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Kemp, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cedar Creek Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75143. The Survey maps it on the Kemp quadrangle. 1,129 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Kemp within Kaufman County

Population over time

3 figures

Kemp fell from 1,133 to 1,129 between 2000 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
20001,133
20101,154+21 (+2%)
20201,129-25 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

169 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Kemp between 2005 and 2020, burning about 739 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined74
Debris and open burning54
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking10
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
5 September 2011Smoking40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJIBA
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAIRY QUEEN
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-388
29 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4031
25 September 2005Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman County

Storms near this place

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kemp in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 3 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2009Thunderstorm WindKemp$100,000Straight line winds blew out windows on 6 cars at the Kemp ISD Administration Building, damaged buildings and downed power poles and large trees up to 4 feet in diameter. Several large trees were snapped at the cemetery. At Kemp High School, the air conditioning units on the roof were damaged and the ceiling was torn off the band hall. The power was knocked out in several places in Kemp.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindKemp$50,000Roof damage occurred at several schools. Trees were also blown down in the area.
March 1997Thunderstorm WindKemp$50,000no account filed
April 2024Thunderstorm WindKemp$25,000Emergency management reported several trees down near the city of Becker, including one that fell on a house.
January 1995Thunderstorm WindKemp$15,000,,,,,,,,Hail (0.88) Several roofs were damaged by high winds.
January 1995Thunderstorm WindKemp$15,000,,,,,,,,Hail (0.88) High winds caused roof damage to several homes.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindKemp$10,000A barn was damaged by high winds, a mobile home was partially moved from its foundation, and power lines were blown down.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindKemp$8,000no account filed
October 2014Thunderstorm WindKemp$5,000Emergency management reported power lines and some power poles down across roads.
April 2006HailKemp$5,000Golf ball-size hail reported in town.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindKemp$5,000High thunderstorm winds caused damage to the roofs of a few homes. Trees were blown down onto cars and mobile homes. Other trees and power lines were also blown down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindKemp$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down, and a storage shed was unroofed.
October 1994Thunderstorm WindKemp$5,000Power lines were blown down by high winds.
July 2007Flash FloodKemp$2,000Several roads east of Kemp were flooded and closed.
August 2022Flash FloodKemp-Amateur radio reported that Cedar Creek is out of its banks and flowing over FM 4017 in Kaufman County, TX.
May 2010HailKemp-Kemp Public Schools reported quarter sized hail along Highway 175.
March 2007Flash FloodKemp-Highway 279, CR 4044 and CR 4042 were closed and barricaded. Numerous high water rescues were required.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindKemp-Large tree limbs were blown down by high winds.
April 1995HailKemp-A barn was damaged by high winds, a mobile home was partially moved from its foundation, and power lines were blown down.
October 1994HailKemp-Several Farm-to-Market roads were flooded.
May 2024HailKemp-no account filed
August 2001HailKemp-no account filed
January 1999HailKemp-no account filed
May 1999HailKemp-no account filed
May 1999HailKemp-no account filed
May 1999HailKemp-no account filed
May 1998HailKemp-no account filed
June 1996HailKemp-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindKemp-no account filed
April 1995HailKemp-no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindKemp-no account filed
May 1994Thunderstorm WindKemp-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kaufman 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
Becker3.7 miles13
Stubbs3.9 miles10
Tolosa5.0 miles12
Lively5.4 miles10
Jiba5.6 miles10
Grays Prairie6.6 miles10
Prairieville7.2 miles11
Rand7.2 miles10

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 KempAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970351The 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 1339022. 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.