Waldo, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 50 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1941 1991

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 Historic Districtlisted 2001

Waldo fell from 1,015 to 846 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.

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.

• 1941 USGS Starke quadrangle1:62500
• 1948 USGS Starke quadrangle1:50000
• 1949 USGS Starke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Waldo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1991 USGS Waldo quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Waldo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,643 acres in total. 61 started naturally. 22 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Shenks
• Earleton
• Lake Alto Estates
• Santa Fe Beach
• Orange Heights
• Louise

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,009 specimens collected within 10 miles of Waldo between 1850 and 1975: 527 Animalia, 395 Fungi, 55 Plantae, 15 Protozoa, 10 Chromista, 7 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Arata, A. Laessle, A. S. Rhoads and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Periconia pycnospora Fresen.	1899	von Noszky, H.	Earleton, Fla. [Florida]
	Sorosporium everhartii Ellis & Galloway	1900	Hume, H. Harold	Orange Heights
	Sphacelotheca nealii (Ellis & F.W.Anderson) G.P.Clinton	1900	H. Harold Hume	Orange Heights
	Burmannia biflora L.	1850	H Gillman
	Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood	1850	H Gillman
	Cyperus croceus Vahl	1850	H Gillman
	Cyperus lecontei Torr. ex Steud.	1850	H Gillman
	Cyperus retrorsus Chapm.	1850	H Gillman
	Fimbristylis vahlii (Lam.) Link	1850	H Gillman
	Hypericum myrtifolium Lam.	1850	H Gillman
	Saccharum alopecuroides (L.) Nutt.	1850	H Gillman
	Sida acuta Burm.fil.	1850	H Gillman

All 1,009 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waldo in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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.

Every storm recorded in Alachua County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 292824. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.