Kellerton, Iowa
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Athens Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50133. The Survey maps it on the Kellerton quadrangle. 243 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,201 feet above sea level.
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Population over time
2 figuresKellerton fell from 315 to 243 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 | 315 | |
| 2020 | 243 | -72 (-23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1945 USGS Mount Ayr quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Mount Ayr quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Kellerton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Mount Ayr quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Kellerton in 2011, burning about 210 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 220TH NW OF KELLERTON, IA |
| 13 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 150 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 2 1/2 MI SE OF KELLERTON, IA |
Storms near this place
28 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kellerton in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kellerton | $75,000 | Emergency Manager reported a hole in a big barn on its west side and shingles missing off of a house, but no major structural damage. Primarily only loose items thrown around and some uprooted trees/branches. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kellerton | $75,000 | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kellerton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Kellerton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Kellerton | $25,000 | Ringgold County Emergency Manager reports closures due to water over the road on Highway 2 three miles west of Kellerton and on County Road P64 north and south of Highway 2. Numerous gravel roads were flooded throughout the county. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Kellerton | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kellerton | $10,000 | Four mature trees down along with numerous 6 inch diameter limbs. Two power lines were downed. An abandon mobile home was blown off its foundation. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kellerton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Kellerton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Kellerton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kellerton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Kellerton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Kellerton | $4,000 | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Kellerton | $3,000 | Trained spotter report hail up to 1.25 inches in diameter for several minutes. The hail preceded rain and continued with rain. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kellerton | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kellerton | $1,000 | Observer reported wind gusts of at least 60 MPH with rain blowing horizontally. |
| June 1996 | Hail | Kellerton | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Heavy Rain | Kellerton | - | Storm total precipitation of 4.6 inches from a personal weather station. Still raining. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Kellerton | - | Quart to 2.25 inch diameter hail lasted for 6 minutes from 1044 to 1050 pm local time. Small twigs broken off. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kellerton | - | Personal weather station measured 66 mph wind gust. |
| November 2022 | Heavy Rain | Kellerton | - | A 24 hour rain total of 4.10 inches. |
| May 2018 | Heavy Rain | Kellerton | - | Trained spotter measured heavy rainfall of 1.9 inches from about 6 am through 9:15 am this morning. |
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Kellerton | - | Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 3.90 inches over the last 11 hours. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kellerton | - | Emergency manager reported trees down on a vehicle along with roof and building damage. This is a delayed report. |
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | Kellerton | - | Public reported heavy rainfall of 4.1 inches storm total. |
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | Kellerton | - | Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 4.50 inches storm total. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Kellerton | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Kellerton | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wanamaker | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Beaconsfield | 6.7 miles | 8 | |
| Caledonia (historical) | 8.4 miles | 12 | |
| Lee (historical) | 9.1 miles | 12 | |
| Ellston | 9.5 miles | 8 | |
| Mount Ayr | 9.8 miles | 12 | |
| Ringgold (historical) | 11.5 miles | 12 | |
| Watterson | 12.3 miles | 12 |
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 Kellerton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1931840 | 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 458029. 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.






