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Quarry, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Le Grand Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50158. It stands on Davisons Creek. The Survey maps it on the Le Grand quadrangle. It stands 892 feet above sea level.

Quarry within Marshall County

On record in Quarry

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Quarry in 2010, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources1959 VINE AVE, MARSHALLTOWN, IA, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Quarry: 12 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Olson Farm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ruth PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ash QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fisher QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Le Grand QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Montour QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rockton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
South Le Grand QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quarry in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014Flash FloodQuarry$50,000Fast moving water flowing down an entire street.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindQuarry$40,000Semi-truck blown over on Highway 30 near Le Grand.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindQuarry-A personal weather station reported a 92 knot wind gust.

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Le Grand1.7 miles12
Predonia (historical)2.6 miles12
Dillon3.0 miles8
Rockton3.0 miles12
Wolf Lake Addition4.5 miles8
Dunbar5.3 miles8
Pickering5.3 miles8
Green Mountain5.9 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on QuarryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7269197The 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 460481. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.