Waverly, Minnesota
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Waverly City. It lies in ZIP code area 55390. The Survey maps it on the Waverly quadrangle. 1,900 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.
On record in Waverly
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Marysville Swedesburg Lutheran Churchlisted 1979
Waverly Village Halllisted 2002
Population over time
2 figuresWaverly grew from 1,357 to 1,900 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 | 1,357 | |
| 2020 | 1,900 | +543 (+40%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 12 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.
- 1953 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Anoka quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
852 words on this townshipHistory of Wright County, Minnesota Volume II, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Waverly City covers the township.
Read the chapter on Waverly City - 852 words.
Fires near this place
1 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Waverly in 2001, burning about 64 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 November 2001 | Debris and open burning | 64 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Waverly: 1 past producer. None of them 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlson Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
19 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waverly in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 9 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 2023 | Hail | Waverly | - | Hail that fell was mostly dime to nickel size, but some of the hailstones were as large as quarters. Due to the increased hail/rain rate, small drifts of hail were also observed. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | - | Public works relayed a report of a tree down in Waverly. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | - | A few trees were blown down in Waverly. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Waverly | - | After moving in from Carver County, the tornado dissipated shortly after entering Wright County, but it still caused large limbs to be broken on about one dozen trees. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | - | Numerous large tree limbs were blown off near Waverly. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | - | Large tree limbs were blown down near Waverly, on County Road 8. |
| August 2011 | Heavy Rain | Waverly | - | A trained spotter measured 2.10 inches of rainfall in the past two hours. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | - | Barn roof collapsed. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | - | Branches were downed. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | - | Trees down. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Waverly | - | Damage path in the town of Waverly was 1 block wide by 7 blocks long. Garages and barns blown down. Roofs ripped off. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Waverly | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montrose | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Highland | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Howard Lake | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Oster | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Rassat | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| Smith Lake | 8.0 miles | 10 | |
| Buffalo | 8.7 miles | 12 | |
| Albright | 9.0 miles | 10 |
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 Waverly | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1926770 | 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 653859. 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.








