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Kennedy, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Millport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35574. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kennedy quadrangle. 435 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 289 feet above sea level.

Kennedy within Lamar County

Population over time

2 figures

Kennedy fell from 447 to 435 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010447
2020435-12 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

52 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Kennedy between 1994 and 2020, burning about 351 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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 burning14
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking5
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2013Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20130909-001
9 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20130909-002
15 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2007Natural3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kennedy in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 5 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths and 1 injury. 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
November 2001Tornado (F3)Kennedy2 killed, 1 hurt, $600,000no account filed
September 2005Tornado (F1)Kennedy$70,000no account filed
March 2006Tornado (F0)Kennedy$20,000An F0 tornado touched down near the intersection of State Highway 17 and State Highway 96, approximately 1.5 miles southwest of Kennedy. The tornado moved northeastward and crossed County Road 49 before it lifted just east of Howell Road and State Highway 96. Several trees were blown down along the damage path and a few mobile homes suffered generally minor damage.
March 2009Tornado (EF1)Kennedy$10,000The tornado touched down near the intersection of Junkins Road and Holliman Road, in the southeastern portion of Lamar County. From there, it moved northeastward into Fayette County. In Lamar County, damage was confined to numerous trees that snapped and uprooted.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindKennedy$8,000Power lines were blown down in Kennedy. Some of the lines landed on a vehicle causing moderate damage.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindKennedy$4,000Several trees were blown down in the town of Kennedy. Pea size hail was also reported with this storm. A few trees were also blown down in the Crossville community.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindKennedy$3,000Several trees and power lines were blown down near the intersection of SR-17 and SR-96, just west of Kennedy.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindKennedy$3,000Trees were blown down on AL-17, just south of Kennedy.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindKennedy$3,000One home sustained shingle damage on CR 49 near Kennedy. A workshop had its roof partially torn off and one wall was caved. Several trees were blown down or snapped off.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindKennedy$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down around the Kennedy area.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindKennedy$2,000A few trees were blown down.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindKennedy$1,000Trees were blown down on AL-17, south of Kennedy.
May 2024HailKennedy-A photo of baseball size hail near Kennedy was relayed via social media.
December 2024Thunderstorm WindKennedy-A tree fell on a chicken pen in Kennedy.
August 2017Tornado (EF0)Kennedy-NWS meteorologists surveyed damage in extreme southeast Lamar County and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF0 tornado. This tornado moved out of Pickens County and across the extreme southeast tip of Lamar County. The tornado exited Lamar County near Junkins Road. Damage in Lamar County was limited mainly to uprooted pine trees.
March 2016HailKennedy-Half Dollar size hail reported in the town of Kennedy.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindKennedy-Several trees were uprooted and power lines were down near the town of Kennedy.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindKennedy-Trees were reported down near the intersection of County Road 2 and Highway 96.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindKennedy-Several trees were reported down in the town of Kennedy.
April 2011Flash FloodKennedy-A few roads in southern Lamar County were closed due to high water.
August 2009Flash FloodKennedy-Six inches of water was reported to be flowing across CR-49, near Kennedy.
June 2003HailKennedy-Penny size hail was observed just south of Kennedy.
May 1995HailKennedy-Half to three-quarter inch hail was reported at Kennedy.
April 2021HailKennedy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lamar 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
Millport5.4 miles12
Kingville6.3 miles13
Fernbank8.4 miles12
Hightogy9.5 miles13
Crossville10.9 miles13
Melborne11.6 miles12
Star11.8 miles13
Vernon13.5 miles12

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 KennedyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67761The 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 121145. 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.