Townhomes for Sale in Kirksville, MO

Legend has it that Kirksville came to be thanks to a turkey dinner and whiskey. Jesse Kirk, the city’s first postmaster, made the offering to surveyors in exchange for naming the city after him in the mid-1800s. Now the county seat of Adair County, Kirksville is home to more than 17,000 residents, a number that has stayed relatively steady since 1980. “People will either move here for work or to retire,” says Elizabeth Gregory, Realtor with Exp Realty, who has lived in the Kirksville area since 1996. “It’s got that small-town feel, but there’s ...