Crestwood, Missouri | |
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City | |
Location of Crestwood, Missouri |
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Coordinates: 38°33′27″N 90°22′34″W / 38.55750°N 90.37611°WCoordinates: 38°33′27″N 90°22′34″W / 38.55750°N 90.37611°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Missouri |
County | St. Louis |
Area | |
• Total | 3.60 sq mi (9.32 km2) |
• Land | 3.60 sq mi (9.32 km2) |
• Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
Elevation | 620 ft (189 m) |
Population (2010) | |
• Total | 11,912 |
• Estimate (2012) | 11,926 |
• Density | 3,308.9/sq mi (1,277.6/km2) |
Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
• Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
ZIP code | 63126 (St. Louis (Sappington)) |
FIPS code | 29-17218 |
GNIS feature ID | 0755941 |
Crestwood is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, part of the Metropolitan Statistical Area known as Greater St. Louis. The population was 11,912 at the 2010 census.
Crestwood is located at 38°33′27″N 90°22′34″W / 38.55750°N 90.37611°W (38.557552, -90.376152).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.60 square miles (9.32 km2), all of it land.
Crestwood is home to several public parks, including Crestwood Park, featuring baseball and soccer fields, a playground, and tennis courts, and Whitecliff Park, featuring the Crestwood Community Center and the Crestwood Aquatic Center, a public water park. Adjacent to Whitecliff Park in the small city of Grantwood Village is the animal reserve owned by Anheuser-Busch called Grant's Farm, which is free and open to the public during the summer. Grant's Farm, now home to free-roaming buffalo, zebras, and deer among other animals, is located on property formerly owned by president Ulysses S. Grant in the period between the Mexican War and the Civil War.