Kinross, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52335. The Survey maps it on the Kinross quadrangle. 80 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 823 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKinross grew from 73 to 80 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 73 | |
| 2020 | 80 | +7 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Kinross quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Muscatine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Kinross between 2009 and 2014, burning about 44 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 00 AVE. AND 335TH ST. NORTH ENGLISH, IA |
| 5 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 4.5 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 29271 170TH STREET, IOWA SOUTH ENGLISH, IOWA |
| 19 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kinross in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinross | $100,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph partially ripped the roof off of a hog confinement building, damaged a grain bin, and snapped several trees along Highway 22 just east of Kinross, IA around 2 am CDT August 3. |
| April 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Kinross | $90,000 | An F0 tornado tracked from southwest of Kinross into the community. The public also reported several funnel clouds near the tornado. The tornado damaged farm out buildings. In Kinross, several house were damaged significantly, and many others had roof and siding damage. A shed housing two cars was also destroyed. There was substantial damage to trees and an orchard in the town. There were no injuries. |
| June 2007 | Lightning | Kinross | $25,000 | Lightning struck a house, traveled through the wiring, and ignited a fire in the basement of a house. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinross | $1,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph blew the doors of a machine shed in and downed numerous tree limbs about 3 miles north northwest of Kinross, IA at 822 pm CDT June 29. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinross | $1,000 | Tree down west of town |
| October 2018 | Flash Flood | Kinross | - | The Iowa DOT closed Highway 21 in What Cheer due to flooding from Coal Creek. The water over the road was a foot deep, resulting in a detour. The water receded enough for one lane to be reopened around 445 AM CST. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinross | - | A trained spotter reported 6 inch diameter limbs down. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinross | - | Wind gusts estimated to be over 60 mph were observed 3 miles north northwest of Kinross, IA at 822 pm CDT June 29. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creswell (historical) | 3.4 miles | 7 | |
| South English | 5.5 miles | 7 | |
| Keota | 6.9 miles | 7 | |
| Harper | 7.6 miles | 7 | |
| Webster | 9.8 miles | 7 | |
| Talleyrand | 11.5 miles | 7 | |
| Keswick | 13.4 miles | 7 | |
| Aurora | 13.6 miles | 7 |
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 Kinross | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1928670 | The 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 458099. 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.




