Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada
30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89039. The Survey maps it on the Tenmile Well quadrangle. 144 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,579 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCal-Nev-Ari fell from 244 to 144 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 244 | |
| 2020 | 144 | -100 (-41%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 30 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.
- 1886 USGS Camp Mohave quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Camp Mohave quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
- 1926 USGS Mohave City quadrangle1:96000
- 1942 USGS Camp Mohave quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Searchlight quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1982 USGS Davis Dam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Tenmile Well quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Cal-Nev-Ari in 1996, burning under an acre in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Nevada District Office | NATOUT1 |
| 31 July 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Lake Mead National Recreation Area | ELDORADO I |
Storms near this place
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cal-Nev-Ari in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 5 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cal-Nev-Ari | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees in Cal-Nev-Ari. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Cal-Nev-Ari | $2,000 | Highway 95 was closed near Highway 163 to clear flood debris from the road. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Cal-Nev-Ari | $2,000 | Several roads were impassable in Cal-Nev-Ari. A spotter measured 2.10 inches of rain. |
| May 2025 | Flash Flood | Cal-Nev-Ari | $1,000 | Highway 95 was flooded just north of Highway 163. |
| March 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Cal-Nev-Ari | - | A funnel cloud was photographed near Spirit Mountain. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Cal-Nev-Ari | - | Water and mud over two intersections in Laughlin. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Cal-Nev-Ari | - | Water covered some roads. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Cal-Nev-Ari | - | Reported in Laughlin. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cal-Nev-Ari | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph were reported in Cal-Nev-Ari. |
| April 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Cal-Nev-Ari | - | A small tornado was spotted over open terrain near the three state junction over the Colorado River. This tornado then moved into Mohave County, Arizona. |
| September 1994 | Hail | Cal-Nev-Ari | - | A severe thunderstorm dropped one-inch hail and 0.71 inches of rain. |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cal-Nev-Ari | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kerwin Camp (historical) | 9.0 miles | 31 | |
| Emerald City (historical) | 10.7 miles | 30 | |
| Camp Sunrise (historical) | 11.1 miles | 30 | |
| Searchlight | 11.2 miles | 30 | |
| Wallace (historical) | 15.6 miles | 29 | |
| Morgantown (historical) | 16.5 miles | 26 | |
| Copper Camp (historical) | 17.6 miles | 29 | |
| Laughlin | 19.0 miles | 33 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Cal-Nev-Ari | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2482960 | 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 858257. 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.












