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Kelly, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66538. The Survey maps it on the Corning quadrangle. 27 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,243 feet above sea level.

Kelly within Nemaha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

18 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Kelly between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,005 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
10 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNemaha County13
6 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined144 acresKansas Forest Service347
15 April 2001Debris and open burning160 acresHorton AgencySPOOK
10 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined420 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKansas Forest Service12
31 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
22 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKansas Forest Service22
22 March 2001Debris and open burning10 acresHorton AgencyWHO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nemaha County

Storms near this place

13 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kelly in 13 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 10 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindKelly-Trees significantly bent, power out at the spotter location.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindKelly-Large hackberry tree split due to thunderstorm wind. Time estimated from radar.
April 2016HailKelly-Winds also estimated to be 30-40 mph.
May 2013HailKelly-Time estimated from radar.
May 2013Flash FloodKelly-Sheriff reports 96th road is flooded around Kelly, as well as north of Corning and Goff.
June 2009HailKelly-Quarter size hail reported with a severe thunderstorm.
May 2019HailKelly-no account filed
May 2013HailKelly-no account filed
June 2009HailKelly-no account filed
June 2009HailKelly-no account filed
June 2009HailKelly-no account filed
June 2009HailKelly-no account filed
June 2009HailKelly-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nemaha 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
Corning5.7 miles14
Goff6.3 miles17
Centralia6.6 miles14
Seneca7.4 miles14
Woodlawn8.0 miles17
Oneida9.3 miles17
Capioma10.1 miles17
Bancroft10.5 miles17

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 KellyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16893237The 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 473221. 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.