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Callender, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Roland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50523. The Survey maps it on the Gowrie quadrangle. 368 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,152 feet above sea level.

Callender within Webster County

Population over time

2 figures

Callender fell from 376 to 368 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
2010376
2020368-8 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Callender between 2010 and 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined2

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
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Wetland Management DistrictBLAZING STAR WF
9 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1496 280TH ST., 1 MI N OR CALLENDER, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Storms near this place

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Callender in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCallender$250,000Extensive tree, window, roof, and crop damage from high winds and inch diameter. Large hail remained on the ground in the Callender area for a few hours.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCallender$100,000no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindCallender$70,000Public reported a modern farm building destroyed with walls and roof collapsed. Time was estimated from radar.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCallender$25,000Trees were downed on a roof. Damage caused by combination of silver dollar size hail and high winds.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindCallender$20,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCallender$10,000no account filed
August 2013Thunderstorm WindCallender$5,000Multiple 3-4 inches diameter limbs down in the yard. Pea size hail as well.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindCallender$5,000no account filed
May 2006HailCallender$5,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCallender$3,000Several five inch diameter tree limbs down throughout Callendar.
August 2023Funnel CloudCallender-Funnel cloud reported on by trained spotter east of Rockwell City.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindCallender-Public report of a large Morton building damaged due to wind in Callender via broadcast media.
May 2019HailCallender-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail. Time estimated from radar.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindCallender-Amateur radio operator reported wind gusts to 60 mph.
May 2015HailCallender-A trained spotter reported dime to penny size hail.
May 2015HailCallender-A trained spotter reported nickel to quarter size hail in the second round of hail. The hail was covering the ground.
August 2010Heavy RainCallender-Public reports of standing water 2 feet deep surrounding homes in Callender, with additional water flowing from fields and yards.
April 2004HailCallender-no account filed
September 2004HailCallender-no account filed
June 1998HailCallender-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Webster 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
Slifer4.6 miles8
Roelyn4.8 miles8
Moorland5.5 miles8
Gowrie5.6 miles8
Lundgren6.4 miles12
Palm Grove6.9 miles12
Roberts7.8 miles11
Otho8.8 miles11

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 CallenderAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1933717The 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 455056. 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.

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.