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Keytons, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Madrid census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36301. The Survey maps it on the Cottonwood quadrangle.

Keytons within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

72 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Keytons between 1994 and 2019, burning about 363 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
20 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Debris and open burning19 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined24 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140823-001
1 August 2010Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.9 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140730-001
30 July 1996Smoking1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keytons in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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 2017LightningKeytons1 killedA 16 years old boy was standing on the porch of his home when a nearby tree was struck by lightning off Willie Varnum Road. The lightning then jumped from the tree to the boy, killing him.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindKeytons$2,000Multiple trees were blown down on Willie Varnum Road between County Road 33 and Harper Joy Road.
February 2024Flash FloodKeytons-Patterson Road was impassible due to water over a foot deep flowing over the roadway.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindKeytons-Several trees were blown down around the Hodgesville area.
July 2016Flash FloodKeytons-County Road 33 at Willie Varnum Road was reported underwater. Radar estimated that 3-4 inches of rain fell in 1 hour.

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Memphis1.7 miles8
Hodgesville1.8 miles8
Ward Acres2.5 miles8
Wiregrass Hills3.7 miles8
Wilson Quarters3.8 miles9
Newton3.9 miles8
Roland4.0 miles8
Big Creek4.4 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122555848The 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 151952. 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.