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History · Kenneth

Kenneth’s post office opened in 1900, and 50% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Kenneth School.

1900first post office
1on the National Register
50%homes built before 1940
Quick answers

How Kenneth began

When was Kenneth founded?

1900

The Kenneth post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 60126 years
Founding year: the first Kenneth post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
On the National Register

1 historic place in Kenneth

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1980
Kenneth School
All 1 listings

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Places now gone

Kenneth’s post office has been open since 1900.

Gone or out of use
Kennethlocale

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Questions about Kenneth’s history

What year was Kenneth founded?

The Kenneth post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Kenneth?

One place: the Kenneth School (listed 1980).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the National Register of Historic Places (1), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.