About Wahoo, Nebraska

Wahoo is a city of 4,818 people and the county seat of Saunders County. It was founded in 1870 by settlers who were mostly Czech, German and Scandinavian. The town took its name from the eastern wahoo, a shrub that grew along the banks of Wahoo Creek. The word comes from the Dakota wΗ§hu, which means arrow wood.

“In 1963, Howard Hanson heard of the town's interest in his home and especially of the Wahoo Women's Club's interest in restoring the home and donated the funds to purchase his birthplace for the City of Wahoo.”
National Register nomination, 1982
  • Letterman's home office, 1996In February 1996, David Letterman's Late Show moved the "home office" that produced its Top Ten List from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Wahoo. The town had campaigned for months. It had the Nebraska legislature name Letterman an admiral of the state's Great Navy, and residents flooded him with letters, postcards and gifts, from flowers and animals to shredded money. The CBS website called its nightly recap of the list The Wahoo Gazette.
  • A Pinto with a sofaDuring Wahoo's campaign for the Late Show's home office, Letterman joked that he wanted more. The town answered by sending him a Ford Pinto with a sofa on its hood, a clock made of cow droppings and two local teenage brothers, Jeff and Josh Price.
  • Softball champions from 1969John F. Kennedy College operated in Wahoo from 1965 to 1975. Its softball team won the very first tournament of what later became the Women's College World Series, starting in 1969, and then took the next two national titles as well, which made the small college known across the country.
  • Composer Howard HansonHoward Hanson was born in Wahoo on October 28, 1896. As a boy he studied piano and cello, and he was writing his own piano pieces by age seven. He went on to win a Pulitzer Prize as a composer and also worked as a conductor, author and educator. The house where he was born became city property and joined the National Register in 1983.

Find your street

Names on the Wahoo map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Streets and roads95

  • North Chestnut Street
  • East Twelfth Street
  • South Chestnut Street
  • Old US Highway 77
  • West First Street
  • North Broadway Street
  • North Laurel Street
  • West Eighth Street
  • East First Street
  • West 15th Street
  • North Sycamore Street
  • North Walnut Street
  • West Third Street
  • West 23rd Street
  • West Sixth Street
  • North Elm Street
  • East Eleventh Street
  • Hruby Lane
  • Sloup Drive
  • North Birch Street
  • East Fourth Street
  • North Linden Street
  • North Locust Street
  • North Hackberry Street
  • North Beech Street
  • North Orange Street
  • Commercial Park Road
  • West Tenth Street
  • North Maple Street
  • North Pine Street
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  • West Ninth Street
  • North Spruce Street
  • Locust Street
  • North Oak Street
  • North Hickory Street
  • East 15th Street
  • Fairway Drive
  • East 14th Street
  • East 13th Street
  • East Fifth Street
  • East Tenth Street
  • East Sixth Street
  • South Pine Street
  • Simodynes Drive
  • Continental Estates Road
  • County Road North
  • Maly Boulevard
  • East Third Street
  • East Second Street
  • City View Drive
  • 31st Street
  • Ponderosa Street
  • Garrett Avenue
  • Curtis Street
  • Mark Drive
  • Aspen Street
  • West Second Street
  • West Seventh Street
  • West Fifth Street
  • Sourh Elm Street
  • West 16th Street
  • Ash Street
  • South Linden Street
  • South Elm Street
  • East Seventh Street
  • East Ninth Street
  • Shalene Circle
  • West Fourth Street
  • West 14th Street
  • West 13th Street
  • Westdale Lane
  • Pine Log Road
  • 34th Street
  • West 25th Street
  • West 18th Street
  • Janecek Drive
  • East 23rd Street
  • Dry Run Drive
  • 16th Street
  • West Twelfth Street
  • Spruce Street
  • West 24th Circle
  • Arbor Lane
  • East 24th Street
  • Ninth Street
  • East 19th Street
  • West Eleventh Street
  • South Sycamore Street
  • South Broadway Street
  • West 25th Circle
  • North Laurel Avenue
  • North Willow Street
  • East 16th Street
  • West 27th Street
  • East 18th Street

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The art of mapping a place

How This Map Was Made

Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.

  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

    Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.

  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

    Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.

  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

    Geography becomes art

    Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.

Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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