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Callao, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Callao Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63534. It stands on Sweezer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bevier North quadrangle. 251 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Callao within Macon County

On record in Callao

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Callao fell from 292 to 251 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
2010292
2020251-41 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Callao between 1999 and 2002, burning about 272 acres 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3

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
6 April 2002Debris and open burning240 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 February 2002Debris and open burning13 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 February 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 February 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 October 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macon 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 Callao: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unknown - Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Macon County

Storms near this place

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Callao in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2019: 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 3 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
March 2006Thunderstorm WindCallao$1,000Shed and grain bin damaged.
May 2019Flash FloodCallao-HWY 36 was closed between Callao and Bevier due to flooding.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindCallao-A delayed report from Kirksville TV media indicated that some damage occurred to a farmstead just south of Callao. No other severe weather, aside from flooding, was reported from this storm.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindCallao-The emergency manager measured a 60 mph wind gust near Callao.
June 2008Flash FloodCallao-Highway 3 to the north of Callao was flooded.
June 2005Flash FloodCallao-High water on Highway 36.
April 2019HailCallao-no account filed
June 2011HailCallao-no account filed
May 2003HailCallao-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Macon 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
Bevier3.3 miles9
Number Eight3.9 miles9
Bloomington4.2 miles12
Kern4.2 miles12
Keota4.4 miles9
Hammack6.2 miles9
Cash6.2 miles12
Seney6.4 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.

Wikipedia article on CallaoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q964639The 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 715203. 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.