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Kellyton, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Goodwater-Kellyton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35089. It stands on Cat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kellyton quadrangle. 129 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Kellyton within Coosa County

Population over time

2 figures

Kellyton fell from 217 to 129 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
2010217
2020129-88 (-41%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

132 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Kellyton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 598 acres in total. None started naturally. 31 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 burning54
Arson/incendiarism31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
19 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140919-001
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190913-9
12 September 2010Debris and open burning9.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2011Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 28, AL
6 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180706-1
22 July 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200722-5
18 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kellyton: 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tin, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Rockford AreaFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Dave Marbury Tin PropertyTinOccurrence
Prospect Number SixTinProspect
Prospect Number TenTinProspect

Every working recorded in Coosa County

Storms near this place

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kellyton in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2000Thunderstorm WindKellyton$10,000Several trees were blown down near the intersection of CR 50 and Church Street.
September 2009Flash FloodKellyton$5,000Several county roads around Coosa County had to be closed due to water over them, including CR-119, CR-16, CR-112, and CR-37.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindKellyton$4,000Several large trees were blown down in Kellyton.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindKellyton$4,000A few trees were blown down along CR 85 near the train tracks. The tracks were temporarily blocked by the fallen trees.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindKellyton-A bowing segment embedded within a line of strong thunderstorms produced isolated damage around the Kellyton community in eastern Coosa County on the morning of February 21, 2026. This damage was surveyed by NWS meteorologists and was determined to be the result of straight-line winds. A manufactured home sustained major roof damage on Trailer Park Rd, but this was an isolated incident with no further damage noted to the surrounding homes or trees. The bowing segment continued east with a localized area of several uprooted and a few snapped pines noted along Moon Rd. A metal outbuilding in this area also sustained minor roof damage with a corner of tin peeled back. Minor tree and power line damage was noted at times as far east as Dobbs Rd and Greenleaf St near Highway 63 in Tallapoosa County.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindKellyton-A tree and power lines were blown down into the roadway along Moon Branch Road.
August 2024HailKellyton-Up to golf ball-size hail was reported near Kellyton.
March 2023HailKellyton-Golf ball size hail reported in Kellyton.
December 2005HailKellyton-Marble to nickel size hail was observed in Kellyton.
April 2006HailKellyton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coosa 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
Socapatoy1.8 miles14
Soleo2.3 miles23
Bradford2.9 miles14
Hatchet4.6 miles23
Keyno5.0 miles14
Jon5.9 miles14
Crewsville6.0 miles14
Goodwater6.0 miles23

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 KellytonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66856The 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 121129. 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.