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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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
Newton County Courthouselisted 2008
Population over time
2 figuresKentland 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,748 | |
| 2020 | 1,641 | -107 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Kentland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newton County Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Sphalerite and Galena Occurence Z84 | Zinc, Lead, Sulfur | Occurrence | Galena, Sphalerite |
Storms near this place
33 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Lightning | Kentland | $100,000 | Lightning struck a barn and fire destroyed it. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kentland | $5,000 | A barn was damaged and extensive tree damage was reported. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kentland | $2,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kentland | $1,000 | One utility pole was blown down. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kentland | $1,000 | Tree limbs and power lines were blown down. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kentland | - | Thirteen utility poles were snapped or blown over along Route 24. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kentland | - | A large tree limb was blown down. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kentland | - | Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. Trees and tree limbs were blown down. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Kentland | - | Newton County Sheriff reported that there was flooding across much of southern Newton County, mainly south of the Iroquois River, including Kentland. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kentland | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph in Kentland. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Kentland | - | A brief tornado touched down near 1300 S and Route 41. No damage was reported. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kentland | - | A tree and tree limbs were blown down. Corn crops were also damaged. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kentland | - | Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. |
| September 2006 | Flood | Kentland | - | 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kentland | - | 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 2004 | Hail | Kentland | - | Reported on the west side of Kentland. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Kentland | - | Hail damaged a spotter's vehicle. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (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 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kentland | - | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kentland | - | Three inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| September 2000 | Hail | Kentland | - | Reported by County Sheriff. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kentland | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Kentland | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Kentland | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Kentland | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Kentland | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Kentland | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Kentland | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Kentland | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Flash Flood | Kentland | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kentland | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kentland | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Kentland | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newton | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Effner | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Perkins | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Ade | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| Brook | 7.9 miles | 9 | |
| Goodland | 8.1 miles | 9 | |
| Percy Junction | 8.3 miles | 9 | |
| Beaver City | 9.6 miles | 8 |
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 Kentland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1916654 | 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 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.





