BlockBefore

Kandiyohi, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Kandiyohi City. It lies in ZIP code area 56251. The Survey maps it on the Spicer quadrangle. 569 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,224 feet above sea level.

Kandiyohi within Kandiyohi County

On record in Kandiyohi

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

Kandiyohi grew from 491 to 569 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
2010491
2020569+78 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Kandiyohi between 2000 and 2013, burning about 55 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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
28 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2013Debris and open burning28 acresLitchfield Wetland Management DistrictUNCLE MATT WF
20 October 2000Equipment and vehicle use15 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kandiyohi County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kandiyohi: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Olson Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kandiyohi County

Storms near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kandiyohi in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 7 hail, 6 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
June 2012Thunderstorm WindKandiyohi$250,000A line of severe straight-line winds, estimated over 75 mph, occurred north of Kandiyohi, then southeast to the city of Atwater. Numerous trees were uprooted, several barns were damaged or destroyed, windows were blown out in several communities, and power was out for several hours.
June 2017Tornado (EF1)Kandiyohi$200,000A tornado was associated with a quasi-linear storm complex. It mostly hit trees and crops, but during the latter half of its path, the tornado did move across or just south of a couple metal farm buildings, causing heavy damage.
May 2022HailKandiyohi-There was a social media picture of 3 inch hail.
May 2022HailKandiyohi-There was a social media picture of 3 inch hail.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Kandiyohi-This was the first of five tornadoes from one supercell in Kandiyohi County, all of which were videotaped by a storm chaser. This first tornado touched down briefly in an open field.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Kandiyohi-The second of five tornadoes touched down in an open field.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Kandiyohi-The third tornado in a series also touched down in an open field. A few trees downed.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Kandiyohi-The fourth tornado was another brief touchdown in an open field.
June 2003Tornado (F1)Kandiyohi-The fifth and final tornado from the same supercell moved straight north for two miles, then turned and moved from east to west for one mile as it roped out. During its northward trek, it damaged three farmsteads, knocking down sheds, outbuildings and trees. While traveling west, it moved across corn and bean fields.
June 2001HailKandiyohi-This was the last severe report from the mesocyclone that began in Swift County and produced nine tornadoes from the Danvers area to 1 NW Willmar.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindKandiyohi-Several buildings were destroyed by strong downburst winds.
May 2022HailKandiyohi-no account filed
June 2017HailKandiyohi-no account filed
July 2003HailKandiyohi-no account filed
May 1996LightningKandiyohi-no account filed
June 1994HailKandiyohi-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kandiyohi 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
Willmar6.0 miles10
Spicer7.0 miles10
Atwater8.1 miles10
Parkwood Estates8.1 miles10
Svea10.1 miles10
New London11.7 miles8
Priam12.0 miles9
Pennock13.1 miles9

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 KandiyohiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230463The 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 646033. 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.