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Waldo, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Waldo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67673. The Survey maps it on the Waldo quadrangle. 30 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,713 feet above sea level.

Waldo within Russell County

Population over time

2 figures

Waldo grew from 30 to 30 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
201030
2020300 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Waldo between 2015 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1

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
5 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service150022
24 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresKansas Forest Service150020
4 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service180014
28 April 2020Natural2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Russell County

Storms near this place

57 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waldo in 57 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 35 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWaldo$144,000Twenty five to thirty power poles were knocked from the high winds. The poles were located along Highway 281.
August 1997HailWaldo$50,000THOUGH NOT HAIL-RELATED, TORRENTIAL RAINS OCCURRING AT THE TIME ERODED A ONE FOOT THICK LIMESTONE WALL BENEATH A SIDEWALK AND FOOTBRIDGE, CAUSING BOTH TO CRUMBLE.
September 2008Flash FloodWaldo$10,000A local observer reported 5.25 inches of rain along Paradise Creek. This caused roads to flood along the creek and washed out some small bridges.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindWaldo$10,000Severe thunderstorm winds ripped an 8 foot by 37 foot section of roofing off a senior center.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindWaldo$3,000A sixty foot high tree was blown down. The tree was about two and half feet in diameter at its base.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindWaldo$1,000A tree was knocked down by estimated 60 mph winds. Pea size hail was also reported.
June 1998HailWaldo$1,000Two cars side-swiped on Highway 18. One patrol car sustained broken windshield. Part of the wheat crop also sustained damage.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWaldo$500A trained spotter reported wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph with some broken tree limbs.
May 2023HailWaldo-Reported relayed via Mping.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWaldo-A trained spotter measured a 58 mph wind gust.
July 2023HailWaldo-A spotter reported penny to quarter-sized hail covering the ground.
May 2019Tornado (EF2)Waldo-This large, strong tornado fortunately remained in rural areas as only a few power lines were snapped. It's especially fortunate that the tornado didn't strike a community as it was of course quite massive. The tornado was a county border-crosser as it moved northeast into Osborne County.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWaldo-No damage was reported.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWaldo-A large tree limb was also reported down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWaldo-Winds estimated around 60 mph downed some tree limbs.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWaldo-Multiple cedar trees were reported to be blown down.
April 2015HailWaldo-The hail was mostly nickel-sized.
August 2014HailWaldo-No damage was reported.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindWaldo-Winds were estimated around 60 mph.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindWaldo-Winds were estimated around 60 mph.
May 2011Flash FloodWaldo-Very heavy rainfall amounts on the order of 4 to 6 inches produced flooding across mainly northern portions of the county. Many roads were flooded, causing several road closures. A road was reportedly partially washed out one-quarter mile east of 194th and Beatty, about 5 miles south of Luray. Any property damage that may have occurred is unknown.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWaldo-County officials estimated winds of 60 to 65 mph.
July 2010HailWaldo-The hail was half inch to quarter size.
August 2009HailWaldo-Hail was mostly pea size, with a few to nickel size.
April 2005Tornado (F0)Waldo-Remained in the country.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWaldo-Numerous tree limbs were blown down.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Waldo-Brief touchdown.
May 2023HailWaldo-no account filed
July 2023HailWaldo-no account filed
July 2023HailWaldo-no account filed
June 2019HailWaldo-no account filed
May 2018HailWaldo-no account filed
May 2018HailWaldo-no account filed
September 2018HailWaldo-no account filed
May 2016HailWaldo-no account filed
April 2013HailWaldo-no account filed
April 2013HailWaldo-no account filed
April 2013HailWaldo-no account filed
June 2011HailWaldo-no account filed
June 2011HailWaldo-no account filed
July 2010HailWaldo-no account filed
June 2008HailWaldo-no account filed
June 2008HailWaldo-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindWaldo-no account filed
July 2004HailWaldo-no account filed
July 2004HailWaldo-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWaldo-no account filed
May 2003HailWaldo-no account filed
May 2002HailWaldo-no account filed
May 2002HailWaldo-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWaldo-no account filed
June 2001HailWaldo-no account filed
August 2001HailWaldo-no account filed
June 1998HailWaldo-no account filed
June 1998HailWaldo-no account filed
June 1998HailWaldo-no account filed
May 1995HailWaldo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Russell 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
Luray5.8 miles13
Paradise6.4 miles13
Fairport13.3 miles12
Lucas14.5 miles13
Russell15.7 miles13
Homer17.2 miles14
Balta17.3 miles13
Bunker Hill17.5 miles13

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 Q2117123The 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 472528. 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.

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.