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Keith, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Maxwell precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69151. The Survey maps it on the Maxwell quadrangle.

Keith within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

14 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Keith between 2009 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
12 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 July 2020Naturalunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 July 2019Naturalunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 June 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 May 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

20 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keith in 20 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
July 2025HailKeith$100,000Fire department reports window damage to several buildings in northeastern Lincoln and southern Logan County.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindKeith$25,000Shed destroyed. The bottom plate was nailed down, but the studs looked partially rotted.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindKeith$25,000A wood frame machine shed was destroyed. Door facing the wind was open.
July 2015FloodKeith$15,000Several roads on Garfield Table in northeastern Lincoln County are flooded.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindKeith$3,000Fire department reported electrical transmission lines down over Garfield Table Road.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindKeith-A weather station measured a 68 mph wind gust.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindKeith-KLBF measured an 87 mph wind gust.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindKeith-No damage reported.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindKeith-No damage reported.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindKeith-no account filed
May 2025HailKeith-no account filed
June 2022HailKeith-no account filed
May 2019HailKeith-no account filed
July 2017HailKeith-no account filed
May 2016HailKeith-no account filed
September 2016HailKeith-no account filed
May 2016HailKeith-no account filed
July 2015HailKeith-no account filed
June 2014HailKeith-no account filed
June 2014HailKeith-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Maxwell2.2 miles13
Bignell3.1 miles13
Beck7.6 miles14
Sioux View Park10.2 miles14
North Platte10.9 miles14
Brady11.4 miles9
Key Estates12.3 miles14
Village Square13.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 835345. 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.