Pennock, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pennock City. It lies in ZIP code area 56279. The Survey maps it on the Pennock quadrangle. 479 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,129 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPennock fell from 508 to 479 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 | 508 | |
| 2020 | 479 | -29 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Pennock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Willmar quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Pennock between 2000 and 2018, burning about 154 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 76 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 2004 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | ZWEMKE |
| 4 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | QUINN WF |
| 6 April 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | PENNOCK |
| 4 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 43 acres | Litchfield Wetland Management District | LINDGREN LAKE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pennock in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Pennock | $1,000,000 | A multiple vortex tornado touched down west of Pennock near a turkey farm, which was severely damaged. 200 to 300 turkeys were killed. The tornado then tracked straight east through the city of Pennock, knocking down trees and causing some damage to houses, including partially removing the roof from one home. A large storage building was destroyed in Pennock, as were several sheds and a garage. Just east of Pennock, it took direct aim on a house, lifting off its roof and blowing a shed into a nearby field. Another garage nearby had its roof removed. A strong rear flank downdraft accompanied the tornado, producing wind damage from just east of Pennock to Willmar (see corresponding entry). |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pennock | $500,000 | A large portion of a turkey barn sheet metal roof was ripped off and blown up to 100 yards away. The flying debris also damaged nearby homes. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pennock | $100,000 | A strong rear flank downdraft accompanied the Pennock tornado (see corresponding entry). Several trees were felled, bleachers at an athletic complex were destroyed, a grain bin collapsed onto a Bobcat, and a sign at the Kandi Mall was knocked down. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pennock | $10,000 | There were two train cars that were derailed outside of Pennock city limits. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pennock | $10,000 | Power lines were reported blown down near Pennock, Minnesota. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pennock | - | A large tree was uprooted east of Pennock. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pennock | - | A power pole was blown down. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pennock | - | There were 8 to 10 inch diameter trees down on the road. |
| August 2016 | Flood | Pennock | - | A third round of heavy rainfall added up to 8-10 inches by early Thursday morning, August 11th. The runoff from the rainfall caused substantial damage to an estimated 800 to 1,000 homes in Willmar alone. The flood water also damaged businesses and parks. The city's municipal infrastructure, such as roads and utilities, were spared the worst damage, which is why Willmar did not declare a disaster. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pennock | - | Several large tree branches were blown off southwest of New London. |
| June 2012 | Heavy Rain | Pennock | - | An observer measured 3.01 inches of rainfall in the last 24 hours. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pennock | - | Branches and tree down in Pennock. Roof off of shed one mile north of Pennock, roof off shed and other out buildings just northwest of town. Tree toppled onto Highway 40 south of Pennock. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pennock | - | Winds estimated at 70 MPH ripped off the roof of a turkey barn along Route 12. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Pennock | - | Golf ball sized hail shredded over 1000 acres of soybean and corn crops in St. Johns Township southwest of Pennock. Two homes in the area suffered broken windows and damage to shingles and siding. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pennock | - | Roof ripped off turkey barn. Estimated windspeed. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Pennock | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Pennock | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Pennock | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Pennock | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Pennock | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Pennock | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Pennock | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Pennock | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkwood Estates | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Priam | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Willmar | 7.3 miles | 10 | |
| Norway Lake | 9.6 miles | 8 | |
| Raymond | 9.8 miles | 9 | |
| Svea | 13.0 miles | 10 | |
| Kandiyohi | 13.1 miles | 10 | |
| Spicer | 13.8 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 Pennock | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1009963 | 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 649266. 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.
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.




