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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.

Cal-Nev-Ari within Clark County

Population over time

2 figures

Cal-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.

YearPeople Change
2010244
2020144-100 (-41%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 30 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

2 since 1996

Regional 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/undetermined1
Natural1

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
31 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeNATOUT1
31 July 1996Naturalunder an acreLake Mead National Recreation AreaELDORADO I

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2014Thunderstorm WindCal-Nev-Ari$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees in Cal-Nev-Ari.
August 2016Flash FloodCal-Nev-Ari$2,000Highway 95 was closed near Highway 163 to clear flood debris from the road.
August 2014Flash FloodCal-Nev-Ari$2,000Several roads were impassable in Cal-Nev-Ari. A spotter measured 2.10 inches of rain.
May 2025Flash FloodCal-Nev-Ari$1,000Highway 95 was flooded just north of Highway 163.
March 2015Funnel CloudCal-Nev-Ari-A funnel cloud was photographed near Spirit Mountain.
July 2006Flash FloodCal-Nev-Ari-Water and mud over two intersections in Laughlin.
July 2006Flash FloodCal-Nev-Ari-Water covered some roads.
July 2006HailCal-Nev-Ari-Reported in Laughlin.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindCal-Nev-Ari-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph were reported in Cal-Nev-Ari.
April 2001Tornado (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 1994HailCal-Nev-Ari-A severe thunderstorm dropped one-inch hail and 0.71 inches of rain.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindCal-Nev-Ari-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Kerwin Camp (historical)9.0 miles31
Emerald City (historical)10.7 miles30
Camp Sunrise (historical)11.1 miles30
Searchlight11.2 miles30
Wallace (historical)15.6 miles29
Morgantown (historical)16.5 miles26
Copper Camp (historical)17.6 miles29
Laughlin19.0 miles33

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-AriAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2482960The 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.