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Kennan, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Kennan town. It lies in ZIP code area 54537. The Survey maps it on the Kennan quadrangle. 365 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,332 feet above sea level.

Kennan within Price County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Kennan between 1992 and 2019, burning about 30 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking2
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
7 September 1999Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2008Fireworksunder an acreGreat Lakes AgencyFIREWORKS
6 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMOONSHINE ALLEY
2 June 2002Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Price County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Kennan: 9 occurrences, 6 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Elm Drive Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Elm Drive Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Liberty Lane Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Moonshine Alley Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Moonshine Alley Gravel Deposit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Morgan Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Morgan Creek Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Morgan Creek Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oak Ridge Avenue Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Old Mill Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Price County

Storms near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kennan in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 9 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011Thunderstorm WindKennan$3,000Several small farm outbuildings were destroyed. Nearby large barns and house only sustained minor damage.
June 2019Tornado (EF0)Kennan-The tornado began at 654 PM CDT just east of Rusk Road and north of US Highway 8 in a wooded area and moved toward the east-southeast. Large hardwood branches were broken on County Road J just north of US Highway 8 northwest of Kennan. It crossed US Highway 8 near County Highway N on the northeast side of Kennan with no visible damage. The tornado crossed Midway Road east of Woodlawn Road to the west-southwest of Catawba and flipped a chicken coop and removed a roof from an outbuilding. It then continued east-southeast and crossed County Road I between Main Street and Moonshine Alley where a farmstead lost shingles off a single family home and several trees were damaged. It was at this location that the tornado reached its peak intensity. The tornado continued to move toward the east-southeast with little damage observed until it crossed County Road O and Otteson Road west of Ogema. A softwood tree and several large branches were broken as it crossed County Road O. As the tornado crossed Otteson Road it dished in overhead doors attached to an outbuilding, rolled a farm tractor onto its side, pushed a shed several yards, and partially removed the shingles from the same shed. The tornado lifted at 736 PM CDT in a wooded area south of Otteson Road and west of 10 Crossing Road.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindKennan-A few trees were blown down south of Kennan.
May 2017HailKennan-The relayed by the Price County Sheriff.
May 2017Tornado (EF0)Kennan-A supercell thunderstorm tracked across northwest Wisconsin during the late afternoon and early evening of 5/16/2017. The storm produced a strong, 83-mile-long track tornado which affected 4 Wisconsin counties (Polk, Barron, Rusk, and Price). The tornado developed at 4:42 pm over southeastern Polk County, east of Clear Lake, then moved east-northeastward across southern Barron County, and then east across southern Rusk counties into southwest Price County. The tornado tore across the Prairie Lake Estate 50-unit mobile home park halfway between Chetek and Cameron in Barron County. Dozens of mobile homes were destroyed and damaged from high-end EF-2 wind speeds. About a couple dozen people were injured, one seriously, and one adult man lost his life. The most intense damage was north of the Village of Conrath in Rusk County. A family home was completely destroyed down to the foundation, which resulted in an EF rating of 3 (140 mph). The remainder of the tornado's path ranged from EF0 to EF1 with mainly tree damage and occasional structural damage. The damage in Price County, along the last miles of its track, was EF0. The tornado dissipated at 7:10 pm. The tornado lasted 2 hours and 28 minutes.||As of June 2017, this was Wisconsin's longest tracked tornado on record since modern National Weather Service tornado records were established in 1950.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindKennan-Large trees were blown down in far southwest Price County.
April 2009HailKennan-Hail up to dime size fell on Highway 8.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindKennan-Several trees were blown down near Highway J. The report was a public report relayed by law enforcement.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindKennan-Trees were blown down. The wind speed is estimated.
July 2023HailKennan-no account filed
July 2023HailKennan-no account filed
July 2023HailKennan-no account filed
August 2018HailKennan-no account filed
May 2011HailKennan-no account filed
August 2010HailKennan-no account filed
June 2009HailKennan-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindKennan-no account filed
May 1998Tornado (F0)Kennan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Price 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
Catawba3.1 miles8
Pennington10.3 miles10
Cranberry Lake14.8 miles10
Phillips15.1 miles10
Prentice16.0 miles10
Worcester16.4 miles10
Ogema16.5 miles9
Lugerville17.4 miles10

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 KennanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2205117The 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 1567405. 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.