Freeway Quarry

Past Producer in Knox county in Tennessee, United States with commodity Limestone, General
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10075937
MRDS ID W022762
Record type Site
Current site name Freeway Quarry
Related records 10226322

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Centroid
Geographic coordinates: -83.93119, 35.99685 (WGS84)
Relative position Original record had no coordinates, so this was plotted to the middle of the state/county area.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Knox(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Watts Bar Lake(hydrologic unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Knox

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Limestone, General Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore

Nearby scientific data

Centroid (1) -83.93119, 35.99685

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HERSHEY, ROBERT E. AND MAHER, STUART W., 1963, TENNESSEE DIVISION

  • Deposit

    OF GEOLOGY BULLETIN 65, PAGE 168.

  • Deposit

    PROPERTY WAS OPERATED BY LAMBERT BROTHERS DIVISION, VULCAN

  • Deposit

    MATERIALS COMPANY.LIMESTONE WAS QUARRIED FROM THE CAMBRIAN MAYNARDVILLE LIMESTONE AND THE CAMBRIAN COPPER RIDGE DOLOMITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-63 Unknown U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.