Callaghan, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Laredo North-Webb census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78045. The Survey maps it on the Callaghan Ranch North quadrangle.

Callaghan within Webb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Webb quadrangle1:62500
1980 USGS Callaghan Ranch North quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Callaghan in 2017, burning under an acre 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
Equipment and vehicle use	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
16 January 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	IH 35 30MM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webb County

Storms near this place

33 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Callaghan in 33 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 20 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 2012	Hail	Callaghan	$250,000	Large hail up to the size of softballs occurred for 20 minutes near Callaghan Ranch at mile marker 28 on Interstate 35. Several car windows were broken out.
October 2013	Flash Flood	Callaghan	$100,000	Interstate 35 near mile marker 37 was closed due to flooding and multiple car accidents.
October 2013	Flash Flood	Callaghan	$20,000	A stranded motorist was rescued at mile marker 37 on Interstate 35 south of Encinal.
February 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Callaghan	$15,000	CoCoRaHS observer reported severe roof damage to a 5000 square foot warehouse\|on Callaghan Ranch. Deer blinds were blown over and shingles were blown off of a home also.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Callaghan	$10,000	Observer sent pictures of a power pole and large tree blown down.
April 2020	Hail	Callaghan	$10,000	Public estimated hail slightly larger than quarter size. Hail dented a car and broke out the side window.
February 2013	Hail	Callaghan	$10,000	CoCoRaHS observer reported golf ball sized hail at Callaghan Ranch which lasted around 10 minutes.
May 2012	Hail	Callaghan	$10,000	Hail initially started as penny sized and grew to golf ball size.
February 2013	Hail	Callaghan	$5,000	CoCoRaHS observer reported golf ball sized hail on Callaghan Ranch.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Callaghan	$5,000	Several hay rings weighing around 80 pounds were moved by winds on Callaghan Ranch.
April 2024	Hail	Callaghan	$3,000	Golf ball sized hail reported by Cactus Jack Ranch resident, damage reported to vehicles and roofs.
February 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Callaghan	$2,000	CoCoRaHS observer reported branches were blown off trees at Callaghan Ranch. The diameter of the tree branches was around 8 inches.
May 2022	Hail	Callaghan	-	Quarter sized hail occurred along Interstate 35 at mile marker 26 near Callaghan.
May 2022	Hail	Callaghan	-	Coop observer reported golf ball sized hail south of Encinal.
May 2022	Hail	Callaghan	-	Golf ball sized hail occurred along Interstate 35 south of Encinal.
May 2022	Hail	Callaghan	-	Ping pong ball sized hail occurred southeast of Encinal.
August 2022	Flood	Callaghan	-	San Casamiro Creek flood waters covered Highway 44. TXDOT closed the highway between Freer and Encinal.
August 2022	Flash Flood	Callaghan	-	Report received through social media of Interstate 35 flooded south of Encinal.
April 2020	Hail	Callaghan	-	Social media post showed hail at least golf ball size on Highway 44.
June 2019	Hail	Callaghan	-	Observer reported baseball sized hail on Interstate 35 between mile markers 22 and 27 north of the community of Webb.
May 2017	Hail	Callaghan	-	Picture of golf ball sized hail received through social media.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Callaghan	-	Highway 83 was closed just north of the Border Patrol Checkpoint near the Highway 44 interchange due to several feet of water over the roadway. Local creeks were flooded.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Callaghan	-	Texas Department of Public Safety reported flooding of Highway 83 in the vicinity of Tejones Creek, around 6 miles to the north of Toll Road 255..
February 2013	Hail	Callaghan	-	U.S. Border Patrol at U. S. Highway 83 checkpoint north of Laredo reported quarter sized hail.
March 2012	Hail	Callaghan	-	Sheriff Deputy reported quarter sized hail at mile marker 26 on Interstate 35 north of Laredo.
May 2012	Hail	Callaghan	-	Penny sized hail fell for 10 minutes at Callaghan Ranch.
April 2009	Hail	Callaghan	-	Quarter to golfball sized hail measured at CoCoRaHS observer TX-WB-5 site. Ranch owner estimated hail could have been larger just east and north of the site, based on stripped leaves and small mesquite branches broken, as well as holes punched through cactus.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Callaghan	-	Estimated by CoCoRaHS observer.
April 2004	Tornado (F0)	Callaghan	-	Public reported a brief touchdown just off of Highway 44, 5 miles west of Interstate 35. The tornado remained over open country.
April 2004	Hail	Callaghan	-	Golf ball-size was reported in northern Webb county, 5 miles east-southeast of Encinal on Highway 44.
May 2009	Hail	Callaghan	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Callaghan	-	no account filed
April 2004	Funnel Cloud	Callaghan	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Webb 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cactus	2.1 miles	8
San Ramon	4.0 miles	8
Los Huisaches Number 2 Colonia	4.4 miles	8
Los Huisaches Colonia	4.7 miles	8
Webb	5.9 miles	8
La Moca Ranch Colonia	6.0 miles	8
Four Points Colonia	6.3 miles	8
Sunset Acres Colonia	6.4 miles	8

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 Callaghan	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5021707	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 1378085. 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.

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.