Keener, Arkansas

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 6. It lies in ZIP code area 72950. It stands on Negro Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boles quadrangle.

Keener within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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.

1879 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:62500
1887 USGS Poteau Mountain #1 quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1939 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1940 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Waldron quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Boles quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Mena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

73 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Keener between 1994 and 2020, burning about 791 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 22 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 burning	23
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
9 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	THREE DOGS
10 September 2004	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Needmore	2.0 miles	31
Parks	2.2 miles	16
Buffalo (historical)	2.4 miles	31
Boles	3.3 miles	31
The Pines	5.4 miles	31
Chant (historical)	5.8 miles	19
Pleasant Valley	6.2 miles	31
Y City	6.5 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 66295. 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.