Welcome to Waldo ...Waldo is located in Neshoba County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Waldo, you might consider that their post office opened in 1892. The origin (or the toponymy) of Waldo: Named after Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American essayist, lecturer, poet and leader of the mid-19th century Transcendentalist movement. Waldo is 490 feet [149 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Waldo lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Area Codes for Waldo: 601 & 769<3> Communities Also Named Waldo ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 20 communities that are also named Waldo - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri (2), New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Waldo. Communities near Waldo ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Waldo.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Waldo. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Waldo. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Waldo. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Waldo. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Waldo. See our Newspapers Page for Waldo. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Waldo ...Looking for more information about Waldo? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions. While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Waldo, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Waldo. Adding Waldo to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Waldo in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Waldo was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for Waldo. Footnotes ...
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