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Calva, Arizona

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the San Carlos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85530. It stands on Fivemile Wash. The Survey maps it on the Calva quadrangle.

Calva within Graham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

295 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 295 fires within 5 miles of Calva between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,536 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 114 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/incendiarism114
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Debris and open burning45
Misuse of fire by a minor44
Smoking17
Natural9
Fireworks7
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Carlos AgencyMIRACLE
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Carlos AgencyOIL CAN
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Carlos AgencyCULBERT
27 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Carlos AgencyFARMERS
4 August 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSan Carlos AgencyEMS
3 August 2004Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSan Carlos AgencyWHITE CITY
3 August 2001Naturalunder an acreSan Carlos AgencyBLOW
28 August 2020Smoking937 acresSan Carlos AgencyLIGHT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Graham County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Calva: 3 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Copper, Gold. 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
Black IronIron, CopperPast Producer
Myres PropertyCopper, GoldOccurrence
Southland Copper ClaimsGold, Copper, SilverProspect
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Graham County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calva in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCalva$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree, which well on a vehicle at Rodeo Lane near Highway 70 in Peridot.
August 2020HailCalva-no account filed
August 2015Thunderstorm WindCalva-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Graham 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
Bylas4.8 miles13
Natches6.4 miles14
Geronimo10.7 miles13
Emery11.8 miles13
Ellison Place (historical)13.6 miles14
Fort Thomas15.3 miles11
Aravaipa17.8 miles18
Ashurst19.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2383. 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.