Sources & photo credit.

Organization & contact

• City of Keokuk — City Administrator position profile (PDF) (opens a new tab)

  Primary source for the Corps’ river search-and-rescue role.

• KVEC membership application (PDF)

  Restyled from our recovered August 2024 application. The source questions and agreement have been retained.

  Source for volunteer interest areas and the published application process. Email and street address were also confirmed for this website.

• City of Keokuk contact directory (opens a new tab)

  Public safety directory identifying 911 as the emergency contact.

News & history

Source links for incident reporting and historical remembrances are listed in the news and public records archive. Our historical references do not establish current staffing, equipment, training credentials, or availability.

Keokuk river photograph

“Mississippi River Lock and Dam Number 19 near Keokuk Iowa,” United States Geological Survey, 1997. Public domain. The photograph is used as a view of the local riverfront; it does not depict a current KVEC response.

View the photograph and rights information (opens a new tab)

Additional photographs & historic emblem

Our 1993 flood photograph is credited to Ed Vinson. It is used here as a historical image; its copyright is not represented as public domain.

• Lock and Dam 19 aerial — Carol Arney / U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1990 (opens a new tab)

  Public domain. Used in the rotating header.

• Lock and Dam 19 — Peter A. Rathbun / Historic American Engineering Record, 1987 (opens a new tab)

  Public domain. Used on Operations.

The circular historic emblem is a vector reconstruction from the supplied photographs. Header photographs are archival views, not live conditions or images of a current response.

Typography & icons

Public Sans and Barlow Condensed are served through Google Fonts. Icons use Font Awesome Free.

Public safety resources

The water and flood safety page links to U.S. Coast Guard, National Weather Service, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers guidance. Those links identify the source for each precaution.

Safety quiz photographs

Photographs illustrate each topic. The KVEC flood image is historical; none of these images represents a current incident. Images from public agencies do not imply endorsement.

• Emergency preparedness — Red Cross. Public domain. Photograph source
• Fire safety — Oleg Alexandrov. Public domain. Photograph source
• First aid — CDC. Public domain. Photograph source
• Disaster survival — NOAA Photo Library, NOAA Central Library; OAR/ERL/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). Public domain. Photograph source
• Wilderness survival — NPS photo/Dave Bieri. Public domain. Photograph source
• Search & rescue — KVEC website archive supplied by the site owner. Owner-supplied archive photograph. KVEC archive supplied for this website.
• Flood safety — Ed Vinson, 1993; photograph supplied by the site owner. Owner-supplied archive photograph. KVEC archive supplied for this website.

Each quiz includes links to the guidance used to review its answers.

Corrections

For a factual correction or an additional source, email info@emergencycorps.org.

Forms & safety publications

Our 34 forms and guides were redesigned for publication in November 2026. Safety guidance was revised using the primary sources linked in each PDF. The float plan is a KVEC planning form informed by U.S. Coast Guard guidance.

These publications use our custom vector wordmark, Public Sans and Barlow Condensed. Forms can be filled on a device or printed. Membership application instructions explain how to return the application.