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Waldo, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Talladega census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35160. It stands on Mump Creek. The Survey maps it on the Talladega quadrangle. 258 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 705 feet above sea level.

Waldo within Talladega County

Population over time

2 figures

Waldo fell from 283 to 258 between 2010 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
2010283
2020258-25 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

452 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 452 fires within 5 miles of Waldo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,746 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 212 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
Arson/incendiarism212
Debris and open burning91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Railroad operations and maintenance44
Recreation and ceremony21
Natural18
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2006Railroad operations and maintenance57 acresNational Forests in AlabamaMUMP CREEK
8 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNational Forests in Alabama4-STRIKES
30 September 2007Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionIRONATON ROAD, AL
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190929-5
29 September 2003Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talladega County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Waldo: 14 past producers, 8 unknowns, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Sulfides, Silver, Sulfides. 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
Gold Log MineCopper, Silver, GoldPast Producer1874
Parsons MineAluminum, IronPast Producer
Woodward ProspectGold, Silver, SulfidesOccurrenceGold, Silver
Woodward ProspectGold, SilverProspect
Gold Log MineGold, SulfidesPast Producer1875
Story MineGold, SulfidesPast ProducerGold, Pyrite
Gold Log MineGoldPast Producer
Jone's Limonite BanksIronPast ProducerResidual
Riddle's Mill MineGoldProspectVein
Riddle's Mill MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Talladega 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
Carara1.4 miles22
Stockdale2.9 miles22
Woolfolk3.0 miles14
Chandler Springs3.8 miles15
Mount Olive Circle3.9 miles22
Smelley4.2 miles22
Ironaton4.4 miles14
McCannsville4.5 miles22

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 WaldoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65859The 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 160790. 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.