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.
Then and now
1921 to 1998The 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.


Compare 1921 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresKenneth 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,980 | |
| 2020 | 5,047 | +67 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1921 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1921 USGS St. Petersburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:31680
- 1947 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:25000
- 1956 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS St. Petersburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1998 USGS Saint Petersburg quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
23 since 1992Regional 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 use | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1996 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 August 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2015 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | SEMINOLE (52) |
| 4 June 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 60 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 May 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 May 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 May 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 21 May 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2009Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2014 | Lightning | Kenneth City | $20,000 | Pinellas 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 2010 | Lightning | Kenneth City | $15,000 | Lightning struck a house near the intersection of 19th Avenue North and 60th Street North and made a hole in the roof. |
| August 2009 | Lightning | Kenneth City | $10,000 | Lightning struck a Toys R Us store and caused minor damage. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenneth City | $5,000 | Broadcast 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 2025 | Hail | Kenneth City | - | Quarter size hail reported in North St Petersburg near 33rd Avenue. |
| August 2022 | Flood | Kenneth City | - | Broadcast media relayed video of street flooding along 38th Avenue North in St. Petersburg. |
| August 2022 | Hail | Kenneth City | - | Trained spotter reported quarter size hail near Kenneth City. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Kenneth 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinellas Park | 2.2 miles | 18 | |
| Lealman | 2.2 miles | 18 | |
| The Jungle | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Cross Bayou | 3.0 miles | 18 | |
| Bay Pines | 3.1 miles | 15 | |
| Pasadena | 3.2 miles | 18 | |
| Saint Petersburg | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Mitchell Beach | 4.0 miles | 15 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2092522 | The 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.












