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Waldo, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Lake No. 2 unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 55616. The Survey maps it on the Two Harbors quadrangle.

Waldo within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

164 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Waldo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 116 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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.

Reported cause Fires
Railroad operations and maintenance65
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2

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
4 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2011Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Waldo: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Big Noise Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Drummond PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waldo in 5 storm reports between 2018 and 2026: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2018Thunderstorm WindWaldo-Multiple trees were knocked down onto power lines along U.S. Highway 2.
August 2018HailWaldo-The hail damaged some vehicles.
April 2026HailWaldo-no account filed
May 2022HailWaldo-no account filed
July 2019HailWaldo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Stewart2.6 miles11
Two Harbors3.3 miles11
York4.2 miles9
Alger5.6 miles9
Silver Creek6.1 miles11
Larsmont6.5 miles5
Lauren8.2 miles9
Knife River9.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 658880. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.