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Waldo, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Waldo Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53093. The Survey maps it on the Plymouth South quadrangle. 467 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Waldo within Sheboygan 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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Waldo fell from 503 to 467 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
2010503
2020467-36 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Waldo between 2018 and 2020, burning about 14 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
15 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources352
29 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources240
23 June 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources189
7 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources127
17 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1511
16 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1506
12 May 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources23
7 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources94

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheboygan County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Waldo: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Bucholz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cascade PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Skelton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sheboygan County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waldo in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2008Flash FloodWaldo$402,300Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding across parts of eastern Sheboygan County. Water depths on road surfaces reached 3 feet or more and there were gravel washouts. Erosion damage was noted at Kohler Andrae State Park. Some farm fields remained flooded into early July. The breakdown for residential home losses were: 30 minimally affected, and 30 with minor damage (total of $148.5 thousand for home losses). There were no business losses. Crop losses were estimated at $300 thousand. Public sector damage was about $253.9 thousand. A couple roads and bridges sustained minor damage.
August 1996LightningWaldo$130,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWaldo$60,000A swath of structural damage to barns and outbuildings in the Lima area.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindWaldo$30,000A barn blown down and two 2X4s blown into a nearby house.
April 2008Flash FloodWaldo$10,000Heavy rains due to training thunderstorms resulted in brief flash flooding in on the northwest side of Waldo. There were gravel shoulder washouts and mud deposits on roads near a creek that feeds into Waldo Mill Pond. Water depths on roads were at least 6 inches.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWaldo$1,000A large tree down.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWaldo-Fire officials reported tree damage by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 56 knots (65 mph).
May 2006HailWaldo-no account filed
May 2001HailWaldo-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindWaldo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheboygan 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
Hingham3.1 miles9
Cascade3.3 miles12
Adell3.8 miles8
Kennedys Corners (historical)4.2 miles10
New Paris4.2 miles9
Plymouth Country View Estates4.4 miles9
Plymouth5.3 miles9
Gibbsville6.6 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 WaldoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3301015The 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 1576152. 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.