Kafr Al-Maa

Kafr Al-Maa (Arabic: كفر الماء )is one of the Al-Kourah District towns, in the province of Irbid, Jordan, and away from the Irbid city district center 28 km to the south-west, and the capital, Amman, about 81 km in the north-west direction. It had a population of 17919 in 2015.
Location.
Kafr Al-Maa is located south of Der Abi Saeed, north of Kufr Rakeb.
History.
In 1596 it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named as " Kafr Alma", situated in the "nahiya" (subdistrict) of Kura, part of the "Sanjak" of Ajlun. It had 45 households and 10 bachelors; all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products; including wheat, barley, olive trees/vineyards/fruit trees, goats and bee-hives; in addition to occasional revenues. The total tax was 10,000 akçe.
In 1838 Kafr Al-Maa's inhabitants were noted as being predominantly Sunni Muslims.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,517 inhabitants in "Kufr Ma".