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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.

Kinney within St. Louis County

Population over time

2 figures

Kinney 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.

YearPeople Change
2010169
2020152-17 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

78 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism27
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
10 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2016Fireworksunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 116 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Midway No.2 MineIron, Silica, Manganese, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, FreePast Producer
Sharon MineIron, Manganese, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1902
Wabigon & Wabigon No.2 MineIron, Manganese, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1925
Forster MineIron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreeUnknown1949
Hartley-Burt MineIron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1910
Iron Chief MineIron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1942
Lenont Reserve O-35Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreeProspect
State Road No 66 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State Road No 66 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ulland Bros ShopsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2020HailKinney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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
Lucknow0.9 miles14
Buhl2.9 miles13
Grant3.8 miles13
Sherwood4.3 miles14
Scott4.9 miles13
Mountain Iron5.8 miles16
Saint Clair Junction6.7 miles13
Wilpen7.2 miles13

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 KinneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230301The 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.