Kent, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Kent City. It lies in ZIP code area 56553. The Survey maps it on the Abercrombie quadrangle. 65 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 945 feet above sea level.
On record in Kent
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
Femco Farm No. 2listed 1980
Population over time
2 figuresKent fell from 81 to 65 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 | 81 | |
| 2020 | 65 | -16 (-20%) |
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.
- 1904 USGS Wahpeton quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Abercrombie quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wahpeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Storms near this place
26 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kent in 26 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 11 hail, 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Kent | $20,000 | U.S. Highway 75 was flooded at the railroad underpass near Kent. |
| April 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Kent | $15,000 | This tornado touched down near a farmstead and then tracked intermittently to the east for about a half mile. The tornado tore all of the tin roofing and roof panels from an open faced pole shed. It also tore down several tree limbs in the farmyard and tossed a trampoline on top of the garage. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Kent | $5,000 | Water was reported over U. S. Highway 75 near Kent. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Kent | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kent | $200 | Several trees were downed by the strong wind. |
| April 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Kent | - | A brief funnel was reported to the Wilkin County S.O. as being overhead the spotters location. Local storm chasers confirmed that it was short lived and did not touch down. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kent | - | Minnesota DOT RWIS station measured this peak wind gust. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kent | - | Peak wind gust of 62 mph measured on a personal weather station. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Kent | - | A few dime to quarter sized hail fell. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Kent | - | A few dime to nickel sized hail fell along with very heavy rain. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Kent | - | Marble to quarter sized hail fell across southern Mitchell Township along with very heavy rain and strong winds. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kent | - | Several sections of corn, soybeans, and other crops were flattened by damaging winds across Mitchell Township. Most shelterbelts had large tree limbs broken down or an occasional tree snapped near ground level. Peak winds were estimated in excess of 75 mph. |
| June 2009 | Heavy Rain | Kent | - | There were several reports of 3.50 to 4 inches of rain over northern Wilkin County, in an area bounded roughly from Barnesville to Rothsay to Fergus Falls to Abercrombie. Some roads were under water. |
| April 2007 | Flash Flood | Kent | - | Water was reported over U.S. Highway 75 near Kent. |
| August 2005 | Flash Flood | Kent | - | Numerous township roads were under water from the heavy rain. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Kent | - | A brief touchdown occurred near highway 3. |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Kent | - | Water filled the underpass on Highway 75 near Kent. |
| July 1998 | Hail | Kent | - | The large hail damaged a few vehicles and smashed some house windows. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Kent | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Flood | Kent | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Flood | Kent | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Kent | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Kent | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Kent | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Kent | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Kent | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McCauleyville | 1.3 miles | 9 | |
| Brushvale | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Wolverton | 9.1 miles | 22 | |
| Breckenridge | 13.0 miles | 11 | |
| Everdell | 18.7 miles | 11 | |
| Lawndale | 19.1 miles | 9 | |
| Doran | 20.4 miles | 8 | |
| Rothsay | 21.6 miles | 11 |
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 Kent | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230536 | 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 646108. 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.





