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Housing Units (2000): 13306
Land area (2000): 5.945844 sq. miles (15.399664 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.458681 sq. miles (3.777967 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.404525 sq. miles (19.177631 sq. km)
FIPS code: 36550
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 24.559166 N, 81.784031 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Key West
Wikipedia
Key West is an island in the Straits of Florida on the North American continent, at the southernmost tip of the Florida Keys. The island is about from Cuba.
Key West is politically within the limits of the city of Key West, Monroe County, Florida, United States. The city also occupies portions of nearby islands.
The island is about long and wide, with a total land mass of . Duval Street, its famous main street, is a mere in length in its 14-block crossing from the Gulf of Mexico to the Florida Straits/Atlantic Ocean. In the late 1950s, many of the large salt ponds on the eastern side were filled in, nearly doubling the original land mass of the island. The island is in area.
Key West is a 1993 hour long drama television series set in Key West, Florida. Thirteen episodes aired on Fox between January and June 1993. It was created by David Beaird and Allan Marcil. The show was produced by Viacom Productions (now CBS Television Studios).
The main character is Seamus O'Neill, played by Fisher Stevens, a factory worker from New Jersey who dreams of being a writer. When he wins the lottery, he uses his newfound wealth to move to Key West to pursue his writing career, where his idol, Hemingway, had lived. Seamus finds the island inhabited by eccentrics. He takes a job as a reporter for The Meteor, a local newspaper.
In addition to Stevens, Jennifer Tilly, Denise Crosby, and Brian Thompson led the large ensemble cast as the town's high-class prostitute, conservative mayor and eccentric sheriff, respectively.
Key West is an island in the U.S. state of Florida.
Key West may also refer to:
- Key West, Florida, the city that encompasses the island
- Key West International Airport
- Key West, Iowa, an unincorporated village in Dubuque County, Iowa
- Key West, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
- Key West (TV series), a 1993 Fox TV series
- Key West No. 70, Saskatchewan, a rural municipality in Canada
- USS Key West, several ships of the US Navy
- "Key West" (song), a 1978 song by the Village People
Usage examples of "key west".
Then when you get to Key West and you're surrounded by boxes and you want to know where the hell something is, you just have to remember where it used to be.
It looked as if it had been made with girders left over from the Key West bridge.
Trooper Truth essay, he thought it might be a good idea to stop by the Trailways station and get a one-way ticket to Key West, where he had relatives who shared his pirate heritage and would never turn him in to authorities.
What was Captain Albury's destination when he left Key West on the twenty fourth of August?
But he knew he needed a big finish, here, and he'd been working on it since he left Key West.
No joke: A store in Key West had an entire shelf of real shark embryos, bottled like dill pickles.