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Calamine, Arkansas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Big Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72466. It stands on Bandy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Poughkeepsie quadrangle. It stands 318 feet above sea level.

Calamine within Sharp County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

84 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Calamine between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,108 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 35 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/incendiarism35
Debris and open burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Smoking1

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
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2001Smoking3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2014Arson/incendiarism14 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionSHA27996771
25 August 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2012Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sharp County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Calamine: 11 unknowns, 11 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zinc, Lead, 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
Bruce FarmLead, Silver, ZincOccurrence
CalamineLead, ZincPast Producer
Fugate HollowZinc, DolomiteProspect
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
FitzhughLead, ZincPast Producer
GolcondaZinc, LeadPast Producer
UnkZinc, LeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sharp County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calamine in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2008: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCalamine-Strong winds blew siding off a mobile home.
August 2006Flash FloodCalamine-Heavy rains flooded several roads, including Highway 115.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCalamine-Thunderstorm winds blew down some power lines around Calamine.
June 2008HailCalamine-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCalamine-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindCalamine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sharp 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
Shelbyville3.6 miles11
Nelsonville4.3 miles8
Reed (historical)4.5 miles8
Balboa (historical)5.6 miles8
Aetna5.6 miles11
Poughkeepsie6.2 miles8
Simco (historical)6.3 miles11
Amateur (historical)7.3 miles8

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 CalamineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5018410The 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 47275. 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.