Bussey, Iowa
| Bussey, Iowa | |
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| City | |
 Location of Bussey, Iowa |
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| Coordinates: 41°12′19″N 92°53′7″W / 41.20528°N 92.88528°WCoordinates: 41°12′19″N 92°53′7″W / 41.20528°N 92.88528°W | |
| Country |
 United States
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| State |
 Iowa
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| County | Marion |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.33 sq mi (0.85 km2) |
| • Land | 0.33 sq mi (0.85 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Elevation | 850 ft (259 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 422 |
| • Estimate (2012) | 419 |
| • Density | 1,278.8/sq mi (493.7/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 50044 |
| Area code(s) | 641 |
| FIPS code | 19-09730 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0455013 |
Bussey is a city in Marion County, Iowa, United States. The population was 422 at the 2010 census.
Bussey is located at 41°12′19″N 92°53′7″W / 41.20528°N 92.88528°W (41.205164, -92.885341).
The local High School is Twin Cedars HS According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.33 square miles (0.85 km2), all of it land.
Jesse Bussey, originally from Greene County, Pennsylvania, bought the land for the town of Bussey in 1867. He laid out the town of Bussey on the line of the Albia, Knoxville and Des Moines Railroad in 1875, the same year the line was acquired by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Mr Bussey went into the lumber and grain business there. By 1880, the population was close to 100, with four general merchandise stores and one drug store. The town was incorporated in 1895. There were some problems with the initial incorporation, so a second vote was held in 1899, after which James Bussey was elected as the first mayor.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there were numerous coal mines in the Bussey area. In the early 1890s, the Powers company had two mine shafts in the area with a private tramway connecting them to the company's tipple along the railroad line. J. A. Powers founded the O.K. Coal Company in bussey, with a mile-long railroad spur to a mine a mile south of town. This mine was the largest producer in Marion County from 1895 to around 1902. Powers reorganized the O.K. company as the Mammoth Vein Coal Company when it moved its primary operations to Everist, a coal camp 3 miles west of Bussey and a mile north of Marysville. The Cricket Coal Company, later the Equality Coal Company, was based in Bussey and had a shaft outside of town, producing 18,000 tons of coal in 1915 from a coal seam that was 4 to 6 feet thick.
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