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Kirkwood
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suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Missouri
- County
- St. Louis
- Incorporated
- 1865, 1899 (as a 4th-class city), 1930 (as a 3rd-class city), 1984 (as a home rule city)
- Mayor
- Elizabeth Gibbons
- Chief administrative officer
- Russell B. Hawes
- Total
- 9.20 sq mi (23.84 km )
- Land
- 9.18 sq mi (23.78 km )
- Water
- 0.023 sq mi (0.06 km )
- Elevation
- 584 ft (178 m)
- Density
- 3,208.4/sq mi (1,238.78/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 29-39044
- Website
- www.kirkwoodmo.org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Kirkwood
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- St. Louis County
- Population
- 29461
- Area
- 23.818215
- Elevation
- 201
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Official website
- www.kirkwoodmo.org
- Image
- Kirkwood Train Station.jpg
- Households
- 11423
- Dialing code
- 314
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- Commons category
- Kirkwood, Missouri
- different from
- Kirkwood
- inception
- 1853-00-00
- native label
- Kirkwood
- P8168
- 5.45×39mm
- water as percent of area
- 0.4239
- per capita income
- 50386
- P12749
- Fritz Christen
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kirkwood, Missouri
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Encyclopedic overview
Kirkwood is an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis located in western St. Louis County, Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 29,461. Founded in 1853, the city is named after James P. Kirkwood, chief engineer of the Pacific Railroad. It was the first planned suburb located west of the Mississippi River.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kirkwood” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.