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.
Population over time
2 figuresCallaway 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 234 | |
| 2020 | 178 | -56 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Callaway quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Detroit Lakes quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
94 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 34 |
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Hamden Slough National Wildlife Refuge | SE BISSON |
| 13 June 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge | BUFFALO |
| 1 June 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 180 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 May 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 8.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 May 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 May 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District | 26&132 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Becker County Marl Beds No 1 | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Becker County Marl Beds No 2 | Limestone, General | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
13 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callaway | $450,000 | Large trees and power lines were blown down. Wind driven hail damaged fields and buildings. |
| June 2023 | Tornado (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 2014 | Hail | Callaway | - | Dime to quarter sized hail covered the ground. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Callaway | - | Several large branches were also blown down. |
| August 2011 | Heavy Rain | Callaway | - | The observer measured 3.00 inches of rain over a two hour period. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Callaway | - | Some tennis ball sized hail fell, but it was mostly quarter sized. |
| June 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Callaway | - | A tornado touched down briefly but did no damage. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Callaway | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Callaway | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Callaway | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Callaway | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Callaway | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Callaway | - | 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 Callaway | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2334485 | 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 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.





