Kinderhook, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Kinderhook Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62345. The Survey maps it on the Hull quadrangle. 189 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 486 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKinderhook fell from 216 to 189 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 | 216 | |
| 2020 | 189 | -27 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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.
- 1931 USGS Barry quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Barry quadrangle1:48000
- 1936 USGS Barry quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Barry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Hull quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Hull quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
80 words on this townshipWith The Colors in Pike County, Illinois, published 1920 names this settlement in its chapter on Kinderhook Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The Kinderhook Branch of the Pike County Chapter, American Red Cross, was organized July 17, 1917, with R. T. Piper as chairman; Mrs. Echo Pearson, secretary; Mrs. Carrie Gose, vice-chairman; Mrs. Gertrude Hinds, treasurer. For the year 1918-19 G. E. Preble was elected chairman and Mrs. Jennie McCarrel secretary.
Passage source: With The Colors in Pike County, Illinois, published 1920.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
20 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Kinderhook between 2009 and 2019, burning about 247 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 | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 369 |
| 10 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 276 |
| 1 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 5012015 |
| 3 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 902992 |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 203 |
| 28 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 204 |
| 27 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 199 |
| 1 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 112249 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kinderhook: 1 plant, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barry Plant No. 8, Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Kinderhook Pit No. 2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kinderhook in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2012: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinderhook | - | Thunderstorm winds caused minor roof and door damage to a machine shed 5 miles south of Hull. Also, numerous small tree limbs and several power lines were blown down. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinderhook | - | Several trees, large tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Kinderhook. One tree fell onto a mobile home but only caused minor damage. No injuries were reported. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinderhook | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts caused scattered wind damage across Kinderhook. One home lost a quarter of its roof, several sheds and outbuildings were destroyed, and numerous trees were downed. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Kinderhook | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinderhook | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Kinderhook | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Kinderhook | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2510197 | 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 411481. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.








