Marysville is a city in Marion County, Iowa, United States.

[4] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.37 square miles (0.96 km2), all of it land.

[5] There are numerous coal exposures on the banks of the branches of Cedar Creek both north and south of Marysville.

Marysville was officially incorporated as a town in the late 1870s, and by 1910, it had three general stores, a post office, a 4-teacher public school, and telephone service.

[4] A five-foot bed of coal was exposed along North Cedar Creek about 2 miles north of Marysville, and by 1867, several coal banks were open in the Marysville area and Jacob Kline had opened a mine about a mile north of Marysville, where the coal was 10 feet thick.

By 1908, eleven different mines had been worked in the Marysville area, primarily by the Mammoth Vein Coal Company, which took over from the O.K.

The Wabash Railroad built a 7-mile spur line to serve the mines.

[7] The coal camp of Everist, Iowa was located about 2 miles north of Marysville near 41°12′35″N 92°57′40.72″W / 41.20972°N 92.9613111°W / 41.20972; -92.9613111.

Employment in 1914 was seasonal, varying from 90 to 300 men, and the mines at Everist shipped up to 800 carloads of coal per day circa 1914.

[10] Scrip tokens for The Everist Mercantile Co. are occasionally found on the collectors' market.

[11] United Mine Workers local 981 was organized in Everist in 1905; by 1907, it had 480 members.

8.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.