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.
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.
Quarry Bridgelisted 1998 · 0.7 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Le Grand quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Marshalltown quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Marshalltown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional 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/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 1959 VINE AVE, MARSHALLTOWN, IA, IOWA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 14 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olson Farm Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ruth Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ash Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Fisher Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Le Grand Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Montour Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Rockton Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| South Le Grand Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2011Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Quarry | $50,000 | Fast moving water flowing down an entire street. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quarry | $40,000 | Semi-truck blown over on Highway 30 near Le Grand. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quarry | - | A personal weather station reported a 92 knot wind gust. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Grand | 1.7 miles | 12 | |
| Predonia (historical) | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Dillon | 3.0 miles | 8 | |
| Rockton | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Wolf Lake Addition | 4.5 miles | 8 | |
| Dunbar | 5.3 miles | 8 | |
| Pickering | 5.3 miles | 8 | |
| Green Mountain | 5.9 miles | 12 |
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 Quarry | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7269197 | 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 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.




