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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.

Waco within Jasper County

Population over time

2 figures

Waco 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.

YearPeople Change
201087
202072-15 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

10 since 2002

Regional 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177915-04902-07072018-2120
8 June 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177914-04902-06082018-2240
14 June 2020Debris and open burning35 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230720-04902-06142020-1910
5 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230719-04902-05052020-1800
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177912-04902-04282018-1434
23 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCherokee County92
21 March 2017Arson/incendiarism27 acresCherokee County90
18 February 2002Debris and open burning80 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 51 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Weaver LeaseZincPast Producer1913
Black Cat Mine North ShaftLead, ZincPast Producer
Freehold #4 MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Gascho MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Goodyear MineLead, ZincPast Producer
High Five Mine North ShaftLead, ZincPast Producer
High Five Mine South ShaftsLead, ZincPast Producer
Indiana MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Knell - Putnam MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Lucky Shot MineLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2015FloodWaco1 killedA 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 2020HailWaco$2,000,000Severe 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 2009Thunderstorm WindWaco$100,000Thunderstorm wind gusts damaged shingles, windows, and trees in the Carl Junction area.
April 2006Tornado (F1)Waco$100,000This tornado is a continuation of the Cherokee County Kansas tornado. This tornado destroyed a few outbuildings across rural west central Jasper County.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindWaco$5,000The 911 center reported power lines and poles down in Waco at the intersection of Collins and Depot Street.
April 2026Flash FloodWaco-Water was reported over the road impacting traffic.
August 2017Flash FloodWaco-Maple Road near State Highway 171 was washed out.
August 2009Heavy RainWaco-A cooperative observer measured 4.55 inches of rain.
July 2007HailWaco-no account filed
March 2006HailWaco-no account filed
May 2003HailWaco-no account filed
July 2003HailWaco-no account filed
December 2002HailWaco-no account filed
May 1997Flash FloodWaco-no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindWaco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Asbury1.9 miles22
Galesburg4.7 miles22
Carl Junction5.2 miles18
Gulfton5.2 miles18
Smithfield5.4 miles18
Stringtown5.4 miles18
Medoc5.7 miles22
Klondike7.0 miles18

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 WacoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q958754The 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.