Waldorf, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Waldorf City. It lies in ZIP code area 56091. The Survey maps it on the Waldorf quadrangle. 201 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWaldorf fell from 229 to 201 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 | 229 | |
| 2020 | 201 | -28 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Waldorf quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Albert Lea quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Waldorf in 2011, burning about 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 October 2011 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | PEMBERTON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waldorf in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2010 | Flood | Waldorf | $1,000,000 | Numerous roads were closed due to excessive rainfall that fell on September 22nd and 23th. The major areal flooding didn't recede until late Saturday when most of the small streams and creeks had crested and only mainstem rivers remained flooded. In New Richland, Minnesota, Highway 30 and Highway 13 were closed, making it impossible for the roughly 1,000 residents to get out of town. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldorf | $250,000 | Two large hog barns were blown down northeast of Waldorf, Minnesota. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldorf | $50,000 | Reports of sporadic wind damage occurred from near the Waldorf area, northeast to rural areas of Janesville, hitting a few outbuildings. One broken power pole was reported north of Waseca. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldorf | $20,000 | A baseball field dugout was destroyed and a large tree was split. Large branches were also downed. Pictures were relayed via Slack. Time estimated by radar. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldorf | $5,000 | A large tree was uprooted in a front yard of a home in the city of Waldorf. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldorf | - | This was a measured wind gust from a storm chaser's wind sensor equipment. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldorf | - | Several large tree limbs were blown down around the city of Waldorf. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldorf | - | A NWS storm survey concluded that damaging straight-line winds caused a few large uprooted trees, and damage to an outbuilding, and silo, from approximately 2 miles north of Waldorf to 7 miles northeast of Waldorf. |
| March 2010 | Flood | Waldorf | - | Flood waters caused 240th Avenue, near Waldorf to close. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Waldorf | - | An observer measured 2.66 inches of rainfall in six hours. |
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Waldorf | - | Bands of thunderstorms began to develop across the county by the late evening, with several thunderstorms training over the same areas. By early morning, nearly five inches of rain fell across the southern part of the county. By morning, several roads were closed or covered with water. Highway 83 north of Waldorf was closed in both directions. Highway 13 south of Waseca had single lane traffic due to flooded roadways. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldorf | - | Trees down. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Waldorf | - | Penny sized hail fell near Waldorf and Alma City. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Waldorf | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Waldorf | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Waldorf | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Waldorf | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Waldorf | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Waldorf | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Waldorf | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Waldorf | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Waldorf | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldorf | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waldorf | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matawan | 6.2 miles | 7 | |
| Alma City | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| Saint Mary | 8.2 miles | 11 | |
| Wilton | 10.2 miles | 11 | |
| Otisco | 10.8 miles | 7 | |
| New Richland | 11.2 miles | 7 | |
| Vista | 12.3 miles | 7 | |
| Janesville | 12.5 miles | 9 |
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 Waldorf | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1924096 | 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 653730. 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.




