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Welcome to the Kelleys Island Home page. The Kelleys Island Home page provides as much information as possible on Kelleys Island. Knowing Kelleys Island’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Kelleys Island’s Home page, you will also find Kelleys Island’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Kelleys Island has a population of 283. 54.8% of Kelleys Island’s inhabitants are Male, and 45.2 are female. 74.5% of Kelleys Island is married and 93.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $300,547, and the average rent is $850. Household median income in Kelleys Island is $69,500, and the individual median income is $40,417. Kelleys Island’s Ethnic is the following: White(98.2%), Hispanic(4.2%), Multiple(1.8%).


Kelleys Island is heavily forested except for several residential areas, some for year-round residents, others for summer vacationers. Some small farms and a small limestone quarry still operate on the island. Each summer since 1974 (typically in August), the island hosts a weekend-long homecoming festival, which includes a theme parade featuring both locals and vacationers, a picnic, and a number of food and craft booths. Kelleys Island has a cemetery located on Division Street, about a mile north from the center of downtown.


Although the cemetery is relatively small, several hundred people are buried or have memorial headstones there. Burials include that of Datus Kelley.In 1975, 23 acres (9.3 ha) on the island's southern shore were designated as a historic district, the Kelleys Island South Shore District, and added to the National Register of Historic Places.


In 1988, the district was renamed to the Kelleys Island Historic District and expanded to include the entire island.On August 19, 2010, three downtown businesses on Division Street were destroyed after a fire started in the attic of the Country Store. The fire quickly spread from the convenience store where it began to neighboring businesses in the complex: Papa T's Ice Cream Shop and Vi's Island Treasures.


The vinyl siding of the neighboring Island House restaurant partially melted during the event. The Country Store had closed following the summer of 2009, and was vacant at the time of the fire. An Ohio state fire marshal later ruled the blaze had started from a work lamp that was left on in the vacant grocery shop's attic.


The Kelleys Island Volunteer Fire Department of 12 people took approximately 15 minutes to arrive on the scene. 15 to 20 additional firefighters were dispatched from the mainland. No one was injured during the fire, but the entire building had to be razed shortly afterward.


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