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.
Population over time
2 figuresCallender 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 376 | |
| 2020 | 368 | -8 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Gowrie quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2010Regional 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/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Wetland Management District | BLAZING STAR WF |
| 9 October 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 1496 280TH ST., 1 MI N OR CALLENDER, IOWA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callender | $250,000 | Extensive 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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callender | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callender | $70,000 | Public reported a modern farm building destroyed with walls and roof collapsed. Time was estimated from radar. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callender | $25,000 | Trees were downed on a roof. Damage caused by combination of silver dollar size hail and high winds. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callender | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callender | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callender | $5,000 | Multiple 3-4 inches diameter limbs down in the yard. Pea size hail as well. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callender | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Callender | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callender | $3,000 | Several five inch diameter tree limbs down throughout Callendar. |
| August 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Callender | - | Funnel cloud reported on by trained spotter east of Rockwell City. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callender | - | Public report of a large Morton building damaged due to wind in Callender via broadcast media. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Callender | - | Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail. Time estimated from radar. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callender | - | Amateur radio operator reported wind gusts to 60 mph. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Callender | - | A trained spotter reported dime to penny size hail. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Callender | - | A trained spotter reported nickel to quarter size hail in the second round of hail. The hail was covering the ground. |
| August 2010 | Heavy Rain | Callender | - | Public reports of standing water 2 feet deep surrounding homes in Callender, with additional water flowing from fields and yards. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Callender | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Callender | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Callender | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Callender | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1933717 | The 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.





