BlockCavell, Arkansas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cotton Plant Township. The Survey maps it on the Augusta quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1935 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:62500
- 1968 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
25 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Cavell between 1992 and 2014, burning about 255 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
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 1999 | Smoking | 29 acres | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | COLE |
| 1 July 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 June 1998 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 June 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 June 2004 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 March 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | HWY260#1 |
| 21 March 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.3 acres | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | HWY260#2 |
| 20 March 2001 | Smoking | 4.0 acres | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | TRACT 191A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cavell in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2020: 4 flood. 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 2013 | Flood | Cavell | $10,000 | The Cache River at Patterson rose above flood stage during the afternoon of the 11th, and remained above flood stage for over 2 weeks. The river fell below flood stage during the late afternoon hours on the 29th. |
| September 2020 | Flood | Cavell | - | Heavy rain brought flooding to the Cache River at Patterson in early September. |
| June 2020 | Flood | Cavell | - | Flooding continued into June on the Cache River at Patterson. |
| August 2010 | Flood | Cavell | - | The Cache River at Patterson remained above flood stage until the afternoon of the 4th, after rising above flood stage in the middle of July. |
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.
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 Q122542401 | 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 57531. 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.