Kelly, Wyoming
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Jackson Hole census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83011. The Survey maps it on the Blue Miner Lake quadrangle. 127 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,653 feet above sea level.
On record in Kelly
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Gap Puche Cabinlisted 1990
Population over time
2 figuresKelly fell from 138 to 127 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 | 138 | |
| 2020 | 127 | -11 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1899 USGS Grand Teton quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Grand Teton quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Blue Miner Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Jackson Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Blue Miner Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
66 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Kelly between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,126 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 34 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 340 acres | Grand Teton National Park | HAYFIELDS |
| 7 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Bridger-Teton National Forest | CARPENTER |
| 6 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Teton National Park | PRONGHORN |
| 3 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | National Elk Refuge | SNAKE RIVR |
| 3 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | National Elk Refuge | HIGHLANDS |
| 24 September 1992 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Grand Teton National Park | QUAKING |
| 10 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Bridger-Teton National Forest | BIERER CREEK |
| 9 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Teton National Park | SCIENCE SC |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kelly: 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat Creek Occurrence No. 2 | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Gros Ventre Slide Occurrence | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Occurrence | ||
| Gros Ventre Slide Prospect | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Kelly Slide Area | Uranium | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
2 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kelly in 2 storm reports in 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kelly | - | A supercell thunderstorm moved over the Bridger Teton National Forest to the east of Jackson, WY. Strong outflow winds from the supercell downed hundreds of trees over an approximately 6 mile path. There was extensive damage to the Crystal Creek Campground, where people were trapped until the road could be cleared 24 hours later. The Grizzly Lake Trail and Gros Ventre River Road were affected by tree damage. Maximum wind gusts were estimated to be in the 80 to 120 mph range based on tree damage. This damage is in addition to the tornado that occurred at higher elevations to the southwest of this lower-elevation campground damage and road damage. |
| June 2022 | Tornado (EF2) | Kelly | - | Several months after this event, Bridger Teton National Forest staff reached out to the NWS Riverton office and shared images and helicopter footage of a distinct path of tree damage through a thickly-forested high-elevation area that coincided with a supercell path from June 12, 2022. This area of widespread tree damage was inaccessible and not viewable to the NWS damage survey team that visited the valley nearby immediately following the event.||Post-event interrogation of radar imagery from the event shows a strong rotation couplet above this damage area. After consulting with other Great Plains NWS staff with more than 20 years of tornado-damage-determining experience, this was determined to be tornado damage. The tree fall pattern and path were consistent with strong tornadic rotation. ||The EF2 designation comes from looking at the softwood damage indicator of the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Pictures show thousands of pine trees snapped at various heights, with hardly any trees remaining upright. There was some evidence of debarking in photos as well. For this reason, wind speeds were estimated to be between 128 and 131 mph, based on the upper bound for softwood trunks snapped and the expected damage for softwood debarked. ||Path length and width were determined from polar-orbiting satellite data from the summer months after the event. Notable decreases in vegetation could be seen, with a clearly defined damage path. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grovont | 2.6 miles | 15 | |
| Moose | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Beaver Creek | 7.4 miles | 15 | |
| Teton Village | 11.1 miles | 17 | |
| Elk | 12.0 miles | 16 | |
| Jackson | 12.3 miles | 14 | |
| Moose Wilson Road | 13.5 miles | 17 | |
| Wilson | 15.8 miles | 17 |
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 Kelly | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4451811 | 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 1609183. 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.







