Keomah Village, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Spring Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52577. The Survey maps it on the University Park quadrangle. 110 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 787 feet above sea level.
On record in Keomah Village
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Lake Keomah State Park, Bathhouse-Lodge Area (Area A)listed 1990 · 0.3 miles away
- Lake Keomah State Park, Erosion Control Area (Area B)listed 1990 · 0.4 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresKeomah Village grew from 84 to 110 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 84 | |
| 2020 | 110 | +26 (+31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS University Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Keomah Village between 2012 and 2017, burning about 202 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Keomah Village: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Clay, Bituminous, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drill Hole | Zinc | Past Producer | Sphalerite | |
| Oskaloosa Clay Products Co. Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Oskaloosa Paving Brick Co. | Clay, Bituminous | Past Producer | ||
| Oskaloosa Mine & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Upton Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exeelsior (historical) | 2.5 miles | 7 | |
| Wright | 2.8 miles | 7 | |
| University Park | 4.3 miles | 7 | |
| Rose Hill | 4.6 miles | 7 | |
| Cedar | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Oskaloosa | 5.7 miles | 7 | |
| Tioga | 6.1 miles | 7 | |
| Fremont | 7.5 miles | 8 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Keomah Village | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1930067 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1699784. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.





