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.
Population over time
2 figuresKenvir 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 297 | |
| 2020 | 204 | -93 (-31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 24 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.
- 1887 USGS Jonesville quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Jonesville quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
- 1916 USGS Nolansburg quadrangle1:48000
- 1919 USGS Nolansburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1935 USGS Evarts quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evarts quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Evarts quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Middlesboro quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
100 since 1996Regional 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 burning | 37 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 25 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 17 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | KILDAV FIR |
| 20 June 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 66 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 19 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BALL CEMETERY RD |
| 3 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | RIVER RIDGE |
| 22 May 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | JONES CREEK FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2024Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenvir | $1,000 | Trees and power lines were downed at a residence on James Court, off KY-215, between the Redbud and Kenvir communities. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Mountain | 0.7 miles | 24 | |
| Redbud | 0.7 miles | 24 | |
| Woods | 1.3 miles | 24 | |
| Short Town | 1.7 miles | 23 | |
| Darkmont | 1.8 miles | 24 | |
| River Ridge | 1.8 miles | 23 | |
| Colts | 1.9 miles | 23 | |
| Evarts | 2.0 miles | 24 |
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 Kenvir | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5959162 | 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 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.











