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Keelville, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Lyon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66713. The Survey maps it on the Melrose quadrangle.

Keelville within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Keelville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 327 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3

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 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresMiami AgencyTOMLISON
22 September 2010Naturalunder an acreMiami AgencyVINE
29 August 2010Debris and open burning5.5 acresMiami AgencyCRAWFISH
11 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service222
24 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
26 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service133
9 March 2008Arson/incendiarism7.3 acresMiami AgencyLEAD LAKE
19 March 2007Arson/incendiarism8.5 acresMiami Agency3 GUYS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Keelville: 36 past producers, 5 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Stover TractZincPast Producer1935
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Dale Epersons Trucking Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
A. E. Van Tebra LandLead, ZincPast Producer1944
Bendelari MineLead, ZincPast Producer1919, 1921
Burns TractLead, ZincProspect1947
Chubb-Stoskopf LeaseLead, ZincPast Producer1930, 1932
Coffee WestLead, ZincPast Producer1944

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Melrose1.9 miles19
Cravensville4.1 miles21
Treece (historical)4.7 miles21
Faulkner6.8 miles20
Neutral8.2 miles21
Baxter Junction9.4 miles18
Commonwealth9.9 miles18
Baxter Springs9.9 miles18

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 KeelvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18153895The 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 484433. 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.