Kennard, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Kennard-Ratcliff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75847. It stands on Brice Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Kennard quadrangle. 272 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 361 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresKennard fell from 317 to 272 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 317 | |
| 2010 | 337 | +20 (+6%) |
| 2020 | 272 | -65 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1951 USGS Kennard quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2004 USGS Kennard quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
91 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Kennard between 1993 and 2020, burning about 863 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 16 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 | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | not named |
| 26 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7119 |
| 20 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | HORSECAMP 2 |
| 20 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | HORSECAMP |
| 19 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | SAWMILL #2 |
| 13 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | not named |
| 10 September 2000 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | CARDINAL |
| 6 August 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | SAWMILL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kennard in 20 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 9 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Kennard | 4 hurt, $300,000 | The survey discovered tornado damage with trees either uprooted or snapped along a path parallel to County Road 1170. A double wide trailer was destroyed and pushed back into a wooded area at the end of the tornado path. The four occupants of the trailer were injured. Damage scar apparent on satellite data. Aerial photographs also help define path. |
| March 2000 | Hail | Kennard | $50,000 | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennard | $10,000 | Trees were downed to the southwest and west of Kennard in the vicinity of FM 2781 and Highway 7. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Kennard | $10,000 | 1.75 inch hail. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennard | $10,000 | Trees down in the Davy Crockett National Forest. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennard | $8,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds downed a tree and power line on top of a vehicle in the town of Ratcliff within the Davy Crockett National Forest. |
| December 2002 | Hail | Kennard | $7,000 | 0.75 inch hail. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Kennard | $5,000 | Golf ball sized hail was reported. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennard | $5,000 | Trees blown down in the Kennard and Lake Ratcliff areas. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennard | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennard | $3,000 | Trees blown down. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Kennard | $2,000 | Golf ball sized hail was reported. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Kennard | $1,500 | Quarter to ping pong sized hail caused some minor damage to the windshield of a car. |
| April 1993 | Hail | Kennard | $500 | A spotter reported 0.7-inch hail 6 miles west of Kennard. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Kennard | - | The Houston County emergency manager, local fire marshal and broadcast media confirmed hail in Kennard. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Kennard | - | Quarter sized hail was reported. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennard | - | Numerous trees were downed in severe thunderstorm winds near the town of Kennard. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennard | - | Numerous trees were downed and a barn was damaged. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennard | - | Large trees were downed and partially blocking road in the town of Kennard. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Kennard | - | F0 tornado with no damage. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allen Chapel | 1.9 miles | 10 | |
| Colthorp | 2.0 miles | 10 | |
| Ratcliff | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Fog Town | 3.3 miles | 10 | |
| Harrison Town | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Center Hill | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Tadmor | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Stubblefield | 5.0 miles | 11 |
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 Kennard | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q478554 | 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 1360574. 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.





