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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.

Waverly within Wright County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Waverly 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,357
20201,900+543 (+40%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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.

In the county-history sources

852 words on this township

History 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 2001

Regional 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 burning1

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 November 2001Debris and open burning64 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wright County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carlson Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wright County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023HailWaverly-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 2023Thunderstorm WindWaverly-Public works relayed a report of a tree down in Waverly.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindWaverly-A few trees were blown down in Waverly.
May 2022Tornado (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 2014Thunderstorm WindWaverly-Numerous large tree limbs were blown off near Waverly.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindWaverly-Large tree limbs were blown down near Waverly, on County Road 8.
August 2011Heavy RainWaverly-A trained spotter measured 2.10 inches of rainfall in the past two hours.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWaverly-Barn roof collapsed.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindWaverly-Branches were downed.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindWaverly-Trees down. Estimated windspeed.
July 1997Tornado (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 2023HailWaverly-no account filed
August 2013HailWaverly-no account filed
September 2007HailWaverly-no account filed
June 2007HailWaverly-no account filed
August 2004HailWaverly-no account filed
June 2002HailWaverly-no account filed
June 1998HailWaverly-no account filed
June 1994HailWaverly-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wright 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
Montrose2.9 miles12
Highland5.2 miles10
Howard Lake5.7 miles10
Oster6.0 miles11
Rassat6.1 miles12
Smith Lake8.0 miles10
Buffalo8.7 miles12
Albright9.0 miles10

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 WaverlyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1926770The 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.