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.
Population over time
2 figuresWaldo 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 30 | |
| 2020 | 30 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1896 USGS Osborne quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Waldo quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2015Regional 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 use | 3 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 150022 |
| 24 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 150020 |
| 4 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 180014 |
| 28 April 2020 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
57 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | $144,000 | Twenty five to thirty power poles were knocked from the high winds. The poles were located along Highway 281. |
| August 1997 | Hail | Waldo | $50,000 | THOUGH 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 2008 | Flash Flood | Waldo | $10,000 | A 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | $10,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds ripped an 8 foot by 37 foot section of roofing off a senior center. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | $3,000 | A sixty foot high tree was blown down. The tree was about two and half feet in diameter at its base. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | $1,000 | A tree was knocked down by estimated 60 mph winds. Pea size hail was also reported. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Waldo | $1,000 | Two cars side-swiped on Highway 18. One patrol car sustained broken windshield. Part of the wheat crop also sustained damage. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | $500 | A trained spotter reported wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph with some broken tree limbs. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Waldo | - | Reported relayed via Mping. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | A trained spotter measured a 58 mph wind gust. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Waldo | - | A spotter reported penny to quarter-sized hail covering the ground. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | No damage was reported. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | A large tree limb was also reported down. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | Winds estimated around 60 mph downed some tree limbs. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | Multiple cedar trees were reported to be blown down. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Waldo | - | The hail was mostly nickel-sized. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Waldo | - | No damage was reported. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | Winds were estimated around 60 mph. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | Winds were estimated around 60 mph. |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Waldo | - | 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | County officials estimated winds of 60 to 65 mph. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Waldo | - | The hail was half inch to quarter size. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Waldo | - | Hail was mostly pea size, with a few to nickel size. |
| April 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Waldo | - | Remained in the country. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | Numerous tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Waldo | - | Brief touchdown. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Waldo | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | 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.
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 Q2117123 | 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 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.




