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Kennedy, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Kennedy City. It lies in ZIP code area 56733. The Survey maps it on the Kennedy quadrangle. 176 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 827 feet above sea level.

Kennedy within Kittson County

Population over time

2 figures

Kennedy fell from 193 to 176 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
2010193
2020176-17 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Kennedy between 1995 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
19 September 2004Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2019Debris and open burning10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 May 1995Debris and open burning20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2008Arson/incendiarism10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 October 1997Arson/incendiarism80 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kittson County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kennedy in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 8 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2001Thunderstorm WindKennedy$5,000Power poles were blown down.
June 2020HailKennedy-One to two inch diameter hail nearly covered the ground.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindKennedy-Large trees were blown down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindKennedy-Several large tree branches and limbs were broken down around town.
July 2006Funnel CloudKennedy-A funnel cloud developed under a persistent wall cloud formation and was witnessed by a farmer in his field southeast of Kennedy. The wall cloud appeared to turn to the right of its original southeast path and toward a more southerly direction at that point. A tornadic touchdown initiated several minutes later east of Donaldson.
August 2004Tornado (F0)Kennedy-The tornado briefly touched down.
August 2002Flash FloodKennedy-County roads were covered with water.
August 2000FloodKennedy-Five inches of rain fell at Kennedy, MN, which resulted in a coulee rising over its banks. Several basements in town had water seepage.
July 2014HailKennedy-no account filed
June 2002HailKennedy-no account filed
June 2001HailKennedy-no account filed
August 2000HailKennedy-no account filed
August 2000HailKennedy-no account filed
August 2000HailKennedy-no account filed
August 1998HailKennedy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kittson 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
Donaldson4.9 miles11
Chatham (historical)5.1 miles11
Enok8.0 miles11
Viking Land Terrace9.0 miles11
Mattson9.3 miles12
Hallock9.4 miles11
Robbin13.3 miles13
Lake Bronson14.6 miles10

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 KennedyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230455The 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 646089. 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.

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.