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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Iowa
- County
- Clayton
- Total
- 1.92 sq mi (4.98 km )
- Land
- 1.86 sq mi (4.81 km )
- Water
- 0.066 sq mi (0.17 km )
- Elevation
- 637 ft (194 m)
- Density
- 231.1/sq mi (89.24/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 19-49620
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Marquette
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Clayton County
- Population
- 429
- Area
- 4.672699
- Elevation
- 191
- Body of water
- Mississippi River
- Image
- Old Pontoon Bridge North McGregor Iowa 1885.JPG
- Households
- 244
- Dialing code
- 563
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- postal code
- 52158
- Commons category
- Marquette, Iowa
- inception
- 1874-01-01
- P8168
- Alexz Johnson
- water as percent of area
- 3.7444
- per capita income
- 26763
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Marquette is a city in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. The population was 429 at the time of the 2020 census, up from 421 in 2000. The city, which is located on the Mississippi River, is named after Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette, who along with Louis Joliet discovered the Mississippi River just southeast of the city on June 17, 1673.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marquette” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.