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Keeter, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Boyd-Rhome census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76023. The Survey maps it on the Boyd quadrangle.

Keeter within Wise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

106 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Keeter between 2005 and 2018, burning about 5,028 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Debris and open burning37
Equipment and vehicle use17
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service217 CR 4860
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service960 JENNINGS LN
1 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service500 SMITH ROAD
8 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4577
6 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4691
5 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4791
29 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service995 W. WHITE DOVE
29 August 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR4680

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wise County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Keeter: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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
Boyd PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
General Portland Newark DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wise County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keeter in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 8 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2024HailKeeter$500,000Grapefruit sized hail was reported 5 miles northeast of Springtown by an NWS employee.
April 2024HailKeeter$300,000Report from mPing.
September 2020LightningKeeter$30,000Lightning started a house fire in the Boyd area of Wise County.
April 2026HailKeeter$7,000Spotter network report of 1.75 inch hail north of Springtown.
May 2009HailKeeter$2,000Golfball size hail was reported near Keeter at FM 2048 and CR 4796.
March 2009HailKeeter$1,000One inch size hail covered the ground at a home along Keeter Road west of Boyd.
April 2026HailKeeter-Report of 1 inch hail from mPING.
May 2009HailKeeter-Quarter size hail was reported 4 miles southwest of Boyd.
May 1997HailKeeter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wise 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
Lucky Ridge2.9 miles9
Fairview3.7 miles12
Boyd4.0 miles12
Briar4.6 miles20
Cottondale5.3 miles9
Aurora6.1 miles12
Annaville6.1 miles12
Newark Beach6.1 miles20

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 Q122596710The 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 1378518. 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.