BlockKey West, Minnesota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Keystone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56721. The Survey maps it on the Key West quadrangle. It stands 856 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Key West quadrangle1:24000
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Crookston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Key West in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Key West | $5,000 | This tornado snapped the tops off of several ash and cottonwood trees at two farmsteads along its path, and cracked a wooden power pole near its base. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Key West | $500 | A tree was blown down. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Key West | - | Report of power pole down. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Key West | - | Received a public report of 1 inch hail. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Key West | - | A power pole was cracked. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Key West | - | The tornado tracked intermittently for about eight miles, from one mile south-southwest of Key West to around eight miles north of Crookston. Large tree limbs were broken off several trees in shelterbelts and one power pole was cracked near the base. The tornado was viewed as a fairly diffuse and partially rain wrapped funnel with intermittent touchdowns and occasionally lofted debris. Peak winds were estimated at 85 mph. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Key West | - | A roughly half minute of hail left cuts in corn stalks and bean leaves across fields in southern Keystone township. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Key West | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Key West | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Key West | - | 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.
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 Key West | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22060054 | 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 654777. 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.
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.