Key West is an unincorporated community in

Dubuque County Dubuque County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 99,266, making it the eighth-most populous county in Iowa. The county seat is Dubuque. The county is named for Julien Dubuque, the first Eur ...

, Iowa, United States, near the extreme southern end of the city of

Dubuque Dubuque (, ) is the county seat of Dubuque County, Iowa, United States, located along the Mississippi River. At the time of the 2020 census, the population of Dubuque was 59,667. The city lies at the junction of Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin, a r ...

. 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. 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
.

History

The town of Key West was settled in 1834, the 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. Key West's population was 56 in 1902, and 52 in 1915. The town was named because it was considered the main egress from Dubuque westward.

Education

St. Joseph School, under the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque, was in Key West.

Notes

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

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{{authority control Unincorporated communities in Dubuque County, Iowa Unincorporated communities in Iowa 1834 establishments in Michigan Territory