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Keechi, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Oakwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75831. The Survey maps it on the Keechi quadrangle.

Keechi within Leon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Keechi between 1996 and 2020, burning about 470 acres in total. None 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceADOLPH RODELL
20 September 2005Smoking12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 276
1 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMRS. TINA HOOKER
25 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 430
19 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
19 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTRUCTURE FIRE
23 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CR 391

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leon 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 Keechi: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General, Halite. 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
Oakwood Salt DomeGypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General, HaliteOccurrence1928

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keechi in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2015: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindKeechi$5,000Large tree limbs were knocked off trees with estimated 70 MPH winds associated with the rear flank downdraft of the thunderstorm.
April 2015HailKeechi-Penny sized hail was reported at Highway 79 and FM 832 between Buffalo and Oakwood.
July 2007Flash FloodKeechi-CR 542 was flooded near Keechi Creek and closed. Roads were also flooded and closed in the extreme southern part of the county.

Every storm recorded in Leon 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
Buffalo6.6 miles8
Flo7.1 miles9
Oakwood7.2 miles8
Sand Flats7.8 miles8
Timesville9.0 miles8
Corinth10.3 miles8
Midway10.3 miles9
Saint Paul10.3 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122567841The 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 1380866. 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.