Kennedy 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. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10075938
MRDS ID W022763
Record type Site
Current site name Kennedy Quarry
Related records 10226076

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -83.79323, 35.96787 (WGS84)
Elevation 256

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Knox(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Shooks Gap(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower French Broad(hydrologic unit)

French Broad-Holston(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

(1) Holston Formation

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    OF GEOLOGY BULLETIN 65, PAGE 169.

  • Deposit

    PROPERTY WAS OPERATED BY LAMBERT BROTHERS DIVISION, VULCAN

  • Deposit

    MATERIALS COMPANY.LIMESTONE WAS QUARRIED FROM THE ORDOVICIAN CHICKAMAUGA LIMESTONEAND THE ORDOVICIAN MASCOT DOLOMITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1963 Unknown U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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