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.
Population over time
2 figuresKenedy 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,296 | |
| 2020 | 3,473 | +177 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Karnes City quadrangle1:62500
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Kenedy quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Goliad quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
97 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 37 |
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 23 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 25 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TXDOT TX72/TX239 |
| 1 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CRYSTAL FUDGE |
| 1 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | KARNES COUNTY CR344 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person Sulfur Plant | Sulfur | Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenedy | $2,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 50 mph which knocked down large tree limbs in Panna Maria and Kenedy. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenedy | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gust measured at 50 kts by the AWOS at Kenedy Regional Airport. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Kenedy | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing several roads in and around Kenedy. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Kenedy | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Vehicles were stranded in flood water in and around Kenedy. |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Kenedy | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Hwy 72 west of Kenedy and Hwy 181 at the Bee County line. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Kenedy | - | 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 2004 | Tornado (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 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Kenedy | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Kenedy | - | no account filed |
| December 2006 | Hail | Kenedy | - | no account filed |
| November 2004 | Hail | Kenedy | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Kenedy | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Kenedy | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Kenedy | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Kenedy | - | 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 Kenedy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q978029 | 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 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.





