Calvin, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72410. It stands on Marrow Bone Slough. The Survey maps it on the Alicia quadrangle.

Calvin within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1935 USGS Alicia quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Alicia quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Calvin between 1999 and 2018, burning about 122 acres in total. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	1
Natural	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
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2006	Smoking	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 July 2006	Natural	60 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 June 2006	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 March 2005	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calvin in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Calvin	$10,000	This is a correction - The emergency manager verified the damage was a small grain bin blown across the road into some trees near the intersection of Highway 367 and Calvin Crossing Road.
July 2022	Heavy Rain	Calvin	-	A COOP Observer measured 6.20 inches of rain.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Alicia	2.9 miles	10
Broom (historical)	3.4 miles	10
Minturn	3.5 miles	10
Hopewell	3.7 miles	10
Strangers Home	3.8 miles	10
Clover Bend	4.0 miles	10
Bessie (historical)	4.7 miles	11
Lindsey	4.8 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 56949. 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.