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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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Kellerton within Ringgold County

Population over time

2 figures

Kellerton 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.

YearPeople Change
2010315
2020243-72 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

2 since 2011

Regional 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/undetermined2

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
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources220TH NW OF KELLERTON, IA
13 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2 1/2 MI SE OF KELLERTON, IA

Every fire recorded in Ringgold County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2015Thunderstorm WindKellerton$75,000Emergency 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 2001Thunderstorm WindKellerton$75,000no account filed
March 2002Thunderstorm WindKellerton$50,000no account filed
May 1994HailKellerton$50,000no account filed
July 2008Flash FloodKellerton$25,000Ringgold 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 2005HailKellerton$20,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindKellerton$10,000Four 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 1997Thunderstorm WindKellerton$10,000no account filed
March 2007HailKellerton$5,000no account filed
May 2002HailKellerton$5,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindKellerton$5,000no account filed
May 1994HailKellerton$5,000no account filed
April 2001HailKellerton$4,000no account filed
July 2015HailKellerton$3,000Trained spotter report hail up to 1.25 inches in diameter for several minutes. The hail preceded rain and continued with rain.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindKellerton$3,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindKellerton$1,000Observer reported wind gusts of at least 60 MPH with rain blowing horizontally.
June 1996HailKellerton$1,000no account filed
June 2025Heavy RainKellerton-Storm total precipitation of 4.6 inches from a personal weather station. Still raining.
June 2024HailKellerton-Quart to 2.25 inch diameter hail lasted for 6 minutes from 1044 to 1050 pm local time. Small twigs broken off.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindKellerton-Personal weather station measured 66 mph wind gust.
November 2022Heavy RainKellerton-A 24 hour rain total of 4.10 inches.
May 2018Heavy RainKellerton-Trained spotter measured heavy rainfall of 1.9 inches from about 6 am through 9:15 am this morning.
August 2018Heavy RainKellerton-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 3.90 inches over the last 11 hours.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindKellerton-Emergency manager reported trees down on a vehicle along with roof and building damage. This is a delayed report.
August 2016Heavy RainKellerton-Public reported heavy rainfall of 4.1 inches storm total.
August 2016Heavy RainKellerton-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 4.50 inches storm total.
May 2014HailKellerton-no account filed
October 2001HailKellerton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ringgold 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
Wanamaker5.5 miles12
Beaconsfield6.7 miles8
Caledonia (historical)8.4 miles12
Lee (historical)9.1 miles12
Ellston9.5 miles8
Mount Ayr9.8 miles12
Ringgold (historical)11.5 miles12
Watterson12.3 miles12

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 KellertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1931840The 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.