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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.

Kent within Wilkin County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Kent 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.

YearPeople Change
201081
202065-16 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Storms near this place

26 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2008Flash FloodKent$20,000U.S. Highway 75 was flooded at the railroad underpass near Kent.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Kent$15,000This 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 2013Flash FloodKent$5,000Water was reported over U. S. Highway 75 near Kent.
July 2008HailKent$5,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindKent$200Several trees were downed by the strong wind.
April 2022Funnel CloudKent-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 2021Thunderstorm WindKent-Minnesota DOT RWIS station measured this peak wind gust.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindKent-Peak wind gust of 62 mph measured on a personal weather station.
June 2017HailKent-A few dime to quarter sized hail fell.
August 2016HailKent-A few dime to nickel sized hail fell along with very heavy rain.
August 2016HailKent-Marble to quarter sized hail fell across southern Mitchell Township along with very heavy rain and strong winds.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindKent-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 2009Heavy RainKent-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 2007Flash FloodKent-Water was reported over U.S. Highway 75 near Kent.
August 2005Flash FloodKent-Numerous township roads were under water from the heavy rain.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Kent-A brief touchdown occurred near highway 3.
June 2003Flash FloodKent-Water filled the underpass on Highway 75 near Kent.
July 1998HailKent-The large hail damaged a few vehicles and smashed some house windows.
August 2016HailKent-no account filed
May 2008FloodKent-no account filed
April 2007FloodKent-no account filed
June 2005HailKent-no account filed
June 2003HailKent-no account filed
August 2001HailKent-no account filed
July 1998HailKent-no account filed
August 1997HailKent-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wilkin 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
McCauleyville1.3 miles9
Brushvale5.1 miles11
Wolverton9.1 miles22
Breckenridge13.0 miles11
Everdell18.7 miles11
Lawndale19.1 miles9
Doran20.4 miles8
Rothsay21.6 miles11

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 KentAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230536The 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.