Kennard, Indiana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greensboro Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47351. It stands on Mont Branch. The Survey maps it on the Shirley quadrangle. 451 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,040 feet above sea level.

Kennard within Henry County

Population over time

2 figures

Kennard fell from 471 to 451 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	471
2020	451	-20 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

3,249 words on this township

History of Henry County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns ... Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of Pre-historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History., published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Greensboro Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Greensboro Township was named afcer a Horth Carolina town from which many of the old settlers of this locality came. The township was founded Sept. 7, 1831, and then included all that part of the territory of Henry Township west of the range line dividing townships 9 and 10." Thus it was seven miles from east to west and six from north to south. In 1838 the northern part of Greensboro was given to Harrison, and an addition of four square miles made to Greensboro from Wayne and Franklin townships.

Passage source: History of Henry County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns ... Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of Pre-historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History., published 1884.

William Saint was born in Wayne County, Ind., Hov. 29, 1828. Plis parents, William and Achsah^aint, were natives of Horth Carolina, and were married in their native State in 1807, and in 1816 moved to Indiana and settled near the present site of Germantown. In 1836 they moved o Henr C ( i ut} snc ^eitld on the farm now owned by our subject, where the mother died Hov. 29, 1839, aged fifty-three years, and the father, Jan. 24, 1871, aged ninety years. Daniel Saint, great-grandfather of our sub^ ject, was a native of France and moved to Wales. His son, Hercules Saint, came from there to the United States, and settled near^ Philadelphia. William Saint, our subject, was reared on his father's farm, receiving his education in the district schools, attending in the winter when the weather would not admit of his working. Since twenty years of age he has devoted his time to agriculture, and now owns a fine farm. He was married in 1849 to Mary A., daughter of John and Mary Elliott, of Wayne County. She died Aug. 16, 1851, leaving one child - Hettie S., wife of M. J. Kennard, of Omaha, Neb. In 1853 Mr. Saint married Mary A., daughter of James and Henry JcJinson, of Spiceland'. They have had three children; but one is living - Manta S., wife of W. S. Mofiitt. Mira and Alice are deceased. Politically Mr. Saint is

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 Greensboro Township.

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 Kennard: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Fred Goodier Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	James L. Craig Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kennard in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Kennard	$50,000	Multiple trees, power poles and lines downed in Henry County from thunderstorm winds, with this damage focused from Shirley to Kennard.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Kennard	$8,500	Multiple trees were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. One of the trees may have been downed on a house.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Kennard	$1,000	Damaging thunderstorm winds caused trees to be uprooted and power lines to be down.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Kennard	$1,000	A large tree and power lines were downed.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Kennard	-	A trained spotter estimated a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 MPH in Kennard.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Kennard	-	Large tree limb down.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Kennard	-	2 Foot diameter tree down.
June 2001	Hail	Kennard	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Kennard	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Woodville	1.6 miles	8
Grant City	2.9 miles	9
Mount Lawn	3.1 miles	11
Greensboro	3.5 miles	11
Cadiz	3.7 miles	11
Maple Valley	4.4 miles	9
Stone Quarry Mills	4.5 miles	10
Westwood	5.5 miles	11

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 Kennard	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2105471	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 437241. 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.

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.