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Callaway, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Panama City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32404. It stands on Callaway Creek. The Survey maps it on the Springfield quadrangle. 13,045 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 33 feet above sea level.

Callaway within Bay County

Then and now

1945 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Callaway, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Callaway, surveyed 1945

Population over time

2 figures

Callaway fell from 14,405 to 13,045 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
201014,405
202013,045-1,360 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

191 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Callaway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,409 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 26 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
Misuse of fire by a minor47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Arson/incendiarism26
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural15
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Debris and open burning13
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service03 / HUNTING LEASE
8 September 2005Fireworks30 acresFlorida Forest Service03 / LOST FIRE
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceREDFISH POINT (03)
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use60 acresFlorida Forest Service03 / CROSSROADS FIRE
23 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service03-STAR & TRAM RD 2005-02-0572
2 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Callaway: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand. 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
Fla. Asphalt & PavingSandProducer
Sikes Concrete Co./Oliver Creek MineSandProducer
Bay Co. PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Calloway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gulf Asphalt Corp.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bay County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Callaway in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2021Flash FloodCallaway-Business 98 between Cherry Street and Parker was closed due to flooding.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCallaway-Trees were blown down in Callaway.
July 2013Flash FloodCallaway-The public reported via social media that Wabash Ave in Springfield was flooded.

Every storm recorded in Bay 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
Old Callaway0.7 miles15
Springfield2.2 miles15
Parker2.3 miles15
Bay Harbor2.4 miles15
Cedar Grove3.2 miles17
Millville3.2 miles17
Long Point3.3 miles16
Cook3.4 miles16

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 CallawayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q994981The 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 295171. 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.