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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.

Kenefick within Liberty County

Population over time

2 figures

Kenefick 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.

YearPeople Change
2010563
2020615+52 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

39 since 1996

Regional 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
21 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2009Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
1 August 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE
26 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
25 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE
19 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTREE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2016Flash FloodKenefick$400,000Numerous roads and bridges under water. Damage estimated.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindKenefick$65,000Tree down on a home.
June 2014Tornado (EF0)Kenefick$15,000A brief tornado downed trees that caused minor damage to a home, its carport and garage.
October 1997Tornado (F0)Kenefick$15,000Trees blown down and minor roof damage.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindKenefick$10,000Trees and power lines down.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Kenefick$5,000Tornado near Kenefick downed trees that blocked some streets on FM 1008.
May 2010HailKenefick$5,000Golf ball sized hail occurred with a severe thunderstorm in the Kenefick area.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindKenefick-The top of trees were snapped off.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindKenefick-A severe thunderstorm caused wind damage near the intersection of FM 1008 and FM 2331 west of Dayton Lakes.
November 2011Thunderstorm WindKenefick-Trees down along two mile stretch north of Dayton along route 321.

Every storm recorded in Liberty 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
Fullerton1.7 miles13
Winter Valley Estates2.0 miles12
Dayton Lakes3.1 miles12
Champ d'Asile (historical)3.2 miles13
Martha3.5 miles13
Simmons Bottom3.6 miles12
Dayton4.5 miles13
Sandune4.6 miles13

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 KenefickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q786717The 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.