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.
Population over time
2 figuresKevil 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 376 | |
| 2020 | 595 | +219 (+58%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 16 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.
- 1928 USGS La Center quadrangle1:62500
- 1932 USGS La Center quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS La Center quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS La Center quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
10 since 1999Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 1 December 1999 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 November 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 November 2008 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 October 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BIG BLUESTEM |
| 3 October 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 October 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 October 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | TORTORELLI |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kevil | 2 hurt, $25,000 | At 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 2023 | Flash Flood | Kevil | $700,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kevil | $25,000 | Winds 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kevil | $20,000 | One 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kevil | $20,000 | A garage collapsed. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. At least one road was closed. |
| January 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kevil | $10,000 | A 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kevil | $5,000 | Trees were down. |
| May 2018 | Flash Flood | Kevil | $5,000 | Highway 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kevil | $5,000 | There was minor shingle damage to houses in a subdivision. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kevil | $4,000 | Trees were uprooted. Large tree limbs were down. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kevil | $3,000 | A 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kevil | $3,000 | Power lines were down. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kevil | $2,000 | Two trees were blown down on a rural road. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kevil | $1,000 | Shingles were blown off a house, and small to medium-size tree limbs were down. |
| May 2024 | Flood | Kevil | - | Minor street flooding occurred in Kevil following roughly an inch of rain in an hour. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Kevil | - | The hailstones ranged from nickel size to a few golf ball size stones. |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Kevil | - | A trained spotter near La Center reported some roads were underwater, and ponds and creeks were overflowing. |
| March 2015 | Heavy Rain | Kevil | - | Water was over Highway 725 near the McCracken County line. |
| April 2010 | Heavy Rain | Kevil | - | 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 2009 | Heavy Rain | Kevil | - | Rainfall of 0.70 inch was measured in 15 minutes. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kevil | - | An off-duty meteorologist estimated winds gusted to 60 mph. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Kevil | - | Hail up to golf ball size in the Kevil area quickly tapered down to dime size. |
| October 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kevil | - | An off-duty meteorologist estimated a wind gust near 60 MPH. A tree was blown down across a road just northwest of Kevil. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Kevil | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Kevil | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Kevil | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Kevil | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Kevil | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Kevil | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2510338 | 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 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.











