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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.

Kinbrae within Nobles County

Population over time

2 figures

Kinbrae 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.

YearPeople Change
201012
202010-2 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2020

Regional 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/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nobles County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Christenson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Nobles County

Storms near this place

10 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Tornado (EF0)Kinbrae$10,000A 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 2020HailKinbrae-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 2009Thunderstorm WindKinbrae-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindKinbrae-Thunderstorm winds blew down tree branches.
July 2001Flash FloodKinbrae-Heavy rainfall caused flooding of gravel roads near East Graham Lake, closing the roads.
April 2025HailKinbrae-no account filed
July 2011HailKinbrae-no account filed
July 2011HailKinbrae-no account filed
July 2011HailKinbrae-no account filed
June 2002HailKinbrae-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nobles 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
Dundee1.8 miles8
Brewster8.8 miles8
Pfingsten10.0 miles7
Reading14.6 miles8
Worthington15.3 miles8
Wilmont18.5 miles7
Org19.0 miles8
Round Lake19.7 miles7

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 KinbraeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230488The 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.