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Kellerman, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Brookwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35444. It stands on Flatrock Branch. The Survey maps it on the Brookwood quadrangle. It stands 538 feet above sea level.

Kellerman within Tuscaloosa County

On record in Kellerman

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

66 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Kellerman between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,346 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 28 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
Arson/incendiarism28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning11
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism27 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSTANLEY RD. N. OF BROOKWOOD, AL
17 August 2019Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190817-1
17 August 2000Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2000Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Storms near this place

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kellerman in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
April 2000Tornado (F2)Kellerman$15,000no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindKellerman$5,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in and near Kellerman. Several of the fallen trees temporarily blocked roadways. Dime size hail was also reported during the storm.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindKellerman-Antioch Fire Department reported numerous trees were downed along Lock 17 Rd. Relayed by a trained spotter.
March 2021Tornado (EF1)Kellerman-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northeastern Tuscaloosa County and determined that it was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum winds near 110 mph. A tornado touched down in rural Tuscaloosa county with numerous hardwood and softwood trees were snapped or uprooted. Damage began along Burchfield Road where the most intense damage was observed. The tornado moved through mostly inaccessible areas, crossing Cane Creek, Davis Creek, and Rockhouse Creek before crossing into Jefferson County near Ethridge Road.
March 2019Tornado (EF0)Kellerman-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in Tuscaloosa County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 60 mph.||The survey team was unable to access the area where the tornado began. Based on RADAR velocity, reflectivity, and dual-pol data, the tornado was estimated to have started in a forested area about one-third of a mile southwest of Humphries Drive. This point is located west of County Road 59/Lock 17 Road and east of the Black Warrior River, due north of the Brookwood community. The tornado traveled northeast crossing Humphries Drive and lifted along Antioch Community Road. Damage primarily consisted of downed trees, but one mobile home sustained very minor damage to the underpinning.
February 2019HailKellerman-Quarter size hail covering the ground.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindKellerman-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed at Yellow Creek Campground.
January 2012Tornado (EF1)Kellerman-A tornado touched down in Northeastern Tuscaloosa County just east of the Black Warrior River and then traveled into Jefferson County. The tornado initially touched down one mile west of Groundhog Road, approximately 3 miles northwest of Bull City. Here, dozens of soft and hardwood trees were snapped or uprooted. The tornado then traveled to the northeast with winds of 100 MPH, snapping and uprooting hundreds of trees along the track. It then crossed into Jefferson County, eventually lifting along Toadvine Road, just southwest of Short Creek. Merchantable timber losses estimated by the Alabama Forestry Commission for this track are approximately $5K.
March 2002HailKellerman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuscaloosa 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
Burchfield0.4 miles21
Searles1.4 miles21
North Alabama Junction4.1 miles21
East Brookwood4.4 miles21
Pattersontown5.0 miles19
Klondike5.3 miles21
Bull City5.8 miles23
Brookwood5.9 miles21

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 KellermanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14679232The 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 121109. 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.

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.