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Kenney, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Bellville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77418. The Survey maps it on the Kenney quadrangle. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

Kenney within Austin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

29 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Kenney between 2006 and 2019, burning about 160 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning19
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
8 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceILLEGAL BURN
28 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ NEUMANN
14 August 2011Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ GLAZEAR
30 July 2009Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ NORTH HWY 36
21 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTEGELER
2 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
10 June 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE/ KENNY HALL
31 May 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBELLVILLE / ROCKY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Austin County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenney in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
August 2004Thunderstorm WindKenney$10,000Trees down.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindKenney$5,000Trees blown down blocking area roads.
January 2024HailKenney-Pea to penny sized hail was observed on Highway 36 just south of Kenney.
May 2019HailKenney-Half dollar sized hail was reported from MPING.
May 2015Flash FloodKenney-Several roads were closed and impassable between Bellville and Chappell Hill.

Every storm recorded in Austin 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
New Wehdem2.0 miles10
Sempronius (historical)2.9 miles10
Wehdem3.6 miles10
Nelsonville6.4 miles10
Buckhorn6.8 miles8
Bleiblerville7.0 miles10
Bellville7.7 miles9
Welcome8.7 miles10

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 KenneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6390889The 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 1339040. 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.