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Quarries & Quarry Links, Photographs
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(The following list of Kansas quarries is not a complete list of all of the historical quarries in the state, only the ones I have been able to locate. If you know of more historical quarries in Kansas, please contact me. Peggy B. Perazzo)
Use the RootsWeb Town/County search form to find the county for specific Kansas towns.
Kansas Stone Quarries - Active & Abandoned Quarries available on the Kansas Geological Survey “Kansas By County” Data Explorer. (To access the list of active and active stone quarries, choose the county either by the map or list, click on the “Industrial Mineral Producers” section. County Bibliographies and Photo Libraries are also available in the county sections in addition to much more information.)
Active Quarries in Kansas (present-day), listed on Superyellowpages.com.
Allen County, Kansas – Allen County Limestone and Sandstone, from the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, First Biennial Report, Allen County, 1878, presented by Tom and Carolyn Ward on their KSGenWeb Project web site. "Building Stone, etc.: Blue and red limestone and red sandstone, of good quality, abound throughout the county. Every township in the county is well supplied mostly limestone."
Allen County, Kansas - Allen County Industrial Mineral Producers (Active & Abandoned Quarries), Bibliography, Photos, Geologic Map, Bulletin: “Geology, Mineral Resources, and Ground-water Resources of Allen County, Kansas,” & Other Resources. This information is presented by the Kansas Geological Survey. (Scroll down to "Indusrial Mineral Producers" section.)
Allen County, Kansas – Cement Limestone Quarry (photograph)
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Photograph courtesy of Grace Muilenburg, KGS. The source of this material is the Kansas Geological Survey web site at <http://www.kgs.ku.edu/kgs.html>. All Rights Reserved. This photograph is from the Kansas Geological Survey Photo Display System. |
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Allen County, Kansas – Monarch Limestone Quarry (photographs)
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Photograph courtesy of Grace Muilenburg, KGS, July 1969. The source of this material is the Kansas Geological Survey web site at <http://www.kgs.ku.edu/kgs.html>. All Rights Reserved. The following photograph is from the Kansas Geological Survey Photo Display System. |
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Allen County, Kansas – Stone Fence Quarry (photograph)
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Photograph courtesy of Robert Sawin, KGS. The source of this material is the Kansas Geological Survey web site at <http://www.kgs.ku.edu/kgs.html>. All Rights Reserved. The following photograph is from the Kansas Geological Survey Photo Display System. |
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Anderson County, Kansas – Anderson County Limestone and Sandstone, and Whetstone. This material is from the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, First Biennial Report, Anderson County, 1878, presented by Tom and Carolyn Ward on their KSGenWeb Project web site. "Building Stone, etc.: Good building stone abundant and of the best quality, consisting of lime and sandstone, easily obtained, varying from eight to twenty-eight inches thick, and smooth on surface of stratum. There is some shale, an excellent fire-proof stone, used for building furnaces for steam engines. A good quality of whetstone has been found...."
Anderson County, Kansas - Anderson County Industrial Mineral Producers (Active & Abandoned Quarries), Bibliography, Photos, Geologic Map, Bulletin: “Geology, Mineral Resources, and Ground-water Resources of Anderson County, Kansas,” & Other Resources. This information is presented by the Kansas Geological Survey. (Scroll down to the "Industrial Mineral Producers" section.)
The Doran Monument Works was listed as one of the customers of the Mount Brothers of Memphis Missouri, who sold their Air Take-off Device used in carving cemetery stones.
Location of active surface quarry of H. J. Born Stone Company Inc.:
T19S, R6E, Sec. 12, E2, Long: -96.71332, Lat: 38.41326
Cowley County, Kansas – H. J. Born Company Inc. Photographs
Arkansas City Republican, March 12, 1887:
"The Courier says that Chas. J. Lantry of Strong City was there yesterday and expressed the opinion that Winfield was to be the great city of the southwest. That=s (sic) peculiar. Mr. Lantry is a member of the firm of Lantry & Son, Arkansas City, and has now working for him some 30 men in the stone quarries north of the city. Strange that Mr. Lantry invests his money in Arkansas City, when he believes Winfield is going to be such a great town."
[Note: this time Lantry...not Langtry.]
"Beautiful building stone is obtained at the quarry nearby, owned by S. T. Covey, formerly of Arkansas City."
Atchison County, Kansas – Atchison County Sandstone and Limestone. From the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, First Biennial Report, Atchison County, 1878, presented by Tom and Carolyn Ward on their KSGenWeb Project web site. "Building Stone, etc.: Sandstone, white, blue and grey limestone, abound throughout the county...."
Atchison County, Kansas - Atchison County Industrial Mineral Producers (Active & Abandoned Quarries), Bibliography, Photos, Geologic Map, Bulletin: “Geology, Mineral Resources, and Ground-water Resources of Atchison County, Kansas,” & Other Resources. This information is presented by the Kansas Geological Survey. (Scroll down to the “Industrial Mineral Producers” section.)
Barber County, Kansas - Barber County Industrial Mineral Producers (Active & Abandoned Quarries), Bibliography, Photos, Geologic Map, Bulletin: “Geology, Mineral Resources, and Ground-water Resources of Barber County, Kansas,” & Other Resources. This information is presented by the Kansas Geological Survey. (Scroll down to the “Industrial Mineral Producers” section.)
Barbour County, Kansas – Barbour County Sandstone and Limestone. From the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, First Biennial Report, Barbour County, 1878, presented by Tom and Carolyn Ward on their KSGenWeb Project web site. "Building Stone, etc. - Building stone is reported plenty throughout the northwestern portion of the county; said to be of good quality - generally sandstone, but limestone is reported near Sun City...."
Barton County, Kansas - Barton County Industrial Mineral Producers (Active & Abandoned Quarries), Bibliography, Photos, Geologic Map, Bulletin: “Geology, Mineral Resources, and Ground-water Resources of Barton County, Kansas,” & Other Resources. This information is presented by the Kansas Geological Survey. (Scroll down to the “Industrial Mineral Producers” section.)
Barton County, Kansas – Fort Zarah, Kansas, presented by Larry and Carolyn Mix on their Santa Fe Trail Research Site. (Read this article using the link above to find the exact location where the fort once stood, a picture of the fort, and a more detailed story of the events below.)
In February 1865 the Second Colorado Cavalry worked on building the octagonal stone blockhouse. According to this web site, Fort Zarah was abandoned for the first time in April, 1866. The fort was ordered rebuilt and reopened, and "...was rebuilt of 'sandstone with a tin roof' approximately one-half mile north/northwest of the previous location, and was completed in 1867." For the last time Fort Zarah "was finally dismantled and abandoned in December of 1869."
A Kansas Historical Marker located on the grounds of the park called Fort Zarah Park reads: ".The fort was built of sandstone quarried in nearby bluffs. Fort Zarah was successfully defended against an attack by 100 Kiowas on Oct. 2, 1868. It was abandoned in 1869."
The sandstone used to build the fort was "quarried from the bluffs about three miles to the north." The stone was "mostly of a deep purplish brown, varying to a light brown." Mortar was used to set the stones, and the "outer walls were about 16 inches thick, the inner walls one foot."
Beattie, Marshall County, Kansas – Stone Quarries
(history). Stone quarrying early in Beattie's history included these
quarries: The FitzGerald Quarry and the Hawk Quarry. Both building and
bridge stone were taken from the FitzGerald Quarry, and building stone
was taken from the Hawk Quarry. Railroad tracks were built to theses quarries
so that great quantities of stone could be shipped out. Beattie stone
was used in several of the buildings at Kansas State College in Manhattan.
Stone quarried from the FitzGerald Quarry provided stone for the foundations
for buildings in the town and country, and a lot of it went to St. Joseph.
The writer of this article wrote that the material for the web site, which
was much more extensive than what is presented above, was obtained from
An Affair With the Past – From the Otoes to the Astronauts,
by Byron E. and Eulalia T. Guise. (The link from which this information
was obtained is no longer available.
<http://www.marshallco.net/beattie/hisstory2.html>
Beattie, Marshall County, Kansas – Stone Quarries.
The stone quarries were one of the reasons the town of Beattie was located
at that place. Those quarries provided stone for Kansas and Nebraska for
building purposes. In 1949 they were partially abandoned. One of the quarries
was started in 1875 by Mr. FitzGerald on his own farm. (Written by J.
D. Stosz on July 15, 1949.) (The web site from which this information
was obtained is no longer available.)
<http://www.marshallco.net/beattie/map.html>
Beloit (south of), Mitchell County, Kansas – Fenceposts South of Beloit (photograph)
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Photograph courtesy of Grace Muilenburg, KGS, June, 1966. The source of this material is the Kansas Geological Survey web site at <http://www.kgs.ku.edu/kgs.html>. All Rights Reserved. The following photograph is from the Kansas Geological Survey Photo Display System. |
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Bourbon County – Bourbon County Lime and Sandstone. From the Kansas State Board of Agriculture First Biennial Report 1878, presented by Tom and Carolyn Ward on their KSGenWeb Project web site. "Building Stone, etc.- Lime and sandstone of good quality is found in all localities."
Bourbon County, Kansas - Bourbon County Industrial Mineral Producers (Active & Abandoned Quarries), Bibliography, Photos, Geologic Map, Bulletin: “Geology, Mineral Resources, and Ground-water Resources of Bourbon County, Kansas,” & Other Resources. This information is presented by the Kansas Geological Survey. (Scroll down to the “Industrial Mineral Producers” section.)
Bourbon County, Kansas – Bandera Sandstone Quarry
(photographs) Photographs courtesy of Grace Muilenburg. The source of
this material is the Kansas Geological Survey web site at <http://www.kgs.ku.edu/kgs.html>. All Rights Reserved. The following
photographs are from the Kansas Geological
Survey Photo Display System.
Photo captions:
Bourbon County, Kansas – Bandera Sandstone Quarry (detailed photograph of the distribution of the Bandera Shale) The quarry is located near the town of Redfield. The source of this material is the Kansas Geological Survey web site at <http://www.kgs.ku.edu/kgs.html>. All Rights Reserved
Bourbon County, Kansas – Fort Scott Stone (From William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, first published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL, Kansas Collection Books) "An extensive quarry of fine flagging stone is found about five miles west of Fort Scott. This stone exists in layers from two to five inches in thickness, is known as the Fort Scott stone, and is shipped in all directions and as far eastward as St. Louis."
Bourbon County, Kansas – Ft. Scott Cement Quarry (photograph)
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Photograph courtesy of Grace Muilenburg. The source of this material is the Kansas Geological Survey web site at <http://www.kgs.ku.edu/kgs.html>. All Rights Reserved. The following photograph is from the Kansas Geological Survey Photo Display System. |
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Bourbon County, Kansas – the Abandoned Marmaton River Sandstone Quarry, presented by the Kansas Geological Survey, Current Research in Earth Sciences, Bulletin 241, part 2.
Brown County, Kansas – Brown County Limestone. From the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, First Biennial Report, Brown County, 1878, presented by Tom and Carolyn Ward on their KSGenWeb Project web site. "Building Stone, etc. - Abundance of sand and limestone along the banks, north and south, of Pony creek, in Hamlin township, found in inexhaustible quantities near the banks of Walnut, Spring and Mulberry creeks, also Delaware creek, in Walnut township; good quantities near banks of Bunn's creek; good sand and limestone on south fork of Wolf river, also in other portions of Robinson township; limestone found in different portions of Mission township; both sand and limestone are found near all the banks of the streams in Powhattan township."
Brown County, Kansas - Brown County Industrial Mineral Producers (Active & Abandoned Quarries), Bibliography, Photos, Geologic Map, Bulletin: “Geology, Mineral Resources, and Ground-water Resources of Brown County, Kansas,” & Other Resources. This information is presented by the Kansas Geological Survey. (Scroll down to the “Industrial Mineral Producers” section.)
Buffalo (near), Woodson County, Kansas – Micro-Lite Lamproite Quarry, near Buffalo (photograph) Lamproite, a rare (in Kansas) igneous rock is quarried at this location. This material is presented on the GeoKansas Field Trips web site, Kansas Geological Survey.
Burdett, Kansas - the “Lime Kiln Restoration Project,” by the Wet/Dry Routes Chapter of the Santa Fe Trail Burdett, Kansas "1996," on the Santa Fe Trail Research web site, presented by Larry and Carolyn Mix.
Butler County, Kansas - Butler County Industrial Mineral Producers (Active & Abandoned Quarries), Bibliography, Photos, Geologic Map, Bulletin: “Geology, Mineral Resources, and Ground-water Resources of Butler County, Kansas,” & Other Resources. This information is presented by the Kansas Geological Survey. (Scroll down to the “Industrial Mineral Producers” section.)
Cedar Point, Chase County, Kansas - Harshman Construction Company (present-day company), Rt. 1, Cedar Point, Kansas 66843; (316) 274-4377 - Limestone Quarries (The following information is from Kansas Geological Survey, “Industrial Minerals - Chase County; Both Active and Abandoned Quarries.)
Location of active limestone quarries of Harshman Construction Company:
T20S, R7E, Sec. 9, NW, Long: -96.66724, Lat: 38.33002
T20S, R7E, Sec. 4, E2, Long: -96.65797, Lat: 38.34085
Cedron, Lincoln County – Possible Marble Quarry on the land of A. Shriner. From the Lincoln County Beacon, Cedron area news section, Thursday, April 7, 1881. "A. SHRINER says he has a marble quarry upon his place north of town about a mile. We hope this will prove true." (This information was obtained from Gleanings from1881, Lincoln County Kansas, Newspapers (Harvested by Bill and Diana Sowers, Tracee Hamilton and others.)
Chanute (near), Neosho County, Kansas – Ash Grove Quarry near Chanute (photograph)
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Photograph courtesy of Grace Muilenburg. The source of this material is the Kansas Geological Survey web site at <http://www.kgs.ku.edu/kgs.html>. All Rights Reserved. The following photograph is from the Kansas Geological Survey Photo Display System. |
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