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.
Population over time
2 figuresWaldron 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 11 | |
| 2020 | 9 | -2 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1889 USGS Anthony quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Anthony quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Medicine Lodge quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2015Regional 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 use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 410 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 13 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,000 acres | Harper County | WALDRON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldron | $50,000 | At 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 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Waldron | $25,000 | Power poles damaged 4 miles east of Waldron. |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldron | $5,000 | One utility pole was downed, along with sporadic tree damage. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (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 2012 | Tornado (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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldron | - | AGTAP HP305. |
| September 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldron | - | Numerous tree limbs blown down. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Waldron | - | Hail ranged from 1.75-2.00 inches. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Waldron | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Waldron | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Waldron | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Waldron | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldron | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldron | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Waldron | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Waldron | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Waldron | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Waldron | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Waldron | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Waldron | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Waldron | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Waldron | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Waldron | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Waldron | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Waldron | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Waldron | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldron | - | 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 Waldron | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2156984 | 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 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.





