Kinney, Minnesota
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Great Scott Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55758. The Survey maps it on the Kinney quadrangle. 152 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,542 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKinney fell from 169 to 152 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 | 169 | |
| 2020 | 152 | -17 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1951 USGS Kinney quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Vermillion Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
78 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Kinney between 1992 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. None started naturally. 27 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 27 |
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 July 2016 | Fireworks | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 116 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 116 workings within 5 miles of Kinney: 92 past producers, 14 producers, 8 prospects, 1 unknown. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midway No.2 Mine | Iron, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free | Past Producer | ||
| Sharon Mine | Iron, Manganese, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free | Past Producer | 1902 | |
| Wabigon & Wabigon No.2 Mine | Iron, Manganese, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free | Past Producer | 1925 | |
| Forster Mine | Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free | Unknown | 1949 | |
| Hartley-Burt Mine | Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free | Past Producer | 1910 | |
| Iron Chief Mine | Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free | Past Producer | 1942 | |
| Lenont Reserve O-35 | Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free | Prospect | ||
| State Road No 66 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| State Road No 66 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ulland Bros Shops | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kinney in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 hail. 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 2020 | Hail | Kinney | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lucknow | 0.9 miles | 14 | |
| Buhl | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Grant | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Sherwood | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Scott | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Mountain Iron | 5.8 miles | 16 | |
| Saint Clair Junction | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Wilpen | 7.2 miles | 13 |
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 Kinney | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230301 | 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 661645. 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.





