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Kenvir, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Harlan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40828. It lies near Fisher Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Evarts quadrangle. 204 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,457 feet above sea level.

Kenvir within Harlan County

Population over time

2 figures

Kenvir fell from 297 to 204 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
2010297
2020204-93 (-31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

100 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Kenvir between 1996 and 2020, burning about 6,211 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 25 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Arson/incendiarism25
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
23 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 June 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKILDAV FIR
20 June 1999Arson/incendiarism66 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 May 2020Debris and open burning19 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBALL CEMETERY RD
3 May 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRIVER RIDGE
22 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJONES CREEK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenvir in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindKenvir$1,000Trees and power lines were downed at a residence on James Court, off KY-215, between the Redbud and Kenvir communities.

Every storm recorded in Harlan 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
Black Mountain0.7 miles24
Redbud0.7 miles24
Woods1.3 miles24
Short Town1.7 miles23
Darkmont1.8 miles24
River Ridge1.8 miles23
Colts1.9 miles23
Evarts2.0 miles24

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 KenvirAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5959162The 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 495684. 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.