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Keokuk
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city in and a county seat of Lee County, Iowa, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Iowa
- County
- Lee
- Incorporated
- December 13, 1848
- Type
- Mayor–council government
- Mayor
- Kathie Mahoney
- Total
- 10.55 sq mi (27.32 km )
- Land
- 9.10 sq mi (23.57 km )
- Water
- 1.45 sq mi (3.75 km )
- Elevation
- 653 ft (199 m)
- Estimate july 1 2023
- 9,513
- Density
- 1,088.0/sq mi (420.08/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 19-40845
- Website
- cityofkeokuk .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Named after
- Keokuk
- Official name
- Keokuk
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Lee County
- Population
- 9900
- Area
- 27.411399
- Elevation
- 174
- Body of water
- Mississippi River
- Capital of
- Lee County
- Official website
- www.cityofkeokuk.org
- Image
- Keokuk iowa.jpg
- Households
- 4630
- Dialing code
- 319
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- Commons category
- Keokuk, Iowa
- topic's main category
- Category:Keokuk, Iowa
- postal code
- 52632
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Keokuk, Iowa
- water as percent of area
- 13.7029
- per capita income
- 24604
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- date of incorporation
- 1848-12-13
- P12749
- Henny Koch
Sources (11)
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Encyclopedic overview
Keokuk /ˈkiːəkʌk/ is a city in and a county seat of Lee County, Iowa, United States. It is Iowa's southernmost city. The population was 9,900 at the time of the 2020 census. The city is named after the Sauk chief Keokuk. It is in the extreme southeast corner of Iowa, where the Des Moines River meets the Mississippi. Keokuk is also the home of Keokuk National Cemetery.
It is at the junction of U.S. Routes 61, 136 and 218. Just across the rivers are the towns of Hamilton and Warsaw, Illinois, and Alexandria, Missouri. Keokuk, along with the city of Fort Madison, is a principal city of the Fort Madison-Keokuk micropolitan area, which includes all of Lee County, Iowa, Hancock County, Illinois and Clark County, Missouri.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Keokuk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.