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.
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
Waldo Water Towerlisted 2007
Population over time
2 figuresWaldo 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,372 | |
| 2020 | 1,151 | -221 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Waldo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Magnolia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
86 since 1998Regional 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/undetermined | 30 |
| Debris and open burning | 27 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unk | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Bromine | Past Producer | ||
| Lambert & Barr,Inc | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
32 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down and a barn received some roof damage. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | $5,000 | Several trees were downed. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | $500 | A few trees were blown down. |
| July 2023 | Heavy Rain | Waldo | - | A storm total rainfall report of 6.95 inches was measured a couple miles south-southwest of Waldo. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Waldo | - | Quarter size hail fell in Waldo. Report from the KTBS-TV Facebook page. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | A tree was blown onto a power line on South Olive Street in Waldo. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | Numerous trees and powerlines were downed in Waldo, Arkansas. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | Trees and powerlines were downed. |
| March 2008 | Hail | Waldo | - | Multiple reports of penny to golfball sized hail in Waldo, Arkansas. |
| March 2008 | Hail | Waldo | - | Quarter sized hail reported in the community of Waldo, Arkansas. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | Trees were downed across Warnock Springs Road near Wilson Store. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | Trees and power lines were downed in town as well as across County Road 45. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | Trees downed along Hwy 371. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | Trees and power lines downed at Lamartine. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | Numerous trees toppled along Highway 344 near Lake Columbia. |
| December 2001 | Flash Flood | Waldo | - | Numerous roads were flooded and closed to traffic. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | Several trees down. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | Several trees and powerlines down. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | Several large trees and powerlines down. |
| May 1998 | Flash Flood | Waldo | - | Highway 82 was underwater and closed. |
| November 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | Several reports of downed trees. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| January 2008 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| October 1993 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lumber | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Lamartine | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Emon | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Shiloh | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Jefferson | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Beech Creek | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| McNeil | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Mount Vernon | 4.7 miles | 12 |
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 Waldo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79631 | The 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.






