Calis, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72736. The Survey maps it on the Hiwasse quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Calis within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1899 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1904 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Hiwasse quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

20 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Calis (historical) between 2002 and 2020, burning about 386 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	2

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
9 August 2012	Natural	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2012	Natural	22 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 April 2002	Arson/incendiarism	85 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 March 2007	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 March 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton 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 Calis (historical): 1 unknown. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Seba	1.7 miles	17
Race (historical)	2.2 miles	17
Centerton	2.4 miles	17
Parn (historical)	2.8 miles	17
Pond (historical)	3.5 miles	16
Miller	4.2 miles	17
Vaughn	4.4 miles	17
Gallatin (historical)	5.4 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 75414. 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.