Kelley, Iowa
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50134. The Survey maps it on the Slater quadrangle. 304 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKelley fell from 309 to 304 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 | 309 | |
| 2020 | 304 | -5 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1911 USGS Slater quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Slater quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Slater quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Kelley between 2009 and 2020, burning about 4 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 | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 3890 230TH ST., IA |
| 21 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 October 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kelley in 29 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 tornado, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Flood | Kelley | $250,000 | Numerous roads were under water, including E-18 and Lincoln Highway. |
| July 2018 | Flood | Kelley | $200,000 | Low lying areas still flooded across portions of the county along with water over some secondary roads and some damage to secondary roads from previous flash flooding. The emergency manager also reported minor damage to the park in Maxwell from flooding, moderate damage to secondary roads with some damage to bridges and trails across the county. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kelley | $40,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kelley | $30,000 | Top of grain bin crushed. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kelley | $30,000 | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Flash Flood | Kelley | $25,000 | Deep water flowing over the road from a field outside of Kelley and water reported over roads in Kelley. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Kelley | $25,000 | Six inches of water was over County Road 57. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Kelley | $25,000 | Water was reported 2 to 3 feet deep over parts of Highway 69 south of Ames. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Kelley | $5,000 | Winds estimated between 40 to 60 MPH. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kelley | $5,000 | Several trees in a small grove were snapped and a number of branches blown down. A field of corn was flattened with the damage extending for about a mile. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Kelley | $5,000 | Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported between Kelly and Slater. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kelley | $5,000 | A semi truck was blown off road on E57. |
| May 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Kelley | $5,000 | Brief touchdown in open area. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Kelley | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kelley | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kelley | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Kelley | $3,000 | Report received via KCCI television. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kelley | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kelley | $2,000 | Law enforcement reported a tree down that was blocking the road at the intersection of 270th and Y Ave. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kelley | $2,000 | An 18 inch diameter tree was snapped and blown down. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kelley | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Kelley | $1,000 | The tornado entered Story county from Boone county and immediately passed near a farmstead. It destroyed a small empty feed bin and tossed it into a field. Otherwise, the tornado remained in open cropland before dissipating shortly thereafter. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Kelley | - | Emergency manager reported flooding continued across southern Story County through the night with water over many roads impacting areas around Collins, Maxwell and south of Nevada. |
| August 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Kelley | - | Tornado found in hi-resolution satellite imagery. This tornado entered from Boone county and stayed in open row crops, mainly corn where the path was very visible in the imagery. |
| July 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Kelley | - | Several additional reports of this funnel cloud were received from the public and Emergency Manager as well. It lasted for a few minutes moving very slowly from Boone County into Story County never touching down. |
| June 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Kelley | - | Brief touchdown with no significant damage. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kelley | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Kelley | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Kelley | - | 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.
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 Kelley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q582272 | 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 458030. 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.







