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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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
Ely and Walker Shirt Factory No. 5listed 2008- Kennett City Hall and Masonic Lodgelisted 1981
Population over time
2 figuresKennett 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10,932 | |
| 2020 | 10,515 | -417 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1934 USGS Kennett quadrangle1:62500
- 1940 USGS Kennett quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Kennett quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Kennett South quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
60 of 87 shownRegional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $75,000 | Straight 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $35,000 | A hangar at the Kennett Municipal Airport was blown down. Numerous trees, power lines and signs were knocked down. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $27,000 | A trailer was blown off its foundation and several trees were knocked down by straight line winds. |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $20,000 | Several homes were damaged. A few trees were also knocked down. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $15,000 | One building was damaged. A trailer was blown around. Some power lines were knocked down. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Kennett | $15,000 | no account filed |
| December 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $10,000 | Tree damage reported near Kennett. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $10,000 | A shed was blown down. Several large trees and some stop signs were also knocked down. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $10,000 | Several trees were knocked down. One home was damaged. |
| February 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $10,000 | The transmission tower of radio station KTMO-FM was severely damaged. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $10,000 | One building was badly damaged. Several trees and power lines were knocked down. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $10,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $7,000 | A truck was rolled over and several large tree limbs were blown down. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $5,000 | Some portable carport buildings were blown over. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $5,000 | Some power lines were blown down. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $5,000 | A few trees were blown down. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $5,000 | Several trees were knocked down. |
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Kennett | $5,000 | Numerous streets in Kennett were flooded. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $5,000 | An emergency management radio tower was blown over. Several power lines were knocked down. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Kennett | $5,000 | Several large tree limbs were blown down. A few of these limbs damaged a home and a car. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Kennett | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $3,000 | Straight line winds knocked a few trees down at a golf course 1 mile east of Kennett. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $2,000 | Tree tops removed and several uprooted trees on Falcon Drive in Kennett. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $2,000 | Several trees were blown down 1 mile west of Kennett. |
| March 2008 | Hail | Kennett | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Kennett | $1,500 | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $1,000 | Tree blown down on East Commercial St. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $1,000 | Straight line winds blew a window out of a pharmacy in Kennett. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $1,000 | Straight line winds knocked a few power lines down. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $1,000 | Some large road signs were blown down. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $1,000 | A few trees were blown down. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Kennett | $1,000 | Some streets had between 2 and 3 feet of water covering them. Several cars were stranded. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $1,000 | A few trees were blown down. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Kennett | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Kennett | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Kennett | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Kennett | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Kennett | $750 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | Kennett | $750 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $500 | A tree is down on Patty Lynn Drive. |
| December 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennett | $500 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Kennett | $250 | no account filed |
| February 1997 | Hail | Kennett | $250 | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Kennett | $200 | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Kennett | $150 | Nickle to quarter size hail fell in Kennett. |
| November 2005 | Hail | Kennett | $150 | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Kennett | $100 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Kennett | $100 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Kennett | $100 | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Kennett | $100 | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Hail | Kennett | $100 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Kennett | $50 | A tornado briefly touched down near Kennett producing very little damage. |
| July 1998 | Flood | Kennett | $50 | Some minor urban flooding occurred in the Kennett area. |
| June 2006 | Flash Flood | Kennett | $10 | Heavy rain caused 50 percent of the streets in Kennett to be impassable from flooding. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Kennett | $10 | County roads were partially flooded near Highway EE. |
| November 2005 | Hail | Kennett | $10 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Kennett | $10 | no account filed |
| January 2000 | Hail | Kennett | $10 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bark Camp (historical) | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Mackeys | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Scobeville | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Ipley | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Dillman | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Kirk | 4.7 miles | 8 | |
| Vincit | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Johnson Mill | 5.3 miles | 12 |
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 Kennett | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q374636 | 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 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.







