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Waldo is a small city in Waldo Township, Russell County, in north-central Kansas, about 16 miles north-northeast of Russell, the county seat.

The Union Town Company established Waldo on October 1, 1888, after acquiring 280 acres of land on a line of the Union Pacific Railroad, and the town incorporated as a city in May 1911.

Waldo grew into an agricultural shipping and receiving point with a bank, stores, and three grain elevators, reaching a population of approximately 300 by 1915 and a census peak of 279 in 1930.

Since the 1930s Waldo has gradually declined — Waldo High School closed in 1964, Waldo Grade School closed in 1979, and Union Pacific abandoned its rail line through town in 1993.

The 2020 census counted 30 people in Waldo, exactly the same total as in 2010, when the city had 15 households spread over its 0.36 square miles.

Waldo sits in the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains on the east bank of the West Fork of Wolf Creek, part of the Saline River watershed, where U.S. Route 281 and Kansas Highway 18 run together through town.

Waldo is served by the Natoma-Paradise-Waldo USD 399 school district based in Natoma; the old Waldo High School mascot was the Warriors before it consolidated with Paradise in 1964.