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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.

Kinross within Keokuk County

Population over time

2 figures

Kinross 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.

YearPeople Change
201073
202080+7 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 2009

Regional 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources00 AVE. AND 335TH ST. NORTH ENGLISH, IA
5 April 2014Debris and open burning4.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources29271 170TH STREET, IOWA SOUTH ENGLISH, IOWA
19 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Keokuk County

Storms near this place

8 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2010Thunderstorm WindKinross$100,000Wind 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 2001Tornado (F0)Kinross$90,000An 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 2007LightningKinross$25,000Lightning struck a house, traveled through the wiring, and ignited a fire in the basement of a house.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindKinross$1,000Wind 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 2005Thunderstorm WindKinross$1,000Tree down west of town
October 2018Flash FloodKinross-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 2013Thunderstorm WindKinross-A trained spotter reported 6 inch diameter limbs down.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindKinross-Wind gusts estimated to be over 60 mph were observed 3 miles north northwest of Kinross, IA at 822 pm CDT June 29.

Every storm recorded in Keokuk County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Creswell (historical)3.4 miles7
South English5.5 miles7
Keota6.9 miles7
Harper7.6 miles7
Webster9.8 miles7
Talleyrand11.5 miles7
Keswick13.4 miles7
Aurora13.6 miles7

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 KinrossAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1928670The 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.