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Kentland, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47951. The Survey maps it on the Kentland quadrangle. 1,641 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

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Kentland within Newton County

On record in Kentland

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Kentland fell from 1,748 to 1,641 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
20101,748
20201,641-107 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

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 Kentland: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Sulfur, 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
Newton County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sphalerite and Galena Occurence Z84Zinc, Lead, SulfurOccurrenceGalena, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kentland in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 16 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 2010LightningKentland$100,000Lightning struck a barn and fire destroyed it.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindKentland$5,000A barn was damaged and extensive tree damage was reported.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindKentland$2,000Several trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindKentland$1,000One utility pole was blown down.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindKentland$1,000Tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindKentland-Thirteen utility poles were snapped or blown over along Route 24.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindKentland-A large tree limb was blown down.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindKentland-Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. Trees and tree limbs were blown down.
July 2015Flash FloodKentland-Newton County Sheriff reported that there was flooding across much of southern Newton County, mainly south of the Iroquois River, including Kentland.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindKentland-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph in Kentland.
July 2011Tornado (EF0)Kentland-A brief tornado touched down near 1300 S and Route 41. No damage was reported.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindKentland-A tree and tree limbs were blown down. Corn crops were also damaged.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindKentland-Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
September 2006FloodKentland-Water five inches deep was reported along US 41 between Kirkland and County Line Roads. Storm total rainfall of 4.11 inches was measured in Kentland.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindKentland-A shed was blown down in Kentland, trees and power lines were blown down in Brook and tree limbs were blown down along State Road 114.
May 2004HailKentland-Reported on the west side of Kentland.
May 2004HailKentland-Hail damaged a spotter's vehicle.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Kentland-The tornado began at a quarry about 3 miles east of Kentland, on US 24, just west of Meridian Road. It continued moving east northeast for about 2 1/2 miles. At the quarry, an antenna was blown down, windows and garage doors were blown out at a building. Another metal building had the west wall pushed in and part of the roof peeled off. An empty hopper railroad car was pushed about 50 yards down the track. At the east end of the quarry, along Meridian Road, a fence was ripped up and thrown across the road and into a field. Two power poles were snapped. Grain bins were destroyed near County Road 100 East on US 24.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindKentland-Large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindKentland-Three inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
September 2000HailKentland-Reported by County Sheriff.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindKentland-no account filed
August 2018HailKentland-no account filed
September 2013HailKentland-no account filed
May 2012HailKentland-no account filed
June 2011HailKentland-no account filed
March 2006HailKentland-no account filed
April 2003HailKentland-no account filed
July 2003HailKentland-no account filed
June 2001Flash FloodKentland-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindKentland-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindKentland-no account filed
July 1994HailKentland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Newton3.1 miles9
Effner4.2 miles13
Perkins4.4 miles9
Ade6.8 miles9
Brook7.9 miles9
Goodland8.1 miles9
Percy Junction8.3 miles9
Beaver City9.6 miles8

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 KentlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1916654The 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 437256. 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.