Kinbrae, Minnesota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Kinbrae City. It lies in ZIP code area 56131. The Survey maps it on the Dundee quadrangle. 10 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,467 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKinbrae fell from 12 to 10 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 | 12 | |
| 2020 | 10 | -2 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Dundee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Worthington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Kinbrae in 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kinbrae: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christenson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kinbrae in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Kinbrae | $10,000 | A tornado touched down around 1 mile west-southwest of Kinbrae, just south of 120th Street to the east of Town Avenue. The tornado traveled northeast and crossed the road, where the tornado passed through a farmstead and removed a few metal panels from a farm outbuilding. After the tornado left a path across a corn field while it moved another one-half mile northeast, the tornado impacted a tree line and uprooted a large pine tree. The tornado continued across open fields with a slightly more eastward turn, then lifted near the intersection of 110th Street and Ulrich Avenue. The path was captured by a local resident with a drone, with an average path width of 40 yards. The tornado was rated an EF-0 with a maximum wind speed of 80 mph. Property damage costs are a rough estimate. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Kinbrae | - | Hail up to golf ball size pummeled crops in northeast Nobles county. Damage can be seen from satellite data. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinbrae | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinbrae | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down tree branches. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Kinbrae | - | Heavy rainfall caused flooding of gravel roads near East Graham Lake, closing the roads. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Kinbrae | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Kinbrae | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Kinbrae | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Kinbrae | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Kinbrae | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dundee | 1.8 miles | 8 | |
| Brewster | 8.8 miles | 8 | |
| Pfingsten | 10.0 miles | 7 | |
| Reading | 14.6 miles | 8 | |
| Worthington | 15.3 miles | 8 | |
| Wilmont | 18.5 miles | 7 | |
| Org | 19.0 miles | 8 | |
| Round Lake | 19.7 miles | 7 |
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 Kinbrae | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230488 | 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 646150. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.



