BlockWaltham, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Waltham Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55982. The Survey maps it on the Waltham quadrangle. 164 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,322 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWaltham grew from 151 to 164 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 | 151 | |
| 2020 | 164 | +13 (+9%) |
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
- 1966 USGS Waltham quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Waltham: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spooner Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Wachlin Plit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waltham in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 1998 | Hail | Waltham | $35,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Waltham | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Waltham | $3,000 | Radar estimates indicated 2 to 3 inches of rain fell across the eastern sections of Mower County. This resulted in some flash flooding that sent water over a road east of Grand Meadow. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waltham | $2,000 | Trees were blown down in Waltham. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Waltham | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waltham | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Waltham | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waltham | $650 | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waltham | $500 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waltham | - | Some corn was flattened by the high winds near Waltham. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Waltham | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Waltham | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Waltham | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Waltham | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Waltham | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sargeant | 4.1 miles | 7 | |
| Mayville | 4.3 miles | 7 | |
| Brownsdale | 5.6 miles | 9 | |
| Lansing | 7.2 miles | 9 | |
| Renova | 8.2 miles | 9 | |
| Andyville | 9.0 miles | 9 | |
| Ramsey | 9.1 miles | 9 | |
| Nicolville | 10.1 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 Waltham | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2040760 | 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 653751. 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.
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.