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Callaway, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Callaway City. It lies in ZIP code area 56521. The Survey maps it on the Callaway quadrangle. 178 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,385 feet above sea level.

Callaway within Becker County

Population over time

2 figures

Callaway fell from 234 to 178 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
2010234
2020178-56 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Callaway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,037 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 34 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
Arson/incendiarism34
Debris and open burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Natural1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresHamden Slough National Wildlife RefugeSE BISSON
13 June 2000Naturalunder an acreBig Stone National Wildlife RefugeBUFFALO
1 June 1997Arson/incendiarism180 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1994Debris and open burning6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDetroit Lakes Wetland Management District26&132

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Becker 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 Callaway: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Becker County Marl Beds No 1Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Becker County Marl Beds No 2Limestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Becker County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Callaway in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 9 hail, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain, 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCallaway$450,000Large trees and power lines were blown down. Wind driven hail damaged fields and buildings.
June 2023Tornado (EFU)Callaway-Someone on twitter sent us a video of a tornado on the ground 6W of Callaway. The tornado occurred in an open field, which mitigated any damage it would have caused. Therefore, EF-U rating assigned with an estimated path length and width.
September 2014HailCallaway-Dime to quarter sized hail covered the ground.
August 2013HailCallaway-Several large branches were also blown down.
August 2011Heavy RainCallaway-The observer measured 3.00 inches of rain over a two hour period.
May 2010HailCallaway-Some tennis ball sized hail fell, but it was mostly quarter sized.
June 1994Tornado (F0)Callaway-A tornado touched down briefly but did no damage.
July 2017HailCallaway-no account filed
August 2015HailCallaway-no account filed
August 2011HailCallaway-no account filed
July 2006HailCallaway-no account filed
August 2000HailCallaway-no account filed
August 1998HailCallaway-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Becker 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
Westbury4.5 miles9
Richwood4.6 miles10
Ogema8.3 miles9
White Earth8.6 miles9
Audubon9.1 miles11
Richards10.1 miles11
LaBelle10.6 miles7
Lake Park11.8 miles7

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 Q2334485The 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 660007. 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.