Keota, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lafayette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52248. The Survey maps it on the Keota quadrangle. 897 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 797 feet above sea level.
On record in Keota
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 1 record
C.F. and Mary Singmaster Houselisted 1998
Population over time
2 figuresKeota fell from 1,009 to 897 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 | 1,009 | |
| 2020 | 897 | -112 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Keota quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Muscatine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Keota between 2009 and 2014, burning about 28 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 9.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | IN NE PART OF CEMETARY, KEOTA, IA |
| 6 November 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Keota: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tradewater Shale Exposure | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keota in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2006 | Tornado (F1) | Keota | $25,000 | landspout; rated F1 with winds estimated around 90 mph |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Keota | $5,000 | Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding in Keota, IA during the early morning hours of June 27. Some homes in Keota reported flooded basements. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keota | - | A public report of a 70 MPH wind gust measured in town. The time of the event was estimated using radar. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keota | - | A report of 1 to 2 inch diameter tree branches down reported on Twitter. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keota | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be 70 mph about 5 miles east of Harper, IA around 437 pm June 19. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keota | - | Wind gusts estimated to be 60 to 70 mph were observed in Keota, IA at 305 am August 5. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keota | - | Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew down seven large trees up to 3 feet in diameter in Keota, IA at 305 am August 5. |
| June 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Keota | - | A brief tornado touched down northwest of Keota. The tornado dissipated at 190th Street and County Road G32. No reports of damage or injuries were received. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keota | - | Numerous trees down. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Keota | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talleyrand | 4.8 miles | 7 | |
| Harper | 5.2 miles | 7 | |
| Creswell (historical) | 5.4 miles | 7 | |
| Kinross | 6.9 miles | 7 | |
| South English | 9.5 miles | 7 | |
| Richland | 12.5 miles | 7 | |
| Webster | 12.5 miles | 7 | |
| Lanscaster | 12.7 miles | 7 |
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 Keota | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1929899 | 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 458058. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.




