BlockKeith, North Dakota
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1994. It stands in South Minnewaukan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58301. The Survey maps it on the Devils Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1931 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
35 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Keith between 1995 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | TOWER |
| 8 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | THISTLE |
| 3 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | OLD 2 |
| 5 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | FALSE |
| 16 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | 248 |
| 15 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | PASTURE |
| 1 July 2015 | Fireworks | under an acre | Fort Totten Agency | STAND |
| 13 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | ROHR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keith in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essex | 2.0 miles | 8 | |
| Rohrville | 6.0 miles | 7 | |
| Crary | 6.2 miles | 8 | |
| Devils Lake | 6.7 miles | 14 | |
| Camp Grafton | 9.3 miles | 14 | |
| Lakewood Park | 9.5 miles | 14 | |
| Sweetwater | 10.5 miles | 14 | |
| Southam | 11.5 miles | 7 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033767. 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.