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Kenneth City, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the St. Petersburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33709. The Survey maps it on the Saint Petersburg quadrangle. 5,047 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 20 feet above sea level.

Kenneth City within Pinellas County

Then and now

1921 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kenneth City, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Kenneth City, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Kenneth City grew from 4,980 to 5,047 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
20104,980
20205,047+67 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Kenneth City between 1992 and 2017, burning about 382 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1996Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2015Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSEMINOLE (52)
4 June 2000Equipment and vehicle use60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 May 2000Equipment and vehicle use100 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 May 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 May 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenneth City in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 3 lightning, 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
September 2014LightningKenneth City$20,000Pinellas County Emergency Management reported a lightning strike to a house in Saint Petersburg. Additionally, a tree was also reported to have fallen onto the house.
July 2010LightningKenneth City$15,000Lightning struck a house near the intersection of 19th Avenue North and 60th Street North and made a hole in the roof.
August 2009LightningKenneth City$10,000Lightning struck a Toys R Us store and caused minor damage.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindKenneth City$5,000Broadcast media relayed a report of a downed fence in the Tyrone area of Saint Petersburg. A carport was also ripped off of a mobile home in the same area.
June 2025HailKenneth City-Quarter size hail reported in North St Petersburg near 33rd Avenue.
August 2022FloodKenneth City-Broadcast media relayed video of street flooding along 38th Avenue North in St. Petersburg.
August 2022HailKenneth City-Trained spotter reported quarter size hail near Kenneth City.
May 2015HailKenneth City-A trained Skywarn spotter reported nickel size hail falling near the intersection of 30th Ave. and 66th Street near Pinellas Park. His spotter ID was PIN-631A.

Every storm recorded in Pinellas 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
Pinellas Park2.2 miles18
Lealman2.2 miles18
The Jungle2.5 miles15
Cross Bayou3.0 miles18
Bay Pines3.1 miles15
Pasadena3.2 miles18
Saint Petersburg3.8 miles18
Mitchell Beach4.0 miles15

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 Kenneth CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2092522The 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 294454. 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.