Jordans Grove, Iowa

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Maine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52214. The Survey maps it on the Prairieburg quadrangle.

Jordans Grove within Linn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1890 USGS Anamosa quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1900 USGS Anamosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1900 USGS Farley quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Prairieburg quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS Dubuque quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Anamosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Jordans Grove: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Edgerly Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Plower Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Central City Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Foy Estate	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hampton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Park Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Waubeek	1.9 miles	14
Central City	3.6 miles	15
Whittier	4.6 miles	14
Rogers	5.1 miles	15
Paris (historical)	5.9 miles	14
Alburnett	6.4 miles	15
Prairieburg	7.0 miles	14
Paris	7.1 miles	15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122557957

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464595. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.