The city of Ithaca, New York, site of Ithaca College and Cornell University, is located at the southern end of Cayuga Lake.

Villages and settlements along the east shore of Cayuga Lake include Myers, King Ferry, Aurora, Levanna, Union Springs, and Cayuga.

Cayuga Lake is located at ; above sea level.

Winter view of the head of Cayuga Lake

Cayuga Lake is very popular among recreational boaters.

Cayuga Lake is the source of drinking water for several communities, including Lansing near the southern end of the lake along the east side, which draws water through the Bolton Point Municipal Water system.

The AES Cayuga electrical generating station operates in the Town of Lansing, on the east shore of Cayuga Lake.

This coal-fired plant uses Cayuga Lake as a cooling source.

In the late 1960s, citizens successfully opposed the construction of an 830-MW nuclear power plant on the shore of Cayuga Lake.

Cayuga Lake, like nearby Seneca Lake, is also the site of a phenomenon known as the Guns of the Seneca, mysterious cannon-like booms heard in the surrounding area.

Serling and his family had a summer home at Cayuga Lake.

* World Lakes Database entry for Cayuga Lake.

* Cayuga Lake Defense Fund

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The two longest, Cayuga Lake and Seneca Lake, are among the deepest in America.

The eleven Finger Lakes from east to west are: Otisco Lake, Skaneateles Lake, Owasco Lake, Cayuga Lake, Seneca Lake, Keuka Lake, Canandaigua Lake, Honeoye Lake, Canadice Lake, Hemlock Lake, and Conesus Lake.

Newport is located just east of State Road 63, a few miles south of Cayuga ; it is the county seat, although it is one of the smallest towns in the county.

CSX Transportation operates a railroad line running from Danville, Illinois to Terre Haute ; this line runs most of the length of Vermillion County from north to south, passing through Rilesyburg, Cayuga, and Clinton before crossing the Wabash River.

Vermilion County is named after the Vermilion River, which passes through the county and empties into the Wabash River in Indiana near Cayuga ; the river was so named because of the color of the earth along its route.

Hiawatha Seaway Council approved the merger on Jun 10, 2008 ; on June 24, 2009 a proposal to merge was tabled by the Cayuga County Council executive board.

* Seven Lakes Council, the largest of the original five, served Allegany, Cayuga, Chemung, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins, Yates and Wayne Counties ; and in Pennsylvania: Bradford and Tioga Counties

It was later renamed after the village of Cayuga and Cayuga Lake in the state of New York ; an early settler named John Groenendyke had originally come from Cayuga County, New York and moved to Vigo County in 1818, then in 1819 moved to the area that later became Vermillion County.

* Cayuga Creek – A stream flowing westward through the town and village ; flowing through Como Lake Park.

Four elders from the Oglala Sioux Tribe, along with Fay and members of the Lakota, Seneca, Mohawk, and Cayuga tribes, performed a naming ceremony on July 28 at the farm ; the calf was named Yellow Medicine Dancing Boy.

: The campus is three miles from Long Point State Park ; the scenic town of Aurora lies a short distance to its north ; and Cayuga lake adds beauty to the scenery year round.

Opened in 2003, the Regional Economic Center housed classrooms for Cayuga students ; the offices of several agencies providing employment services to area residents ; the new home of the college ’ s NASA-sponsored Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology ; and the college ’ s Business and Industry Center, a workforce training complex.

The year of 1913 saw the merger of CSL with Northern Navigation Company, the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company, and the Niagara Navigation Company, which resulted in the acquisition of several passenger vessels, including the vessels Chicora, Carona, Chippewa and Cayuga ; built 1864 (?

Her name was changed to Cayuga ( YT-12 ) in 1917 ; she was scrapped in 1928.

The oldest continually operating dragstrip in Canada and the fastest high bank oval race track in Canada, are located near the townsite ; Cayuga International Speedway.

Of the Lake-Iroquois languages, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca are extant, with only Mohawk having greater than a thousand speakers ( ibid ; Michelson 3 ).

( Of the Iroquois Six Nations, the Oneida and many Tuscarora sided with the rebel forces ; the Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga and Cayuga remained loyal to Great Britain.

The line was opened in sections: from Rochester to Canandaigua on 19 September 1840 ; to Seneca Falls on 9 June 1841 ; to Cayuga on 18 September 1841 ; and to the terminus in Auburn on 4 November 1841.

Tammy Rahr ( Cayuga ) is a contemporary practitioner of this style.

Cayuga lake is included in the American Viticultural Area with which it shares its name.

Cayuga is the longest ( 38. 1 miles, 61 km ) and Seneca the largest in total area.

Seneca is the deepest ( 618 feet, 188 m ), followed by Cayuga ( 435 feet, 133 m ), with their bottoms well below sea level.

The college is set against the backdrop of Cayuga Lake, Cornell University, and several waterfalls and gorges.

Niagara Falls ( Cayuga: Gahnawehtaˀ or Tgahnawęhtaˀ ) is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U. S. state of New York.

Cayuga County is a county located in the U. S. state of New York.

Cayuga County is located in the west central part of the state, in the Finger Lakes region.

Owasco Lake is in the center of the county, and Cayuga Lake forms part of the western boundary.

Cayuga County is considered a swing county in national elections.

Oswego County is also home to two colleges: State University of New York at Oswego located in the Town of Oswego and the Fulton Branch Campus of Cayuga County Community College located in the City of Fulton.

Seneca County is in the western part of New York in the Finger Lakes Region, bounded on the east by Cayuga Lake and on the west by Seneca Lake.

Cayuga is located near the confluence of the Vermillion and Wabash rivers, along State Road 63 just west of its intersection with State Road 234.

Eugene Township, which contains Cayuga, has just one unincorporated community: Eugene, which is just north of Cayuga.