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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.

Kennard within Houston County

Population over time

3 figures

Kennard 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.

YearPeople Change
2000317
2010337+20 (+6%)
2020272-65 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

91 since 1993

Regional 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 burning24
Arson/incendiarism16
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
30 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In Texasnot named
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7119
20 September 2018Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasHORSECAMP 2
20 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasHORSECAMP
19 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasSAWMILL #2
13 September 1993Naturalunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In Texasnot named
10 September 2000Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasCARDINAL
6 August 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasSAWMILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

20 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2019Tornado (EF1)Kennard4 hurt, $300,000The 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 2000HailKennard$50,000no account filed
March 2017Thunderstorm WindKennard$10,000Trees were downed to the southwest and west of Kennard in the vicinity of FM 2781 and Highway 7.
May 2004HailKennard$10,0001.75 inch hail.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindKennard$10,000Trees down in the Davy Crockett National Forest.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindKennard$8,000Severe 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 2002HailKennard$7,0000.75 inch hail.
April 2017HailKennard$5,000Golf ball sized hail was reported.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindKennard$5,000Trees blown down in the Kennard and Lake Ratcliff areas.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindKennard$5,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindKennard$3,000Trees blown down.
April 2019HailKennard$2,000Golf ball sized hail was reported.
April 2014HailKennard$1,500Quarter to ping pong sized hail caused some minor damage to the windshield of a car.
April 1993HailKennard$500A spotter reported 0.7-inch hail 6 miles west of Kennard.
March 2025HailKennard-The Houston County emergency manager, local fire marshal and broadcast media confirmed hail in Kennard.
April 2021HailKennard-Quarter sized hail was reported.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindKennard-Numerous trees were downed in severe thunderstorm winds near the town of Kennard.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindKennard-Numerous trees were downed and a barn was damaged.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindKennard-Large trees were downed and partially blocking road in the town of Kennard.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Kennard-F0 tornado with no damage.

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Allen Chapel1.9 miles10
Colthorp2.0 miles10
Ratcliff3.2 miles11
Fog Town3.3 miles10
Harrison Town3.6 miles11
Center Hill3.7 miles11
Tadmor4.8 miles11
Stubblefield5.0 miles11

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 KennardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q478554The 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.