Waterloo, Oregon
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lebanon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97355. It stands on Noble Creek. The Survey maps it on the Waterloo quadrangle. 222 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 402 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWaterloo fell from 229 to 222 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 | 229 | |
| 2020 | 222 | -7 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 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.
- 1921 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1952 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Mc Kenzie River quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
101 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Waterloo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Other causes | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | OLD MILL |
| 6 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | SANTIAM TERRACE/HWY 20 |
| 5 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | BELLINGER ROAD |
| 4 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest Oregon District | 7TH STREET WATERLOO |
| 4 September 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | OLD SANTIAM |
| 3 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | SODAVILLE |
| 28 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | BELLINGER ROAD |
| 26 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.2 acres | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | CASCADE DRIVE # 3 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 33 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Waterloo: 17 producers, 16 past producers. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C & S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| C & S Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lebanon Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lebanon Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Basalt Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Basalt Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Basalt Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Basalt Quarry | Stone | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairview | 1.3 miles | 16 | |
| Sodaville | 2.5 miles | 16 | |
| Crowfoot | 3.6 miles | 23 | |
| Santiam Terrace | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| Berlin | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| South Lebanon | 4.2 miles | 23 | |
| Evansville (historical) | 4.5 miles | 23 | |
| Liberty | 4.6 miles | 16 |
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 Waterloo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q385561 | 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 1136880. 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.









