to 56 residents by 1974, and only two businesses were located in the community. The community was revived when the Richland-Chambers Creek Reservoir was discovered in nearby Freestone and Navarro counties and when four state prisons were established in the area. Large lignite reserves were discovered in the area not long after. Approximately 700 people lived in Cayuga in 1988 and there were several businesses, which included offices of two major petroleum companies in the area. The population plunged to a paltry 56 in 1990 and grew to 200 in 2000.
Cayuga has a post office with the ZIP code 75832.
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