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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.

Kennedy within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Kennedy, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Kennedy, surveyed 1905

Population over time

2 figures

Kennedy 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.

YearPeople Change
2010465
2020473+8 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

69 since 1997

Regional 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/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural11
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2020Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
9 August 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 August 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Area Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tri-James Services PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2014Flash FloodKennedy$100,000no account filed
September 2016Thunderstorm WindKennedy$15,000Law enforcement reported wires on Route 62 downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindKennedy$15,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindKennedy$13,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindKennedy$4,000Trees and wires were reported down along route 394.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindKennedy$1,000Multiple trees were downed.
June 2025HailKennedy-Social media report of half to one inch hail in Kennedy.
August 2021Heavy RainKennedy-Storm total rainfall that was reported during the entirety of the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred.
June 2018Flash FloodKennedy-I-86 eastbound was reported closed between exits 14 and 15 because of flooding.
June 2018Flash FloodKennedy-Route 394 closed between Dry Brook Road and Route 62.
June 2018Heavy RainKennedy-Rain fell from 3 to 630 PM.

Every storm recorded in Chautauqua 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
Poland Center1.9 miles17
Waterboro2.0 miles17
Clark2.3 miles17
Ellington4.1 miles17
Levant4.5 miles17
Clear Creek4.9 miles17
Falconer5.8 miles17
Ivory6.0 miles17

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 KennedyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5959065The 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.