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Keene, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Blue Butte Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58847. The Survey maps it on the Keene quadrangle. It stands 2,444 feet above sea level.

Keene within McKenzie County

On record in Keene

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

10 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Keene between 2011 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
6 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBRENNA 2019093
19 August 2019Naturalunder an acreFort Berthold AgencyHESS
11 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service2020-045
30 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCAMEL-1
20 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service2019084
25 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service2018051
28 May 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceREC 2019059
18 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHESS 01

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKenzie County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Keene: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in McKenzie County

Storms near this place

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keene in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 17 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. The reports record 5 injuries. 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
August 1995HailKeene5 hurt, $2,000,000Softball-size hail reported by Department of Emergency Services. Eighty-five sections in NE McKenzie County affected with nearly $7 million damage to crops and buildings.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindKeene$50,000Emergency management estimated winds to be gusting around 80 mph.
September 1996HailKeene$30,000no account filed
May 2024HailKeene-The hail combined with wind to lay down five inch tall wheat, but most of it was expected to recover.
July 2014Funnel CloudKeene-A funnel cloud came within approximately 150 feet of the ground. Reports were that there was no debris visible at the surface and that there was no damage.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindKeene-Reported by various sources including a NWS cooperative observer and McKenzie County road crew. Many small wrist size tree branches broken.
June 2003HailKeene-Mostly pea size hail.
June 2003HailKeene-Farmer reported 20% of his canola crop destroyed.
August 1995HailKeene-Mckenzie County sheriff reported several houses and cars with windows broken.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindKeene-no account filed
June 2021Funnel CloudKeene-no account filed
June 2016HailKeene-no account filed
June 2013HailKeene-no account filed
June 2012HailKeene-no account filed
June 2012HailKeene-no account filed
August 2011HailKeene-no account filed
August 2010HailKeene-no account filed
June 2010HailKeene-no account filed
July 2008HailKeene-no account filed
June 2004HailKeene-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindKeene-no account filed
June 1999HailKeene-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Keene-no account filed
August 1998HailKeene-no account filed
September 1996Tornado (F0)Keene-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McKenzie 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
Hawkeye5.9 miles8
Johnsons Corner8.5 miles8
Charlson9.9 miles5
Croff12.4 miles8
Banks15.5 miles8
Schafer15.7 miles7
Spotted Horn19.3 miles7
Mandaree19.6 miles7

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 KeeneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6382886The 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 1034953. 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.