[2] During the fall of 1890, George H. Sewell, district deputy grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, established a new organizational lodge for the fraternal service group in Kecksburg.

Keck & Sons purchased Jacob Rumbaugh's farm in Kecksburg, which was located adjacent to land owned by the Frick Coke Company in Mammoth.

[4] During early November of that same year, intense forest fires on the mountainside above the communities of Kecksburg and Waterford destroyed roughly thirty thousand acres of timber.

[5] In December 1892, Pittsburgh-area newspapers reported on an investigation by "three to ten men" of "so-called supernatural phenomena" that had allegedly been occurring at an "old stone farmhouse" in Kecksburg for "some weeks past."

[9] To celebrate this local event, the Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department holds an annual festival featuring presentations by UFO enthusiasts, vendor booths, and a community parade.