Kennedy, New York
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Poland town. It lies in ZIP code area 14747. It stands on Indian Brook. The Survey maps it on the Kennedy quadrangle. 473 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,270 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1905 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresKennedy grew from 465 to 473 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 | 465 | |
| 2020 | 473 | +8 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1905 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Kennedy quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Kennedy quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
69 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Kennedy between 1997 and 2020, burning about 136 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 12 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2020 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 9 August 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 August 2016 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 30 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 17 July 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kennedy: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Area Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Tri-James Services Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kennedy in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 heavy rain, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2014 | Flash Flood | Kennedy | $100,000 | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennedy | $15,000 | Law enforcement reported wires on Route 62 downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennedy | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennedy | $13,000 | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennedy | $4,000 | Trees and wires were reported down along route 394. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennedy | $1,000 | Multiple trees were downed. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Kennedy | - | Social media report of half to one inch hail in Kennedy. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Kennedy | - | Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Kennedy | - | I-86 eastbound was reported closed between exits 14 and 15 because of flooding. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Kennedy | - | Route 394 closed between Dry Brook Road and Route 62. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Kennedy | - | Rain fell from 3 to 630 PM. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland Center | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Waterboro | 2.0 miles | 17 | |
| Clark | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| Ellington | 4.1 miles | 17 | |
| Levant | 4.5 miles | 17 | |
| Clear Creek | 4.9 miles | 17 | |
| Falconer | 5.8 miles | 17 | |
| Ivory | 6.0 miles | 17 |
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 Kennedy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5959065 | 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 954501. 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.








