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Kennett, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Independence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63857. It stands on Snipe Slough. The Survey maps it on the Kennett South quadrangle. 10,515 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 269 feet above sea level.

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Kennett within Dunklin County

On record in Kennett

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Kennett fell from 10,932 to 10,515 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
201010,932
202010,515-417 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

Storms near this place

60 of 87 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kennett in 87 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 39 hail, 38 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
April 2006Thunderstorm WindKennett$75,000Straight lined winds blew trees and power lines down near Kennett. Three buildings were damaged. Two houses on county roads 508 and 551 sustained major damage. Irrigation equipment was also blown over.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindKennett$35,000A hangar at the Kennett Municipal Airport was blown down. Numerous trees, power lines and signs were knocked down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindKennett$27,000A trailer was blown off its foundation and several trees were knocked down by straight line winds.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindKennett$20,000Several homes were damaged. A few trees were also knocked down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindKennett$15,000One building was damaged. A trailer was blown around. Some power lines were knocked down.
April 2006HailKennett$15,000no account filed
December 2016Thunderstorm WindKennett$10,000Tree damage reported near Kennett.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindKennett$10,000A shed was blown down. Several large trees and some stop signs were also knocked down.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindKennett$10,000Several trees were knocked down. One home was damaged.
February 2000Thunderstorm WindKennett$10,000The transmission tower of radio station KTMO-FM was severely damaged.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindKennett$10,000One building was badly damaged. Several trees and power lines were knocked down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindKennett$10,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindKennett$7,000A truck was rolled over and several large tree limbs were blown down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindKennett$5,000Some portable carport buildings were blown over.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindKennett$5,000Several trees were blown down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindKennett$5,000Some power lines were blown down.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindKennett$5,000A few trees were blown down.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindKennett$5,000Several trees were knocked down.
July 1998Flash FloodKennett$5,000Numerous streets in Kennett were flooded.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindKennett$5,000An emergency management radio tower was blown over. Several power lines were knocked down.
May 1995HailKennett$5,000Several large tree limbs were blown down. A few of these limbs damaged a home and a car.
June 1995HailKennett$5,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindKennett$3,000Straight line winds knocked a few trees down at a golf course 1 mile east of Kennett.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindKennett$2,000Tree tops removed and several uprooted trees on Falcon Drive in Kennett.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindKennett$2,000Several trees were blown down 1 mile west of Kennett.
March 2008HailKennett$2,000no account filed
June 2008HailKennett$1,500no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindKennett$1,000Tree blown down on East Commercial St.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindKennett$1,000Straight line winds blew a window out of a pharmacy in Kennett.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindKennett$1,000Straight line winds knocked a few power lines down.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindKennett$1,000Some large road signs were blown down.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindKennett$1,000A few trees were blown down.
May 2002Flash FloodKennett$1,000Some streets had between 2 and 3 feet of water covering them. Several cars were stranded.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindKennett$1,000A few trees were blown down.
May 2006HailKennett$1,000no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindKennett$1,000no account filed
May 1995HailKennett$1,000no account filed
May 1995HailKennett$1,000no account filed
May 1995HailKennett$1,000no account filed
July 2003HailKennett$750no account filed
January 1999HailKennett$750no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindKennett$500A tree is down on Patty Lynn Drive.
December 1996Thunderstorm WindKennett$500no account filed
June 2004HailKennett$250no account filed
February 1997HailKennett$250no account filed
May 2003HailKennett$200no account filed
April 1998HailKennett$150Nickle to quarter size hail fell in Kennett.
November 2005HailKennett$150no account filed
March 2004HailKennett$100no account filed
September 2001HailKennett$100no account filed
May 1999HailKennett$100no account filed
April 1998HailKennett$100no account filed
October 1996HailKennett$100no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F0)Kennett$50A tornado briefly touched down near Kennett producing very little damage.
July 1998FloodKennett$50Some minor urban flooding occurred in the Kennett area.
June 2006Flash FloodKennett$10Heavy rain caused 50 percent of the streets in Kennett to be impassable from flooding.
July 2006Flash FloodKennett$10County roads were partially flooded near Highway EE.
November 2005HailKennett$10no account filed
July 2004HailKennett$10no account filed
January 2000HailKennett$10no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dunklin 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
Bark Camp (historical)2.1 miles11
Mackeys3.3 miles9
Scobeville3.6 miles12
Ipley4.3 miles11
Dillman4.4 miles12
Kirk4.7 miles8
Vincit4.9 miles12
Johnson Mill5.3 miles12

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 KennettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q374636The 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 731596. 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.

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.