Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Crestwood, MO

Crestwood is a suburban city in Gravois Township, St. Louis County, Missouri, part of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area, with a population of 12,404 at the 2020 census.

The 2020 census counted 5,241 households in Crestwood, with an average household size of 2.5 people.

In 2011, Bloomberg Businessweek magazine named Crestwood the "Best Place to Raise Kids in Missouri."

Crestwood covers just 3.60 square miles, all of it land, in ZIP code 63126, and most of its single-family homes were built in the post-World War II suburban boom of the 1960s.

Crestwood is the final resting place of Sgt. John Sappington, a Revolutionary War soldier who served as George Washington's personal bodyguard at Valley Forge before settling here and fathering 18 children.

The historic Sappington House, the home of one of the area's earliest landowners, still stands in Crestwood as a museum of Americana open to the public.

Crestwood is home to seven public parks: Whitecliff Park, Crestwood Park, Sappington Park, Ferndale Park, Rayburn Park, Sanders Park, and Spellman Park.

Whitecliff Park, the crown jewel of the Crestwood parks system at 85 acres, contains the Crestwood Community Center, the Crestwood Aquatic Center public water park, and the Quarry fishing dock.

Crestwood Park, the city's second-largest park at 21 acres, offers ball and soccer fields, a 9-hole disc golf course, a sledding hill, and a 1.3-mile walking trail.

Crestwood Plaza, which opened on March 21, 1957, was the first major regional mall in the St. Louis area and one of the first shopping malls anywhere to have more than one department store.