BlockCalhoun, Oklahoma
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Panama-Bokoshe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74956. The Survey maps it on the Poteau West quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1900 USGS Sallisaw quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1911 USGS Sallisaw quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Poteau West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1977 USGS Poteau West quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
121 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Calhoun between 1992 and 2019, burning about 11,892 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 43 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 52 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 43 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 90 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,700 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | CALHOUN |
| 30 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20419 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calhoun in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Calhoun | 2 hurt, $100,000 | At 838 PM CDT, a tornado touched down in the small community of Calhoun. Six homes in Calhoun were damaged, four of which were considered destroyed. One of the six was a mobile home. Two minor injuries occurred when a home was lifted off of its concrete block foundation and destroyed. Wind speed estimates based on the damage suggests velocities were in the upper end of the F1 category, meaning wind in Calhoun were near 110 mph. |
| May 2025 | Tornado (EF1) | Calhoun | - | This tornado developed near Calhoun and moved northeast across Calhoun Road and Roy Monks Road, where trees were uprooted and large tree limbs were snapped. The tornado uprooted numerous trees and snapped numerous tree limbs as it crossed Latham Road, Highway 59, and Waterfield Street. The tornado continued to move northeast and likely dissipated west of County Road 1240. The survey team attempted to access areas east of Highway 59 where the tornado likely tracked, but all available roads into those areas were severely flooded by the Poteau River, thus the path east of Waterfield Street is estimated based on the continuation of a tornadic debris signature and tight velocity couplet from the KSRX WSR-88D. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 95 to 105 mph. |
| June 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Calhoun | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latham | 3.4 miles | 17 | |
| Bedwell | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Shady Point | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Witteville | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Dog Creek | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| Panama | 5.9 miles | 14 | |
| Bokoshe | 6.1 miles | 16 | |
| Kennady | 6.2 miles | 17 |
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 Calhoun | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q115518012 | 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 1100258. 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.