Key West, Iowa

Key West, Iowa
Unincorporated community
Key West Location in Iowa
Coordinates: 42°26′56″N 90°41′02″W / 42.44889°N 90.68389°W / 42.44889; -90.68389Coordinates: 42°26′56″N 90°41′02″W / 42.44889°N 90.68389°W / 42.44889; -90.68389
Country	United States
State	Iowa
County	Dubuque County
Elevation	820 ft (250 m)
Time zone	CST (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
GNIS feature ID	0458063

St. Joseph's Church in Key West

Key West is an unincorporated community in Dubuque County, Iowa, United States, near the extreme southern end of the city of Dubuque.^[1] Parts of the community are now within the city of Dubuque, while others are unincorporated. Owing to the presence of U.S. Highways 151, 61, and 52, and the nearby Dubuque Regional Airport, the area is home to a growing number of businesses. Some of these are high tech companies being built in the Dubuque Technology Park, to the east. Development in the area will likely increase rapidly following the planned construction of the city's Southwest Arterial, an extension of Iowa Highway 32.

The village does have a number of local establishments that allow it to maintain a certain degree of autonomy. It has its own church, St. Joseph's - Key West Catholic Church, a school (Table Mound Elementary), a cemetery (Mt. Olivet), Fire/EMS department, and a hotel (Econo Lodge Inn & Suites^[2]).

The town of Key West, Iowa, was settled in 1834, only a year after Dubuque's founding. There was plenty of timber, prairie land and streams for water in section 12 of Table Mound Township, in Dubuque County, on the road that became the Old Military Road.

The town was named because it was considered the main egress from Dubuque westward.

Notes

Information on Key West's beginnings is from the book My Old Dubuque by Len Kruse

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Municipalities and communities of Dubuque County, Iowa, United States

County seat: Dubuque

Cities	Asbury Balltown Bankston Bernard Cascade‡ Centralia Dubuque Durango Dyersville‡ Epworth Farley Graf Holy Cross Luxemburg New Vienna Peosta Rickardsville Sageville Sherrill Worthington Zwingle‡

Townships	Cascade Center Concord Dodge Dubuque Iowa Jefferson Liberty Mosalem New Wine Peru Prairie Creek Table Mound Taylor Vernon Washington Whitewater

Unincorporated communities	Fillmore Key West

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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