The town was named after Thomas Kevin, superintendent of the Alberta Railway & Irrigation Company.
It is overlooked by the Irrigation Company of Upper Region.
In 1894, Fort Craig was sold at auction to the only bidder, the Valverde Land and Irrigation Company.
The Three Sisters Irrigation Company and its successors owned and managed the project, under the provisions of the Carey Act.
Whipple ran the successful Owyhee Land and Irrigation Company.
It was built around 1908 and is owned by Farmers Reservoir and Irrigation Company.
The first irrigation canal was completed in 1893 by the Prosser Falls Land and Irrigation Company.
These investors formed the San Felipe Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Irrigation Company in 1868.
He later served as president of a successor company, the Pecos Valley Land and Irrigation Company.
He subsequently founded the Sundays River Land and Irrigation Company as well as the village of Bayville.
