Waldo, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hazelwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65746. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield NW quadrangle.

Waldo within Webster County

On record in Waldo

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Col. Thomas C. Love Houselisted 1985 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1951 USGS Mansfield NW quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Mansfield NW quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mountain Grove quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Mansfield NW quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Waldo between 1999 and 2002, burning about 136 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	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
11 September 2000	Debris and open burning	22 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
24 February 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	90 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
24 February 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
2 November 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Waldo: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hazelwood Diggings	Lead	Past Producer
Unknown-Lead	Lead	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Webster 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mountain Dale	0.5 miles	14
Seymour	3.2 miles	14
Crabbs (historical)	4.3 miles	12
Diggins	5.9 miles	14
Finley Falls	6.1 miles	14
High Prairie	7.4 miles	13
Sarvis Point	7.7 miles	14
Hiatt (historical)	8.8 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741343. 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.