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Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 164
Land area (2000): 0.412108 sq. miles (1.067355 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.412108 sq. miles (1.067355 sq. km)
FIPS code: 65280
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.629770 N, 95.642846 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 51049
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Quimby
Wikipedia
Quimby may refer to:
- Quimby magazine, Boston 1980's alternative arts, comix, culture publication
- Quimby (surname), English surname
- Quimby, Iowa, a small town in the United States
- Quimby (band), a Hungarian alternative rock band
- Mayor Quimby, in the animated TV series The Simpsons
- Quimby the Mouse, a comic strip and character created by Chris Ware
- Quimby Pipe Organs, American company founded 1970
Quimby is an alternative rock band popular on the Hungarian music scene. Enjoying large crowds across the nation, they have had successes at music festivals such as the Sziget Festival. Together for over 25 years, the band has a large collection of studio albums and one live CD/DVD combo to their credit.
Quimby is an English surname derived from a toponym such as Quenby. Notable people with the surname include:
- Darius Quimby (died 1791), first American law enforcement officer killed in line of duty
- Edith Quimby (1891–1982), American medical researcher and physicist
- Fred Quimby (1883–1965), American cartoon producer, best known as a producer of Tom and Jerry cartoons
- Harriet Quimby (1875–1912), the first female pilot in the United States
- Phineas Quimby (1802–1866), a 19th-century American philosopher
- Robert Quimby (born 1976), American astronomer
- Shirley Leon Quimby (1893–1986), American physicist
- William R. "Bill" Quimby (born 1936), American author
Usage examples of "quimby".
Back on the front porch Alda Quimby remained standing as Roberta came out in her dusty uniform.
Roberta scarcely trusted herself to remain on the porch lest she send Alda Quimby bouncing backward down its steps on her know-it-all, highfalutin' ass.
Besides, it's not fair to keep the girls from having fun just because Alda Quimby and her bunch have got hair balls in their craws.
I A A Alda Quimby had annihilated Roberta's wonderful day and changed it from one of exhilaration to one of vexation.
I hear you threw Alda Quimby off your front porch this afternoon, so the battle lines are drawn.
For some reason Roberta failed to fathom, Alda Quimby acted as spokesperson for the board.
At the table up front, Alda Quimby was still trying to keep from looking like a jackass.
All day long at work I was planning how I was going to come home and get all cleaned up the way you like me, then I was going to tell you I'd marry you, only when I got home that Quimby woman was on my porch, and then I never got my bath taken and I never got my hair washed, and now all of this talk about the school board has just robbed this whole night of all its magic.
I did Stratton Mountain and Bromley Mountain, Prospect Rock and Spruce Peak, Baker Peak and Griffith Lake, White Rocks Mountain, Button Hill, Killington Peak, Gifford Woods State Park, Quimby Mountain, Thistle Hill, and finally concluded with a gentle eleven-mile amble from West Hartford to Norwich.