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Cale, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Caney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71858. The Survey maps it on the Bluff City quadrangle. 73 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 335 feet above sea level.

Cale within Nevada County

Population over time

3 figures

Cale fell from 75 to 73 between 2000 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
200075
201079+4 (+5%)
202073-6 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

61 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Cale between 1997 and 2020, burning about 625 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 18 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/incendiarism18
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
25 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2004Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nevada County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Cale: 5 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
E IngramSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Mccrea PropertyIronPast Producer
Rosston DepositsIronPast Producer
UnkIronPast Producer
UnkIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Nevada County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cale in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Tornado (EF2)Cale$250,000An EF2 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 115 mph touched down late in the evening on March 14th, 2025, along County Road 2434 near the intersection with Highway 200 where damage to vegetation was noted, mainly in the form of large branches broken and a few uprooted trees. The tornado then continued northeast, causing more damage around the intersection of County Road 432 and County Road 45. Here, major loss of roof panels was noted on several small barns and outbuildings. The tornado then continued to track a few miles northeast, passing near Dills Mills and surrounding forested land before strengthening and passing along Highway 299, north of its intersection with County Road 47. This stretch of highway, between County Road 47 and County Road 423, featured extensive damage to trees, with numerous trees snapped and uprooted, some of which fell onto several homes. The tornado reached its peak intensity in this area, with winds speeds of around 115 mph. The tornado continued east/northeast across County Road 424 where more tree damage was found. The tornado's track would then end at White Oak Lake State Park where additional tree damage was found, causing all hiking trails in the park to be temporarily closed. The tornado may have continued briefly over White Oak Lake before lifting as it moved near the Ouachita County line.
April 2011HailCale-no account filed
January 1999Thunderstorm WindCale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nevada 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
Oak Grove1.9 miles16
Rosston3.0 miles15
Morris3.0 miles16
New Mount Moriah (historical)3.4 miles15
Dills Mills3.4 miles16
Serepta Springs (historical)3.7 miles15
Ames3.8 miles16
Mount Moriah4.0 miles15

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 CaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2186419The 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 57489. 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.