BlockKenneth, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Kenneth City. It lies in ZIP code area 56147. The Survey maps it on the Kenneth quadrangle. 60 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,578 feet above sea level.
On record in Kenneth
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
- Kenneth Schoollisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresKenneth fell from 68 to 60 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 | 68 | |
| 2020 | 60 | -8 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Kenneth quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenneth in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2020 | Flash Flood | Kenneth | - | Water was reported flowing over roads north of Kenneth. |
| July 2020 | Heavy Rain | Kenneth | - | Rainfall report of 5.25 inches relayed through the Nobles County Emergency Manager. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Kenneth | - | Large hail whitened the ground. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Kenneth | - | Hail the size of quarters and smaller hail covered the ground. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenneth | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including trees split by the wind, and branches up to 6 inches in diameter blown down. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Kenneth | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Kenneth | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Kenneth | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenneth | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Kenneth | - | 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.
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 Kenneth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230444 | 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 646096. 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.
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.