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Kelly, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Hopkinsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42240. The Survey maps it on the Kelly quadrangle. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Kelly within Christian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

27 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Kelly between 1999 and 2014, burning about 346 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning7
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 June 2012Smokingunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryMEDIAN FIR
6 April 2014Railroad operations and maintenance18 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOPKINSVILLE /MT ZION
3 April 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2009Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Christian County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kelly: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Old Highway ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Christian County

Storms near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kelly in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 2005Tornado (F1)Kelly$15,000An unoccupied mobile home was damaged. The mobile home was unroofed and pushed off its foundation. The tin roof on a garage was partially blown off. A garage door was pushed in, and another large garage door was blown out. Tin and other lightweight materials were blown several hundred feet. Peak winds in this very short track tornado were estimated near 80 MPH. Several witnesses reported their observations to local law enforcement officials.
March 2025HailKelly-Quarter size hail fell along Cavanah Rd north of Hopkinsville.
May 2025HailKelly-Hail estimated to nickel size fell on Woodburn-Hay Rd.
July 2015Heavy RainKelly-Heavy rains from an evening thunderstorm resulted in flooding of low-lying areas in Kelly. The ground was already saturated from a thunderstorm complex during the early morning hours. The Kentucky mesonet site located six miles north of Hopkinsville measured 4.05 inches for the calendar day. A trained spotter in Gracey measured 4.32 inches for the day.
January 2012HailKelly-Small tree limbs were reported down at this same location. Winds were estimated near 55 mph.
March 2011HailKelly-no account filed
April 1999HailKelly-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Christian 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
Cavanaugh1.6 miles9
Dogwood3.8 miles9
Pleasant Green Hill3.9 miles8
Thomas Store (historical)4.3 miles12
Antioch (historical)5.3 miles9
Palestine (historical)5.3 miles8
Crofton5.3 miles12
Hickory With (historical)5.6 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 KellyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22030522The 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 495617. 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.