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Marble, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in North Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72740. It stands on Big Onion Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marble quadrangle.

Marble within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

26 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Marble between 1997 and 2017, burning about 504 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2000Natural4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2012Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 1998Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 June 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 April 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 April 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Marble: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
B.F.Hodges PropertyManganesePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marble in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2013: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1999Flash FloodMarble$80,000A bridge on US Hwy 412 was washed out.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMarble$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous tree limbs.
December 1999Thunderstorm WindMarble$10,000One half of the roof of a double-wide trailer was blown off by thunderstorm winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMarble-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a few large trees and many large tree limbs.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindMarble-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down several large tree limbs.
June 1997Flash FloodMarble-Thunderstorms during the afternoon of June 29th produced very heavy rainfall which resulted in flash flooding in southern Carroll and northern Madison Counties of northwest Arkansas. 18 inches of gravel were washed out onto State Highway 21 4 miles west of Rudd, and high water covered several county roads near Kingston and Marble.
June 1994HailMarble-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous tree limbs.
March 2013HailMarble-no account filed
April 2002HailMarble-no account filed
May 1998HailMarble-no account filed
April 1996HailMarble-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Purdy3.4 miles12
Truth (historical)3.7 miles12
Old Alabam4.9 miles14
Alabam5.1 miles14
Harmony7.0 miles13
Kingston7.2 miles12
Forum7.4 miles14
Chaplin (historical)7.7 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on MarbleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18352516The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58121. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.