BlockCanale, Arkansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Roane Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71826. The Survey maps it on the Doddridge SE quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Doddridge SE quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Magnolia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
51 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Canale between 1997 and 2018, burning about 404 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Smoking | 58 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.8 acres | Louisiana Office of Forestry | not named |
| 20 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canale in 7 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 4 tornado, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | Tornado (EF1) | Canale | $135,000 | A strong EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 110 mph touched down along the Red River along the Miller/Lafayette County line, and tracked northeast across an open pasture and a levee just west of Lafayette County Road 57, where it snapped and uprooted several trees. The tornado then tracked across Lafayette County Roads 57 and 47, before moving across open farmland as it moved northeast towards Highway 160 west of Gin City. The Lafayette County Emergency Manager visually confirmed that the tornado remained on the ground across the open farmland, before snapping 7 wooden power poles along Highway 160 just west of Gin City. The tornado again moved across open farmland to the northwest of Gin City, before snapping 3 additional wooden power poles and a couple of trees, while ripping a small portion of a metal roof off of a home. The tornado lifted near a grove of trees behind Pleasant Valley Mennonite Church. |
| July 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Canale | $55,000 | This is a continuation of the Northern Bossier Parish tornado. This EF-1 tornado, with maximum estimated winds near 105 mph, tracked north into extreme Southwest Lafayette County just east of County Road 1, where it remained over mainly open farmland before damaging 6 power poles just south of the intersection of County Road 1 and Lafayette 47. Two of these power poles were snapped, which resulted in the 105 mph estimated maximum wind rating, before the tornado crossed Lafayette 47 across a corn field where it laid out a 50 yard wide section of corn. Pictures and video were taken of the tornado over open farmland before lifting about 300 yards southwest of a farm along Highway 160 west of Gin City. This same storm was part of a multi-vortex tornado, with a second tornado having produced minor damage about 3/4 mile to the west along Lafayette 47. |
| April 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Canale | $50,000 | A brief EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 110 mph touched down and tracked east along and just south of County Road 7 in the far southwestern portion of Lafayette County. Despite its short path, the tornado produced higher end EF-1 damage with maximum estimated wind speeds attributed to snapping of power poles and the near destruction of a metal barn housing hay bales. Otherwise, damage was mostly limited to trees in the form of uproots, trunk snaps, and downing of large limbs. |
| July 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Canale | - | A brief EF-0 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 74 mph touched down in extreme Western Lafayette County Arkansas along Lafayette Road 47, downing some large tree limbs. This tornado was part of a multi-vortex tornado, that tracked north across some agricultural fields and lifted. An end point of damage could not be located in these fields, but a tornadic debris signature was evident of the NWS Shreveport Doppler radar, and dissipated between Lafayette Road 47 and Highway 160 east of County Road 57. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Canale | - | Golf ball size hail reported via mPING around 7 miles southwest of Bradley. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Canale | - | Nickel size hail reported on County Roads 47 and 57. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canale | - | Trees downed along County Roads 47 and 57. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Valley | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Gin City | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| Walnut Hill | 7.5 miles | 17 | |
| Kizer | 8.0 miles | 17 | |
| Bradley | 8.7 miles | 17 | |
| Grants | 10.3 miles | 15 | |
| Burton Mill | 12.0 miles | 15 | |
| Canfield | 12.5 miles | 15 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122591502 | 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 57499. 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.