The story
Read it all →How Kenefic came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Kenefic.
At the time of its founding Kenefic was located in Blue County, Choctaw Nation.
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History · Kenefic
Kenefic’s post office opened in 1910, and 13% of its homes were built before 1940
Below: maps from 1899 on and the census since 1920.
1910first post office
0on the National Register
13%homes built before 1940
Quick answers
How Kenefic began
When was Kenefic founded?
1910
The Kenefic post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name.
First census: 413 in 19202020 census: 147116 years
Founding year: the first Kenefic post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
What stands out about Kenefic’s past
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Kenefic’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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Kenefic on the map, 1899 to 1985
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Kenefic. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1899Atoka sheet · 1:125,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Kenefic.
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Kenefic, census by census
Between 115 and 413 people in every census since 1920.
11 censuses, 1920–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Kenefic’s Wikipedia page.
Famous people
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Ralph FaudreeAmerican mathematician, the provost of the Univ… · b. 1939
Questions about Kenefic’s history
What year was Kenefic founded?
The Kenefic post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.