Highways 151, 61, and 52, and the nearby Dubuque Regional Airport, the area is home to a growing number of businesses.

Development in the area will likely increase rapidly following the planned construction of the city's Southwest Arterial.

The town of Key West was settled in 1834, the year after Dubuque's founding.

[4] St. Joseph School, under the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque, was in Key West.

[5] Information on Key West's beginnings is from the book My Old Dubuque by Len Kruse