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Kevil, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the La Center census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42053. The Survey maps it on the La Center quadrangle. 595 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 430 feet above sea level.

Kevil within Ballard County

Population over time

2 figures

Kevil grew from 376 to 595 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
2010376
2020595+219 (+58%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 16 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

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Kevil between 1999 and 2012, burning about 23 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 December 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 November 2008Smoking5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 October 2011Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBIG BLUESTEM
3 October 2008Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 October 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 October 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTORTORELLI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ballard County

Storms near this place

28 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kevil in 28 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 heavy rain, 3 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
October 2001Thunderstorm WindKevil2 hurt, $25,000At a trailer park near Kevil, a mobile home was overturned, and another was turned on its side. Several other mobile homes received minor damage, such as underpinning blown away or small trees landing on roofs. Two persons in the overturned mobile home were injured. Both injured persons were treated and released by a local hospital. A National Weather Service on-site survey determined the damage was caused by straight-line winds of 80 to 90 MPH. Elsewhere in the county, a few trees were down and metal roofing was blown off barns.
July 2023Flash FloodKevil$700,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindKevil$25,000Winds were estimated near 60 mph. An old, rusty grain elevator was bent in half. Two silos received minor damage. Some trees were blown down. A tree fell on a garage.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindKevil$20,000One small farm building was overturned, and the side walls of an equipment shed were blown in approximately a foot. Several large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindKevil$20,000A garage collapsed. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. At least one road was closed.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindKevil$10,000A trailer was damaged by severe thunderstorm wind gusts. This storm produced a tornado that formed along the Ballard/McCracken County line just east of Kevil.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindKevil$5,000Trees were down.
May 2018Flash FloodKevil$5,000Highway 60 was nearly impassable, with numerous vehicles in ditches. Rainfall of 1.74 inches in one hour fell across the county line at the NWS office in West Paducah.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindKevil$5,000There was minor shingle damage to houses in a subdivision.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindKevil$4,000Trees were uprooted. Large tree limbs were down.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindKevil$3,000A tree was blown down over a roadway near the community of New York, which is on Highway 286 west of Gage. Another tree was blown onto a roadway at LaCenter.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindKevil$3,000Power lines were down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindKevil$2,000Two trees were blown down on a rural road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindKevil$1,000Shingles were blown off a house, and small to medium-size tree limbs were down.
May 2024FloodKevil-Minor street flooding occurred in Kevil following roughly an inch of rain in an hour.
May 2017HailKevil-The hailstones ranged from nickel size to a few golf ball size stones.
April 2017Flash FloodKevil-A trained spotter near La Center reported some roads were underwater, and ponds and creeks were overflowing.
March 2015Heavy RainKevil-Water was over Highway 725 near the McCracken County line.
April 2010Heavy RainKevil-Nearly one and three-quarters inch of rain fell within one hour. Near the McCracken County line, Kentucky 358 was covered with about an inch of flowing water for about 50 yards.
August 2009Heavy RainKevil-Rainfall of 0.70 inch was measured in 15 minutes.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindKevil-An off-duty meteorologist estimated winds gusted to 60 mph.
May 2006HailKevil-Hail up to golf ball size in the Kevil area quickly tapered down to dime size.
October 2004Thunderstorm WindKevil-An off-duty meteorologist estimated a wind gust near 60 MPH. A tree was blown down across a road just northwest of Kevil.
May 2018HailKevil-no account filed
May 2017HailKevil-no account filed
April 2011HailKevil-no account filed
June 2011HailKevil-no account filed
April 2006HailKevil-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ballard 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
Ingleside2.8 miles16
Ceredo3.2 miles16
Hinkleville3.8 miles16
La Center4.6 miles16
Bandana5.3 miles17
Gage6.5 miles10
Slater7.2 miles16
Needmore7.4 miles17

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 KevilAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2510338The 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 495707. 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.