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Callaway, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Tejay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40977. It stands on Dry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Balkan quadrangle.

Callaway within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

334 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 334 fires within 5 miles of Callaway between 1997 and 2020, burning about 13,948 acres in total. None started naturally. 80 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
Debris and open burning144
Missing data/not specified/undetermined96
Arson/incendiarism80
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTANYARD HILL
30 September 2007Recreation and ceremony15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Callaway: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Hamptonridge Shale Excavation SiteClayProspect

Every working recorded in Bell County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Callaway in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
February 2012Thunderstorm WindCallaway$5,000Trees were blown down along US Hwy 119 in Callaway.
July 2022Flash FloodCallaway-Bell County dispatch reported that Balkan Road off of US-119 was closed due to high water in the community of Callaway.

Every storm recorded in Bell 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
Tejay1.4 miles18
Miracle1.9 miles18
Balkan1.9 miles18
Blackmont2.1 miles18
Laurel Ford2.2 miles18
Kettle Island2.3 miles18
Kettle Island Coal Camp (historical)2.5 miles18
Cardinal3.0 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 488619. 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.