Waco, Missouri
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Twin Groves Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64832. The Survey maps it on the Carl Junction quadrangle. 72 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 902 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWaco fell from 87 to 72 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 | 87 | |
| 2020 | 72 | -15 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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.
- 1886 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Carl Junction quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Waco between 2002 and 2020, burning about 152 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.3 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177915-04902-07072018-2120 |
| 8 June 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177914-04902-06082018-2240 |
| 14 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230720-04902-06142020-1910 |
| 5 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230719-04902-05052020-1800 |
| 28 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177912-04902-04282018-1434 |
| 23 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Cherokee County | 92 |
| 21 March 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 27 acres | Cherokee County | 90 |
| 18 February 2002 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 51 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 51 workings within 5 miles of Waco: 51 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weaver Lease | Zinc | Past Producer | 1913 | |
| Black Cat Mine North Shaft | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Freehold #4 Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Gascho Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Goodyear Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| High Five Mine North Shaft | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| High Five Mine South Shafts | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Indiana Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Knell - Putnam Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Lucky Shot Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waco in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2015 | Flood | Waco | 1 killed | A 30 year old man was swept off of Maple Road due to flooding. This incident occurred along the Spring River approximately 2 miles east of Waco. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Waco | $2,000,000 | Severe thunderstorms moved out of southeastern Kansas and produced a swath of hail across Jasper County from Waco to Avilla. Hail from quarter to baseball in size were reported along the path of the storms. In Waco, as the storm entered Missouri, half dollar hail was reported. In Purcell, golf ball to tennis ball hail lasted for nearly 30 minutes causing damage to vehicles and homes. The hail continued across the county impacting Oronogo, where golf ball sized hail occurred, to the eastern edge of the county where ping pong to baseball sized hail fell in Avilla damaging homes and breaking windows out of vehicles.||Damage estimates ranged considerably, partially due to the widespread nature of the hail as well as multiple events over successive days. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | $100,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts damaged shingles, windows, and trees in the Carl Junction area. |
| April 2006 | Tornado (F1) | Waco | $100,000 | This tornado is a continuation of the Cherokee County Kansas tornado. This tornado destroyed a few outbuildings across rural west central Jasper County. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | $5,000 | The 911 center reported power lines and poles down in Waco at the intersection of Collins and Depot Street. |
| April 2026 | Flash Flood | Waco | - | Water was reported over the road impacting traffic. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Waco | - | Maple Road near State Highway 171 was washed out. |
| August 2009 | Heavy Rain | Waco | - | A cooperative observer measured 4.55 inches of rain. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| December 2002 | Hail | Waco | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Flash Flood | Waco | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waco | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asbury | 1.9 miles | 22 | |
| Galesburg | 4.7 miles | 22 | |
| Carl Junction | 5.2 miles | 18 | |
| Gulfton | 5.2 miles | 18 | |
| Smithfield | 5.4 miles | 18 | |
| Stringtown | 5.4 miles | 18 | |
| Medoc | 5.7 miles | 22 | |
| Klondike | 7.0 miles | 18 |
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 Waco | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q958754 | 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 728227. 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.









