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Waldo, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Waldo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71770. The Survey maps it on the Waldo quadrangle. 1,151 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 361 feet above sea level.

Waldo within Columbia County

On record in Waldo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Waldo fell from 1,372 to 1,151 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
20101,372
20201,151-221 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

86 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Waldo between 1998 and 2020, burning about 878 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 16 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Debris and open burning27
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Waldo: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Bromine. 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
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkBrominePast Producer
Lambert & Barr,IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waldo in 32 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 15 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindWaldo$5,000Several trees were blown down and a barn received some roof damage.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindWaldo$5,000Several trees were downed.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWaldo$500A few trees were blown down.
July 2023Heavy RainWaldo-A storm total rainfall report of 6.95 inches was measured a couple miles south-southwest of Waldo.
April 2017HailWaldo-Quarter size hail fell in Waldo. Report from the KTBS-TV Facebook page.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindWaldo-A tree was blown onto a power line on South Olive Street in Waldo.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindWaldo-Numerous trees and powerlines were downed in Waldo, Arkansas.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWaldo-Trees and powerlines were downed.
March 2008HailWaldo-Multiple reports of penny to golfball sized hail in Waldo, Arkansas.
March 2008HailWaldo-Quarter sized hail reported in the community of Waldo, Arkansas.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindWaldo-Trees were downed across Warnock Springs Road near Wilson Store.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindWaldo-Trees and power lines were downed in town as well as across County Road 45.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindWaldo-Trees downed along Hwy 371.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWaldo-Trees and power lines downed at Lamartine.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindWaldo-Numerous trees toppled along Highway 344 near Lake Columbia.
December 2001Flash FloodWaldo-Numerous roads were flooded and closed to traffic.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindWaldo-Several trees down.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindWaldo-Several trees and powerlines down.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindWaldo-Several large trees and powerlines down.
May 1998Flash FloodWaldo-Highway 82 was underwater and closed.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindWaldo-Several reports of downed trees.
April 2011HailWaldo-no account filed
January 2008HailWaldo-no account filed
March 2008HailWaldo-no account filed
May 2006HailWaldo-no account filed
May 2003HailWaldo-no account filed
May 1998HailWaldo-no account filed
May 1998HailWaldo-no account filed
March 1996HailWaldo-no account filed
March 1996HailWaldo-no account filed
April 1994HailWaldo-no account filed
October 1993HailWaldo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Lumber2.7 miles13
Lamartine2.9 miles13
Emon3.1 miles14
Shiloh3.1 miles13
Jefferson3.9 miles13
Beech Creek4.0 miles13
McNeil4.6 miles14
Mount Vernon4.7 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 WaldoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79631The 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 58813. 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.

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.