Kenefick, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Liberty-Dayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77535. The Survey maps it on the Liberty quadrangle. 615 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 66 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKenefick grew from 563 to 615 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 | 563 | |
| 2020 | 615 | +52 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1943 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
39 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Kenefick between 1996 and 2011, burning about 270 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH FIRE |
| 1 August 2009 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 8 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODS FIRE |
| 26 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH FIRE |
| 25 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODS FIRE |
| 19 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TREE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenefick in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Kenefick | $400,000 | Numerous roads and bridges under water. Damage estimated. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenefick | $65,000 | Tree down on a home. |
| June 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Kenefick | $15,000 | A brief tornado downed trees that caused minor damage to a home, its carport and garage. |
| October 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Kenefick | $15,000 | Trees blown down and minor roof damage. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenefick | $10,000 | Trees and power lines down. |
| May 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Kenefick | $5,000 | Tornado near Kenefick downed trees that blocked some streets on FM 1008. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Kenefick | $5,000 | Golf ball sized hail occurred with a severe thunderstorm in the Kenefick area. |
| March 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenefick | - | The top of trees were snapped off. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenefick | - | A severe thunderstorm caused wind damage near the intersection of FM 1008 and FM 2331 west of Dayton Lakes. |
| November 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenefick | - | Trees down along two mile stretch north of Dayton along route 321. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fullerton | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Winter Valley Estates | 2.0 miles | 12 | |
| Dayton Lakes | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Champ d'Asile (historical) | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Martha | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Simmons Bottom | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Dayton | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Sandune | 4.6 miles | 13 |
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 Kenefick | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q786717 | 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 1378522. 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.






