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Keene, Wisconsin

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Buena Vista town. It lies in ZIP code area 54921. The Survey maps it on the Almond quadrangle. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Keene within Portage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Keene between 1992 and 2020, burning about 369 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use39
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

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
20 September 2008Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSHADY 54 FIRE
7 July 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesAMISH ROAD FIRE
7 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2011Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage 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 Keene: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Portage PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Portage County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keene in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 funnel cloud. 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 2010Funnel CloudKeene-A rotating wall cloud and funnel were spotted about 6 miles southeast of Plover.

Every storm recorded in Portage 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
Coddington3.9 miles7
Bancroft4.5 miles7
West Bancroft5.2 miles7
West Almond5.6 miles6
Arnott6.4 miles6
Plover7.2 miles7
Fancher8.1 miles6
Almond8.3 miles6

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.

Wikipedia article on KeeneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6382887The 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 1577671. 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.