Marquisville, Iowa

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Saylor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50313. The Survey maps it on the Des Moines NE quadrangle.

Marquisville within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1905 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:62500
1907 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Des Moines NE quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Marquisville between 2006 and 2015, burning about 21 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
2 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	U.S 20 @ N-57, IA
4 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 February 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Marquisville: 5 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Flagstone, 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
Capitol Hill Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
West Des Moines Plant #8	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Can-Tex Industries West Pit	Clay	Producer
Iowa Clay Pipe Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Berwick Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bowser Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Des Moines North Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Johnston Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Morning Star Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Polk 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
Swanwood	0.7 miles	16
Saylor	0.7 miles	16
Saylor Station	1.7 miles	16
Saylorville	2.2 miles	17
Carney	2.2 miles	16
Norwoodville	2.3 miles	16
Berwick	3.0 miles	16
Oralabor	3.1 miles	16

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 Q122572234

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 458817. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.