Kilkenny, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Kilkenny Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56052. The Survey maps it on the Kilkenny quadrangle. 148 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.

Kilkenny within Le Sueur County

Population over time

2 figures

Kilkenny grew from 134 to 148 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	134
2020	148	+14 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Kilkenny quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Faribault quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kilkenny in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood, 1 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
April 2026	Hail	Kilkenny	-	Report received via NWS Chat.
July 2019	Tornado (EF0)	Kilkenny	-	Multiple storm chasers observed and filmed a brief tornado in an open field.
August 2016	Flash Flood	Kilkenny	-	Flood waters closed a few roads in the town of Kilkenny.
August 2006	Hail	Kilkenny	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Kilkenny	-	no account filed
June 1998	Funnel Cloud	Kilkenny	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Le Sueur 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rogers	3.6 miles	10
Gishville (historical)	3.7 miles	10
Doyle	3.9 miles	10
Cordova	5.4 miles	10
Waterville	6.5 miles	10
Montgomery	8.7 miles	10
Elysian	9.5 miles	10
Le Center	9.8 miles	10

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 Kilkenny	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2089969	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 646140. 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.