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Kenedy, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kenedy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78119. It stands on Nichols Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kenedy quadrangle. 3,473 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 266 feet above sea level.

Kenedy within Karnes County

Population over time

2 figures

Kenedy grew from 3,296 to 3,473 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
20103,296
20203,473+177 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

97 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Kenedy between 2005 and 2019, burning about 368 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined37
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use23
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2008Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTXDOT TX72/TX239
1 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRYSTAL FUDGE
1 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKARNES COUNTY CR344

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Karnes County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kenedy: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Person Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Karnes County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenedy in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 5 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 funnel cloud, 2 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindKenedy$2,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph which knocked down large tree limbs in Panna Maria and Kenedy.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindKenedy-A thunderstorm produced wind gust measured at 50 kts by the AWOS at Kenedy Regional Airport.
July 2021Flash FloodKenedy-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing several roads in and around Kenedy.
July 2021Flash FloodKenedy-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Vehicles were stranded in flood water in and around Kenedy.
May 2013Flash FloodKenedy-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Hwy 72 west of Kenedy and Hwy 181 at the Bee County line.
July 2007Flash FloodKenedy-Thunderstorms produced a general 1 to 2 inch rainfall over Karnes County, with up to 4 inches southwest of Kenedy. FM99 and SH72 were closed due to flash flooding through the early afternoon.
November 2004Tornado (F0)Kenedy-The Karnes County Sheriff's Department reported that a small tornado had touched down briefly in Kenedy in an open area. It lifted and dissipated quickly, causing no damage. The tornado was rated F0 on the Fujita Scale.
May 2006Funnel CloudKenedy-no account filed
May 2006HailKenedy-no account filed
December 2006HailKenedy-no account filed
November 2004HailKenedy-no account filed
May 2002HailKenedy-no account filed
February 1998HailKenedy-no account filed
June 1997Funnel CloudKenedy-no account filed
June 1997Funnel CloudKenedy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Karnes 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
Karnes City5.3 miles9
Green5.7 miles9
Couch6.3 miles7
Choate6.7 miles7
Bainville6.8 miles10
Lenz7.1 miles8
Mayo7.1 miles9
Runge8.4 miles7

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 KenedyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978029The 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 1360572. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.