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Keo, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Lafayette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72083. The Survey maps it on the Keo quadrangle. 207 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 230 feet above sea level.

Keo within Lonoke County

On record in Keo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Keo fell from 235 to 207 between 2000 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
2000235
2010256+21 (+9%)
2020207-49 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Keo between 2000 and 2017, burning about 67 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
27 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 May 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 December 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lonoke County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Keo: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
England Pit & PlantClayProducer
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lonoke County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keo in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
October 2014Tornado (EF1)Keo$100,000This tornado exited Pulaski County 2.9 miles east of Wampoo and entered Lonoke County 3.1 miles south of Keo. Much of the tornado's track was across farm fields. However, trees were knocked down in several tree lines. A couple of miles north of England, a farm shop was destroyed, and a second farm shop, tractor shed, and house were damaged.
April 2017Heavy RainKeo-The 24 hour rainfall total was 3.67 inches.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindKeo-A tree was reported down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindKeo-Large limbs were down across Walter Estes Road.
November 2004Tornado (F0)Keo-A weak F0 tornado touched down north of Keo and tracked to the northeast for about 8.6 miles before dissipating. Two homes sustained roof damage and a portion of a barn roof was blown off. Several tall trees were snapped off and a few power poles were blown down.
August 2008HailKeo-no account filed
June 2003HailKeo-no account filed
February 1999Thunderstorm WindKeo-no account filed
February 1998HailKeo-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindKeo-no account filed
April 1995HailKeo-no account filed
November 1995HailKeo-no account filed
July 1995HailKeo-no account filed
May 1994HailKeo-no account filed
May 1994HailKeo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lonoke 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
Cobbs1.8 miles17
Wabbel2.3 miles17
Willow Belle2.5 miles17
Toltec4.2 miles17
England4.6 miles15
Hamiter5.1 miles17
Boyd (historical)6.2 miles15
Blakemore6.7 miles15

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 KeoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2580662The 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 50819. 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.