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Calloway Crossing, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Irvine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40336. It stands on White Oak Creek. The Survey maps it on the Panola quadrangle.

Calloway Crossing within Estill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

144 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Calloway Crossing between 1994 and 2016, burning about 2,264 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 25 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 burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Arson/incendiarism25
Recreation and ceremony24
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestCHESTNUT STAND
17 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 August 1999Natural70 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Estill County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Calloway Crossing: 2 prospects. 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
Highway 851 Shalw ExposureClayProspect
Possum Run Clay BedClayProspect

Every working recorded in Estill County

Storms near this place

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calloway Crossing in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 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
May 2010Flash FloodCalloway Crossing$5,000Water was flowing into the Estill County library.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindCalloway Crossing-Trees were reported down along Sandhill Road near Irvine.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCalloway Crossing-A tree was reportedly blown down in the backyard or a residence near West Irvine.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCalloway Crossing-Local Emergency Management officials reported multiple trees down, stretching from west of Irvine to near Pitts.
May 2010FloodCalloway Crossing-Quail Run Road and Walling Road were impassable and closed due to flooding.
May 2010Flash FloodCalloway Crossing-Several roads across the county were closed due to flooding. The list included Eades Drive, Walton Road, Sub Station Road, Dry Branch Road, and Blackburn Road.
June 2009HailCalloway Crossing-One inch hail fell in Sandhill.

Every storm recorded in Estill 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
Stump (historical)0.5 miles12
Cedar Grove (historical)1.0 miles15
Sand Hill (historical)1.2 miles15
Old Witt School Neighborhood (historical)1.2 miles12
Witt Springs1.3 miles15
North Irvine1.5 miles12
West Irvine1.8 miles12
Sweet Lick (historical)2.1 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122595969The 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 507639. 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.