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Waldron, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Township 2. It lies in ZIP code area 67150. It stands on Middle Branch Bluff Creek. The Survey maps it on the Waldron quadrangle. 9 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Waldron within Harper County

Population over time

2 figures

Waldron fell from 11 to 9 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
201011
20209-2 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Waldron between 2015 and 2020, burning about 3,410 acres in total. None 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 use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
17 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use410 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
13 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,000 acresHarper CountyWALDRON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harper County

Storms near this place

27 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waldron in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 17 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. 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
April 1999Thunderstorm WindWaldron$50,000At one farmstead, a roundtop was blown off it's foundation and demolished. Part of the roundtop stuck into a silo located immediately north of where roundtop had been positioned.
May 1998Tornado (F0)Waldron$25,000Power poles damaged 4 miles east of Waldron.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindWaldron$5,000One utility pole was downed, along with sporadic tree damage.
May 2024Tornado (EF2)Waldron-The tornado tracked northwest and damaged a farmstead west of Anthony. What made this tornado unique was that it did not form from the main mesocyclone associated with the supercell, but rather from the supercell's interaction with one of the storms lifting due north out of Oklahoma. EF-2 damage was found at a farm about 8 miles west of Anthony where large sections of a roof structure were removed. A couple tree trunks were snapped with another one uprooted. One outbuilding was totally destroyed.
April 2012Tornado (EF1)Waldron-One small semi thrown approximately 140 feet over a fence and the cab was slightly flattened on the top. Minimal damage to the one story house with basement besides a carport torn off, windows blown out, and only tar paper left on roof. Ford F-150 thrown and displaced to the southeast into a tractor approximately 30 feet away with wheel of tractor intruding the driver side of the truck.||A farmstead with two homes on it and an airport hangar. The airport hangar and other metal sheds were broken apart. Wooden barn with concrete stalls had collapsed onto the stalls. One older home that was vacant and had just had the roof replaced last summer; however, roof was torn apart and removed on the north side. Second home had damage to the garage with one side being blown out. Large tree fell onto house and busted windows. Debris scattered in the field surrounding farm.||Abandoned farmstead had house torn apart with no roof and exposed walls but hard to tell. Trees in area uprooted with mainly the major branches remaining in some cases.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindWaldron-AGTAP HP305.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindWaldron-Numerous tree limbs blown down.
May 1998HailWaldron-Hail ranged from 1.75-2.00 inches.
March 2017HailWaldron-no account filed
May 2002HailWaldron-no account filed
May 2002HailWaldron-no account filed
May 2002HailWaldron-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWaldron-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindWaldron-no account filed
July 2000HailWaldron-no account filed
September 1999HailWaldron-no account filed
May 1999HailWaldron-no account filed
May 1999HailWaldron-no account filed
April 1999HailWaldron-no account filed
May 1997HailWaldron-no account filed
May 1997HailWaldron-no account filed
June 1997HailWaldron-no account filed
May 1997HailWaldron-no account filed
May 1997HailWaldron-no account filed
June 1996HailWaldron-no account filed
June 1996HailWaldron-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindWaldron-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harper 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
Ruella5.4 miles15
Corwin8.6 miles15
Midway10.9 miles15
Anthony13.2 miles16
Hawk13.4 miles19
Crisfield13.6 miles15
Attica16.7 miles15
Bluff City17.1 miles19

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 WaldronAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2156984The 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 470556. 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.