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Keri, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the LaBelle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33930. It lies near Dog Island. The Survey maps it on the Felda quadrangle.

Keri within Hendry County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Keri, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Keri, surveyed 1956

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

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Keri between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,261 acres in total. 34 started naturally. None 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
Natural34
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking1

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
29 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 1992Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2004-17-0442
18 July 2015Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceEUCALYPTUS 2 (26)
18 July 2012Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSEARS (26)
11 July 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service26/THE UNKNOWN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hendry County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keri in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 3 hail. 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
May 2021HailKeri-A trained spotter reported hail up to quarter size (1.00 inch) on Highway 29 in Hendry County between Labelle and Felda.
March 2017HailKeri-A member of the public called to report quarter size hail on West Boundary Road. There were multiple reports of penny to dime size hail also reported in the area.
June 2012HailKeri-Hendry County Sheriff's officer reported baseball sized hail near the intersection of State Route 833 and State Route 846.

Every storm recorded in Hendry 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
Sears3.4 miles12
Felda5.0 miles12
Port LaBelle11.0 miles12
LaBelle11.7 miles12
Denaud12.1 miles13
Whidden Corner19.1 miles11
Harlem24.7 miles11
Sugarton25.1 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294825. 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.