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Keene, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Callahan-Hilliard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32011. The Survey maps it on the Dinsmore quadrangle.

Keene within Nassau County

Then and now

1917 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Keene, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Keene, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

167 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Keene between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,492 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 16 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 burning38
Natural34
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
21 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2003-07-1091
17 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePONDEROSA 2003-07-1085
10 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest Service45 ACREE 2007-07-0525
7 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2011Natural18 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHOMAS CREEK PRESERVE (16)
25 August 2018Natural5.3 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLOGGING ROAD (45)
24 August 1999Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau 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
Crawford2.5 miles17
Ratliff3.0 miles18
Dahoma3.4 miles17
Nassau Village5.0 miles18
Verdie5.2 miles17
Callahan5.5 miles18
Ingle6.2 miles17
Kent6.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295386. 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.