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Keyton, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Enterprise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36330. It stands on Little Cowpen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Enterprise quadrangle. It stands 348 feet above sea level.

Keyton within Coffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Keyton between 1994 and 2019, burning about 170 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-3
30 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190729-11
10 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCR 167, AL
31 May 2001Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee 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 Keyton: 4 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed MineIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Coffee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keyton in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2020Thunderstorm WindKeyton-Trees were blown down on Highway 167 South at County Road 709.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindKeyton-Multiple trees were blown down across the southeast portion of Enterprise.

Every storm recorded in Coffee 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
Pinedale Estates1.5 miles12
College Heights1.6 miles12
Green Acres1.7 miles12
Singing Brook1.8 miles12
Coppinville1.9 miles12
Enterprise2.7 miles12
Jamestown Colony2.7 miles12
Regency Heights2.9 miles12

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 KeytonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058490The 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 121181. 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.