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Keenan, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77316. The Survey maps it on the Keenan quadrangle.

Keenan within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Keenan between 1992 and 2019, burning about 485 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 388
29 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 428
24 September 2004Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 37
22 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 35
21 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 32
21 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2004Debris and open burning16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 24
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service190054979

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keenan in 2 storm reports in 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2019Tornado (EF0)Keenan$6,000This EF-0 tornado downed or snapped several trees, including one on a trailer.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindKeenan-There were trees down across FM 2854 near Keenan Cutoff Road.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Honea2.4 miles13
Gary4.2 miles12
Peel Junction5.3 miles14
Montgomery5.4 miles14
Karen5.4 miles12
Leonidas5.9 miles13
Mostyn6.8 miles11
Bobville7.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378517. 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.