BlockKerkhoven, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pillsbury Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56252. The Survey maps it on the Kerkhoven quadrangle. 805 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,099 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKerkhoven grew from 759 to 805 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 | 759 | |
| 2020 | 805 | +46 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Kerkhoven quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Willmar quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
15 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kerkhoven in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Kerkhoven | - | Delayed report via X with photo attached. Time estimated from radar. |
| September 2021 | Hail | Kerkhoven | - | Most of the hail was less than one inch in diameter. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kerkhoven | - | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kerkhoven | - | A few trees were blown down southwest of Sunburg, Minnesota. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kerkhoven | - | Tree and old shed blown down. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Kerkhoven | - | A new mesocyclone formed to the northeast of the storm that produced the Benson tornado. This new storm went on to produce five tornadoes, with the last one occurring near New Market in Scott County. This storm also produced large hail and very strong damaging wind from its beginning, all the way to the southern suburbs of Minneapolis. This mesocyclones first tornado touched down in Swift County, 9 N to NNE Kerkhoven, and knocked down two barns and several outbuildings in the Monson Lake area before traveling into Kandiyohi County, one mile southwest of Sunburg. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Kerkhoven | - | Tornado knocked down a few dozen trees. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kerkhoven | - | Dozens of trees downed. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Kerkhoven | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Kerkhoven | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Kerkhoven | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Kerkhoven | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Kerkhoven | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kerkhoven | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kerkhoven | - | 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 Kerkhoven | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2121278 | 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 646118. 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.