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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.

Kinderhook within Pike County

Population over time

2 figures

Kinderhook 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.

YearPeople Change
2010216
2020189-27 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

80 words on this township

With 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.

Read the whole chapter on Kinderhook Township.

Fires near this place

20 since 2009

Regional 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning4

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
17 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources369
10 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources276
1 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources5012015
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources902992
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources203
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources204
27 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources199
1 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources112249

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Barry Plant No. 8, DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Kinderhook Pit No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

6 since 2005

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindKinderhook-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 2006Thunderstorm WindKinderhook-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 2005Thunderstorm WindKinderhook-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 2011HailKinderhook-no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindKinderhook-no account filed
July 2006HailKinderhook-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Shinn1.9 miles14
Hull2.9 miles14
New Canton5.5 miles14
Spencer6.0 miles17
Barry6.1 miles14
Seehorn6.8 miles19
Aladdin9.1 miles17
Hadley9.6 miles12

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 KinderhookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2510197The 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.