A post office called Kiester has been in operation since 1882. The city was named for county judge Jacob Armel Kiester.
A tornado reportedly touched down in the city of Kiester on June 17, 2010. The tornado caused a large amount of destruction, and several homes were damaged. The tornado was later rated EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale after damage assessment was completed.
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This town was organized for civil purposes in 1858. and has kept up its organization to this day. The town of Kiester, then "Lake," was attached to Seely by the special commissioners in 1858 for town purposes, and so remained until set off as a separate town by the county commissioners, January 4th, 1892. On the sixth of March, 1860, the two town districts of "Seely and Kiester" and "Brush Creek and Poster." were consolidated as one town district, by the county board, but this arrangement did not continue a great
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The town of Seely is Congressional townsliip one hundred and one (101) north, of range twenty-five (25) west. The surroundings of this town are as follows: On the north is Brush Creek township, on the east is the town of Kiester, on the sbuth is the Iowa State line, and on the west is the town of Rome. The mean elevation of this town above sea level is eleven hundred and seventy -five feet. A well bored on the southwest quarter of section four, to a depth of one hundred and twenty-three feet, proves the drift here to be about
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